Has MS tried turning them off-and-on again?
Well, appears they got as far as turning it off, but they are really struggling to turn anyone on these days.
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When it's discovered a large proportion of the public have adopted an unhealthy lifestyle or relationship with a product which continues to be profitable.
Much the same was done about the increase in the grossly overweight, the labels were changed so those affected could feel better about their problem and continue to spend.
Conspiracy to defraud the public purse or somesuch, (IANAL).
What with plagues, retreat of the ignorant masses to superstition and science denial, flat earths and entrenched political divides, we're already halfway back to the medieval, what's another fraudster trying to sell 'London bridge' a dozen times.
Excellent idea
Get them down to 'fly on the wall' size, and I'm sure they'll fly off the shelves, especially to cater to invasion of privacy, not just home invasion. Secret Police states like North Korea, upskirt and toilet cam fan regions like South Korea.....
...waiter, waiter. There's a spy cam drone in my soup.
It's plausible.
But MS will want Linux running ontop of something to which a licence fee is payable to Microsoft, not a Windows layer ontop of Linux - which would way too optional to many.
It's why we have the Linux subsystem for Windows, the IT answer to building a cathedral on a wet cardboard box.
It's tempting to think if they were intent on switching to a linux base, they'd be working instead on their own Wine-alike - then again - that'd be rather community minded - easier to port their own programs than cater for a platform they were dumping
I'd have to agree with A/C above
We all knew the World-beating non-conforming, privacy invading, data slurping NHS-X app was going to be a shitshow, but Westminster refused to admit their key tool for contact tracing was broken until last minute then declared it wasn't important anyway.
Do you really want a BoJo, a Cummings, a Corbyn*, a Gove, a Rees-Mogg or any of the rest of the rogues gallery running the internet in the UK?
They'll get back to trying to 'think of children' by trying to block adult material/gather a register of people wanting to access it for what's left of the UK by that time sooner or later. Whenever they've got brexit done/suffiiciently gotten the media to 'move on' from whatever other shit-show they've made of some other minor crisis and can't find anything else to break or fuck up.
"shouldn't be allowed to do anything inconsistent with that without adult intervention anyway."
And how do you prove it's an adult doing the intervening?
Not logging your CC number with apple at all sounds like a pretty responsible (and presumably adult) decision to me....
But, I suppose from apples perspective, not wishing to shower apple with more money must be the indicative of a dangerously irresponsible individual.
This entire case seems to back that up.
I fervently believe that gui development has been horrifically backsliding over the last few decades, with developers apparently more obsessed with what they can take out to make the thing look nicer, than what they should put in to make it work better.
Couldn't agree more - I see a lot of forum threads all over descend into arguments over the minutiae of proposed spacing regimes - and this on modern ui layouts which appear more blank space than content.
Even more ironic in that it was MS in the person of Gates who resisted the WWW until it was top big for even them to ignore.
After which point, they did their best to give the impression it was invented at Microsoft, or at the very least that they had a important role in it's creation and direction.
I'm sure it was also said about the languages of many Native peoples' subjugated by various flavors of Anglosaxons.
True, but I recall being inflicted with certain Northern Irish Politicians attempting to speak Irish.
As to street signs and other language demands - you don't see Trekkies demand that Klingon also be added...
Douglas Adams got it right - "To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."
Frank Herbert wrote in (can't recall if it was in 'Chapterhouse Dune') that 'Power attracts the corruptible'
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
As I was told it, most of the variety in KFC is just down to frying temperature.
First KFC franchise to open in my home town got closed rather quickly due to selling rather raw chicken (Kentucky Raw chicken?).
This was early 1990s. We had to wait another ten years for another to open.
I can hardly believe so many actually bothered to complain over a slogan they'd have heard for decades, and that during normal times they'd have logically realised was not meant to be taken too literally. Such people need to be noted. Any future police state, they'll be the first to report former friends and neighbours for anything.
"you only have yourself to blame"
Or in this case, Adobe to blame.
What I can't understand, is why in the name of all the gods of information technology, was an Adobe update even touching a data directory?
The 'app' can't have been saving peoples files by default under the software directory, can it? Keeping software and data separate seems elementary.
You are delusional.
Microsfoot are desperately trying to increase the chances that on adoption, Linux can be run on top of a Windows Licence.
They have little interest in pushing users onto Linux on a nice stable non-licence paying base that doesn't want to restart a couple of times every time you want to do anything.
It's Linux that needs nVidia, not vice versa.
Why would Linux <u>need</u> Nvidia?
They are holding back wayland adoption.
When they stop supporting their older cards, Nouveau isn't going to be much help because of signed firmware on recent cards.
They keep promising to sort it out, but nothing comes of it.
Nvidia cards are not good value for money for linux users.
the targeted promotions are for items I buy regularly, and would buy even if they were not discounted.
Sounds a little like Amazon marketing strategy - you buy a fridge freezer after a day or two of perusing, and the next month you are bombarded by fridge freezer ads online, because they think you have a fridge fetish, or maybe a lot of bodies to store.