...slightly used politicians...
I doubt there are any such things. Most politicians range from "heavily used" to "ridden hard and put up wet" to "broken down ol' hags."
But love the phrase!
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> 3, Find post telling you to add some magic gibberish to a config file / install a specific version of xyz.libIsn't that Linux in general?
It's certainly about how 90% of production systems run.
You are correct, of course, but I think the OP was implying that this is not what is supposed to happen, but likely will happen if this, or any other mythological immutable system doesn't quite get it immediately out of the tin. Not having to add such "magic gibberish" is sort of the holy grail here (it could certainly herald The Real Year of the Linux DesktopTM), and if managing such systems deteriorates into having to mumble magic incantations to a file whose name starts with a dot, this would be an Epic Fail.
And then, I'll compile my own FF without their crap if I damn well please. Let them prosecute me for enabling my own privacy.
Of course that's an option (for the literati, at least). But, so what happens if a browser developer decides to raise a middle finger to the spooks, and continues to protect the integrity of the 'net (such as is possible)? Are they going to get hauled into court in Brussels and fined the typical wrist slap tech companies typically get assessed? Is even that going to happen? And how is it that Brussels can demand browsers work the way they want when the browsers in question are being run in Topeka, Kansas? (I've heard lots of grumbling -- and rightly so -- from Right Pondians about USAians trying to enforce their laws Over There. Seems like this is the Pot calling the Kettle black, so to speak.)
Don't know the weight of the stones browser makers have, but perhaps some good ol' (tech) civil disobedience is called for here.
I'd take the 'under' on that bet. First, Micros~1 would have to (tacitly) admit that their Holier-than-thou Millennial-infested "user-experience" thing that continues to foist unneeded and unwanted UI changes upon us "just because", is more holey than Holy. Second, Teams is their X, so they will continue to follow their oh-so-successful IE playbook for that one. And there is still the problem of TPM, which they will similarly not back away from. So from an odds-making point of view, I see this happening about as likely as me winning the lottery. Twice. On the same day. With two different sets of numbers.
As well as dropping official support for Python 3.7, Microsoft also pushed out an update to the debugger extension – now renamed to "Python Debugger" – to include a setting to allow users to only step through their own code or hop into system or third-party library code without having to fiddle with the launch.json settings.
So they have just now implemented something that PyCharm has had for (at least) 5 years now. That's rather slow, even for Micros~1's standards.
Wait! What did I just say there? "Micros~1 standards"?!? Jeez, I'm slipping; everyone knows that's an oxymoron of the first order. Must...find...medication....
However, there are no guarantees that something won't go wrong without official support.
There are no guarantees something won't go wrong with official support. In fact, it is actually more likely that something will go wrong if Micros~1 puts their hands on (or even near) it.
Richard, your shilling for Micros~1 is become more blatant (and more obvious) with every article you've written recently. You really ought to put the Kool-Aid down, before you hurt yourself.
Tell me, does anyone here actually believe that MS will really pull the plug of W10 in two years time?
/me raises hand.
As, from all indications, Win11 is the camel's nose under the tent for their eventual full migration to the "clowd" and a subscription model, of course they will not hesitate to "pull the plug" on any and everything prior. I mean, we can't let recalcitrant "users" with the need to actually get work done get in the way of Our Secret Plan for World Domination, now can we?
Speaking just for myself, there are 2 killer features missing.
And those two "killer features" are.... Wait! I used to know them...they're right here on the tip of my tongue! Yeah, it's been awhile, but sheesh! I should know these by heart! Uhhhh, let me get back to on that, 'K?
From the article:
However, while Windows 11 itself is not much of a carrot, the impending demise of Windows 10 is undoubtedly a stick, [...].Hardware makers are, unsurprisingly, pretty happy about the impending demise of Windows 10.
"Demise"? As in, it will suddenly go away or stop working at Micros~1's whim and wish?? Not hardly (as legions of Reg commentards will happily attest). Yes, you may not have your work interrupted with Micros~1 suddenly deciding that now would be a really good time to summarily stop whatever you're doing and boot your machine to accept their latest pile of semi-functional drivel. But your machine, its contents, and, significantly, its OS, will continue to function quite nicely beyond October of 2025, thankyewverramuch!
And you, Richard -- shame on you for equating the end of Micros~1 "support" to an extinction-level event. I know that media types are somehow honor-bound to parrot manufacturer's drivel from time to time, but this is El Reg, dammit, and I'd have expected better.
From the article:
Infamously, Microsoft axed support for a raft of hardware with Windows 11, including older Intel CPUs, on security grounds. The result was that hardware that will run Windows 10 perfectly well will not accept the new operating system. And this is not due to performance problems (who remembers trying to run Vista on XP hardware?) but rather because of Microsoft's edict.
What I wanna know is: Who remembers trying to run Vista?
The mind is a wonderful thing; it does a good job of suppressing memories of traumatizing or extremely unpleasant events....
If an "activist" investor thinks it can run the business it should take it over completely and prove it.
There is actually a precedent for that. Karl Ichan(fuckupanycompanyanywhere) thought he could do a better job running an airline than those who actually could, so he took over TWA and ran it (or tried to). It did not end well...TWA went bankrupt with 3 years, and is now a legendary "fallen flag" in that industry.
Get your cards ready, mates, for this toothsome morsel that could only come for the orifice of a practiced financial parasite:
"When combining the opportunity to rationalize certain Technology and Development expenses with other growth and margin improvement opportunities, we believe GoDaddy should commit to delivering a growth and profitability metric of at least 40 percent by the end of 2024. This goal would position GoDaddy to be in line with peers' targets on a similar timeframe."
Somebody call a Waaah-mbulance!
"Unfortunately, despite each of these opportunities remaining, over the last 18 months we have been disappointed by GoDaddy's operational, financial and stock price performance," the letter adds.
Take your "disappointment" and shove up your ass/arse, you parasite! Or better still, how about you be so disappointed that you sell your shares and leave your disappointment behind, so that adults can continue to run this company successfully.
"Starboard Blue", eh? Dumbasses, everybody who has even the slightest marine experience knows that starboard is green!
Microsoft had an opportunity to do a good thing with printing, but they chose not to. [...]
Not so much chose not to, but more like were incapable of doing so. The myth that Micros~1 was this engineering powerhouse has recently been exposed as the lie that it is, but it has been a myth for decades. The fact that printing is soooo messed up on Windows machines today is simply a reflection of the fact that those asshats simply don't know how to do it, and haven't know for basically forever.
I actually used this once at my daughter's house, which is connected via Alexa -- inadvertently of course, as I was explaining the comic. You should have seen the panicked look on daughter's and son-in-law's faces as they scrambled to tell Alexa to ignore last request. /me was all smiles....
Are you assuming that regulators are scared of companies they are supposed to regulate? They need to be "emboldened"? Oh...
Oh, stop it already! Meta's approach (as correctly pointed out above) is taken straight from the NRA playbook. And regulators do count on precedent before they make moves (if that were not the case, then the NRA scorched earth approach would be a dismal failure, and they would have been bankrupt fighting litigation on 51 fronts. (OK, 48...it's not likely that Alabama, Mississippi, or Montana would ever do anything to regulate firearms...but I digress).
So the never ending march toward the monopolist's Total Lock-in continues, unabated.
At least, the Marketing Dept. is still being funded, with the same assclowns running the asylum. Witness:
Microsoft would much rather developers used something a bit more modern instead – Microsoft Graph [...]
I guess, in a sense, lock-in is "modern".
Yeah, the quote came from the article, not from Micros~1 Marketing...directly. I doubt that Mr. Speed would make the determination of modern-ity without some...er, prompting.
Yes, and TL;DR, but how much are these fines different from the standard "cost of doing business"? From what I have read (mostly here on El Reg) for a given company, the fines are indistinguishable from CoDB.
"No officer's bonus or shareholder's dividend were harmed in the paying of this fine."