Please don't, Microsoft, you're enabling a golden age of Linux adoption! Win11 needs more slop, THE INVESTORS COMMAND YOU!

You haven't been to Texas, have you!

Most major city streets in Houston have a speed limit of 45, and traffic actually flows at 55.
Houston freeways have posted speed limits of 60-65, but you'll get run over if you go that slow (outside of rush hour, at least). Even during rush hour, most freeways are heavy, but still flow at high speeds.
Two-lane country highways in Texas typically have posted speed limits of 75.
Some interstate highways in Texas have a posted speed limit of 85.

The thing I don't get about Republican voters, the politically aware of ones not the ones who are just clueless and trying to make it through one more day, the thing I don't get about them is they know that the party they support lies constantly about every single principle day claim to have. I mean Christ Donald Trump literally said out loud that he's going to hell...

And I get all politicians lie and blah blah blah but if they're going to sit there and lie to you about fundamental principles what makes you think that they're going to not fuck you over? What makes you think you're part of the club?

I'm sure there are many reasons people pay for MS Office when Google Docs is free.

Personally, I wanted a real-time cloud backup system, so I chose OneDrive, which costs about the same as other cloud backup systems, and comes with Office thrown in.
Others prefer to have a desktop application; Google Docs has the collaboration, but not the desktop applications.

maybe I'll switch back from Kubuntu. NOT!!!!

I assumed all American high schools had student parking.
How else are the kids going to get to school? Walking or public transport ? hahaha!

Oh yeah, those weird buses painted yellow, with the engine sticking out the front, like on a car. So the kids don't have to mix with public transport like in any other country.

best Norris nerd joke

I wan to be clear this End Times justification for the war isn't some randos talking in the canteen, this message is coming down from the very top. Complaints are like roaches, if you see 200 of them, there are 2,000 instances that went unreported.

Not in the Windows codebase. You'd have to throw a ton of it out. (And your boss wouldn't let you.) That's not just writing code.

She literally calls herself a Zionist extremist. Her actions have been in extreme support of Israel and defense of Trump.

The only thing "liberal" about her is that she's a lesbian but there's plenty of rightwing LGBT people out there.

"Electricity isn't something that needs to be conserved - it's not shipped around the world in any significant quantity and generally is made as it's used"

Wrong

In much of the world the main source of electricity is Natural Gas.
Which is fine if you live in North America, but for EUrope and Asia it has to be imported. Because of damage to the LNG facilities in the Gulf, production won't be back to full capacity for years, even after the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.

They sell porn mags at those weed stores? Or I guess you want to talk about weed now?
If you show your ID and go into a weed store, then purchase some weed, then you then take some weed (or a porn mag) and sit it on your coffee table, it will not ask for age verification before your 12 year old cousin smokes it (or opens the mag).

The adult that purchases the porn mag or weed has to be responsible with it, and not leave it unsecured where an unsupervised 12 year old can get it and look it at or smoke it. Just as the adult that purchases internet access has to be responsible with it and not leave it unsecured where an unsupervised 12 year old can use it inappropriately. And yeah, some people won't be responsible. But we still don't require age verification before weed is smoked or porn mags are viewed.

Although actually, a weed store is not a good analogy for the internet, since there's some things that are appropriate for 12 year olds on the internet, while a weed store only has things that are inappropriate for 12 year olds. A better analogy is the many grocery stores in SanFran that sell alcohol and cigarettes. You have to show ID to purchase alcohol or cigarettes, but not before entering a grocery store that sells them. 12 year olds are allowed in grocery stores, even unsupervised. The bottles of alcohol in the grocery store aren't going to ask for ID if a 12 year old opens one up and starts drinking it. But parents are expected to supervise their children in the grocery store until each child is mature enough that they can be trusted to not drink the alcohol. If a child does drink alcohol in the grocery store, the alcohol (which would be the website in this analogy) isn't blamed, and the alcohol manufacturer (which would be the webmaster this analogy) isn't blamed. Nobody says the grocery store should start requiring IDs before letting anyone in, nobody says bottles of alcohol should start requiring ID before they open. It's that specific child and the parents that are in trouble. The child for drinking the alcohol and the parents for not supervising the child well enough.

But, we've had pretty much this same conversation before, multiple times. I wish Slashdot had a block option.

I mean, we have heard "Security is our highest priority!" twice now, followed by more really bad screw-ups.

Now, I do not know whether they are lying or not when they make these claims. What I do know is that they consistently have failed to deliver on them. And I think they cannot actually deliver, due to severe organizational dysfunction. The only known way to deal with that is to kill the organization and start over and Microsoft will not add a new possibility to the records.

And here I thought that 'AI' was supposed to be leading to a flowering of specialized-for-purpose software that would previously have been infeasible to build due to resource constraints; but one of the most heavily capitalized outfits in the bubble can't cope with a chromium reskin and a couple of electron apps?

This radio thing was just a fad.

Yeah, there is probably something specific about it, like there are network shares on the system or whatever.

The point is, software programmed by one guy in Croatia performs literally the exact same task around 1000X faster.

That isn't something wrong with my system. It's something wrong with their software. Because whatever "The Problem" with my system is (very likely something perfectly normal but slightly out of the ordinary), Explorer should be able to handle it easily rather than choking for literal minutes.

Again, we KNOW this is not impossible because other, very similar, software performs well in the exact same situation.

weird take

LNG is not just used directly for energy.

It is an input to urea production. As in fertilizer. As in a major farming input.

So you can thank Mr. Peace President for you impending food bill, too.

"that makes it illegal - because one guy and his clown posse say so"
no fan of Trump but he's far from alone among world leaders. Xi & Modi can & have done even worse.

OK, racist.

Kate Brown is solidly conservative. Just not an extremist about it.

I have the same issue on a couple of folders. There are some large exe files in there (downloaded installers) and the explorer window doesn't even show the directory contents for about 2-3 minutes. I'm only running Windows Defender, no 3rd party AV, so something in Windows is taking an absolute age to analyse those files *every time I view that folder*

Yes, the same dipshit that calls himself the peace president and minces around talking about redoing the drapes like a pantomime suburban housewife.

(Can you imagine what fun the press would have had with a President Hillary going on about the drapes?)

And then goes on to be a trashy asshole to the Japanese PM. Although that could "just" be dementia-driven disinhibition instead of intentional. And when he's gone, remember that this is what Republicans value - this incompetent, boorish, demented piece of trash. And why? Because he is hurting people they resent slightly more than he is hurting them, and they're willing to burn the constitution to do it.