Yes, that's not surprising that there's nuance that does beyond the headline. There always is.

Ironically, it's is more of an argument for them. They were not saying there would be no more updates, be them major or minor to windows, but rather than they wouldn't have "numbers" and transition into more of an OS as a service model.

The market doesn't like the sound of that. That's fine, but it's not like if Microsoft stopped numbering their releases they wouldn't be doing the exact same thing: sunsetting older versions of windows and pushing users towards newer supported versions.

I know some people think they should be able to "buy" an OS and stay on it forever, but the internet has rendered that largely impossible. If you want to air-gap your PC and stay on whatever version of Windows you want, go for it, but as soon as you're connected to the internet, they're doing the right thing trying to push people off of codebases that no longer support an economic case for security updates.

I'm an anglophone. I lived in Quebec for 8 years. I work for a company that is headquartered there. I go there all the time.

This is nothing like what Quebec is doing. Don't be a fucking moron.

if you drop 1000$ on the ground you watch who picks it up and the person who takes it knows it belongs to you and doesn't belong to them, then you're not out of luck .. it's not really a different set of rules. It's unreasonable to expect people to be able to locate a person who left 1000 sitting in the middle of the street who is nowhere to be found, and it's nearly impossible to prove the 1000 another person has is yours after the fact. On the other side, ATMs have multiple layers of logging, computer and paper trails and cameras. It's relatively easy to prove a) who has it now b) that they shouldn't c) that they know they shouldn't d) to whom it belongs

The structure is the easy part. It's a solved problem. These printed homes will be objectively worse to the extent it might not be as easy to maintain them as other pre-fabricated housing, which has existed for decades and is arguably superior to site built--every pre-fab experiences the equivalent of a massive earthquake during transit, so their kind of built for that except for the mating lines; but I digress.

Siting is the hard part. Land cost. Foundation. Hook-ups. That's where it gets really expensive and difficult. Best case scenario for low-cost is flat land in an unpopular rural area with under-subscribed water, sewer, and power; but that only happens because nobody wants to live there in the first place.

A million times this! Not once in the past 20 years have I ever pointed the finger at an image as the reason why a page is bogged down. Since I installed script blocking, slow sites are almost always showing an attempt to access *dozens* of 3rd party domains that I restrict by default. This site? It's only using 2 other domains, fsdn and cloudfront. Slashdot loads just as fast as it always has.

Dark Star was aired on late night TV several times in my teens. We're talking late, late night--after SNL crazy late. Something about being a teenager that makes you want to be up at that hour. I probably never saw the whole thing in one sitting, but I know I got to the end once. I admired the gritty, dirty look of it all vs. the unrealistic cleanliness of 2001 or Star Trek. When the Soviet space station Mir began to age and grow mold I was immediately reminded of it. A space station that was behaving like a rundown trailer meant we had arrived in the world of sci fi--the world predicted by Dark Star.