Funny thing, Montana is a big grain-producing state, and we have possibly the most unpredictable, and definitely the most absurdly-variable climate in North America.
https://montanakids.com/facts_...
Oh, and we also grow potatoes, but only in very limited areas (potatoes need more predictable conditions), whereas grain is grown here pretty much anywhere the ground is near enough to level.
I don't know about real Macs, but I have a Hackintosh that's
If a version of OSX however-many-years-old is that bad with 8GB, I can't imagine current-OSX being pleasant.
What I've noticed more than that... over the past year or so, a vast uptick in the number of auto-generated videos. These drag together a lot of readily-available text and images on the nominal topic, so pass for "real" -- but the giveaway is that the narrator is text-to-speech, not a human. (It'll make mistakes like saying "one, six hundred" for "1,600".)
All such channels I've encountered have MILLIONS of subscribers, MILLIONS of rapidly-acquired views, but very few comments. (Like, 12M views in a week, but only 30 comments.)
I've concluded that these videos exist so that the channel owner can use another bot to generate millions of views and a whole lot of the shared ad revenue.
Which is probably starting to bleed Youtube beyond what they're used to.
And yes, probably because of the high view counts, those channels occasionally dominate my recommends (which are otherwise pretty good).
Remembering that in the business world, "unsupported" can translate to "legally liable" in the event something goes seriously wrong.
I have a houseful of PCs, but only one will officially run Win11 -- a low-powered netbook that ironically is the least competent hardware I own (its horsepower is on par with my laptop from 2003). I'll give it this -- Win11 does a good job of downshifting to match the environment it finds itself in; Win10 would struggle on that netbook.
Which desktops did you try, and what issues blew it for you?
I had a hard time finding a linux I could live with, and I first started looking over 25 years ago. It's only been about six years now since it's become sufficiently stable and complete. And implementations vary wildly. I prefer the KDE desktop as being the most functional (and least annoying), but KDE on Kubuntu is not nearly as slick as KDE on PCLinuxOS.
But at the far end, IMO current Gnome makes Win10 look stellar.... good gods, who thought a cellphone makes a good desktop??
Oh, the story has one good function. It points up how in isolation, such metrics are garbage.
Otherwise.... what you said.
XP64 here. Same philosophy. Block the garbage, don't be stupid, glory in my lack of visitors, and remember that attack vectors are mostly discovered by reverse-engineering the patches. No patches, way fewer clues.
Whatever small risks are well offset by an OS that doesn't continually make me long to reach through my monitor and throttle a UI developer.
California brings water from a lot farther than that -- the Aqueduct runs about 500 miles to service Los Angeles. (And has turned the formerly-lush Owens Valley into a desert.)
Destroying the first dam was environmentally catastrophic, and produced a massive fish kill. Ooops.
All that, but I suspect the real issue is that freight is a lot more profitable in that hold than is baggage, so they're trying to reduce the amount of baggage by charging it out of existence.
No one gets 45 years for smuggling drugs, or for that matter, for smuggling live bodies. If you look at the list of charges, they're a damned long stretch, making it sound like he was a massive smuggling op, not someone who had the wrong tank in the back of his truck.
If you move your household from Mexico to Arizona and bring along your fridge, have you committed a crime?
Question: could this update also have affected other programs running on Windows? Saw complaint elsewhere about some irreplaceable legacy software that just now stopped working, following a Windows update (presumably Win10) -- and that seems a bit too coincidental.
Classic Shell still works in 10 and 11.
So does WinAero Tweaker (and is the easy way to get your 11 context menu back; it's the first thing you see when you run it).
True. But it used to be more or less assumed that if you did the stupid, you paid a penalty and learned better. (Bet you never touched another hot stove. And learned a valuable lesson about impulse control.) Now we're protected from the penalty, so there's no downside to stupid, so there's a perception that we must be protected from stupid...
It used to be normal to learn, quite young, that some stuff was not ours to fuck with. We could look at it, maybe (depending) handle it, but it was not to be eaten, played with, dismantled, or anything else. We were then trusted to have the sense the gods gave a turnip, and abide by those rules. I expect the teaching and the trust are much the same element.
Even dumb kids learned that much, so I won't buy that kids have declined so much that they can't understand the rules.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
