I am not sure you would want to be Gates right now, with the leaks coming and his links to he who did not kill himself... that's before we start on the dodgy b and m g foundation and it's funding and fraud and ultimate responsibility for the current crises and profiting from them massively. Who do you think funds the world economic forum, communist think tank for globalist communism? Lol are you a troll?

If your hobby is stealing drones which you can't openly fly, and which cannot be sold except maybe cheaply for parts, then you are probably doing it to annoy or destroy the MegaCorp. In which case, destroying said drones would be more cost effective and less time consuming for you...

Rust isn't better for anything, it's a childish scripting language with functions for everything and the kitchen sink, and it performs worse than Visual Basic. Name something for which it is needed other than lining the pockets of IT companies. Nothing worthwhile is written first in Rust and it's just another buzzword used to sell services and server rental, not a practical choice for development. It's worse than PHP, even.

So this is a great opportunity for the Linux Distros to prepare for and run a campaign to "Switch to Linux!" Seriously, this is a huge opportunity, and my guess is that it may be wasted.

What the distros should do to do it right:

* Advertise as "Easy, safe and powerful alternative for your existing PC. No hardware upgrade necessary!"
* Provide the tools to easily move your Windows data over, connect to the most popular cloud services.
* Distros should offer a familiar themed desktop experience, if desired. (XP, 7, 10, 11 styles, etc.)
* Someone should make a "Compatibility checker" for windows, that looks at your current hardware/software and explains the conversion. (i.e.: Your model of printer will work but only using a USB connection. Etc.)

No, young whippersnapper, that was an ad hominem... clouds = don't fly, read a basic course, thanks for playing...

"teh", a condescending use of a mispelling of the word, "the", coined by some hacker somewhere taking the piss out of someone spouting nonsense about their expert field... (sic)

You can have as many "drone transponders" as you like, grey clouds create kilowatts of broadband electrical interference, and anybody who is qualified to fly anything, including drones, knows this. It's a given.

Expect radio silence and false readings from any and all types of navigational equipment when flying in teh clouds, end of story.

I am liking your thoughts and wish to subscribe to your newletter.

I enclose two pounds coins, taped the form as requested. For obvious reasons, the delivery address is a PO Box, no doubt they will take those away soon....

You're likely correct, but the one case I could see where "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" for Linux does makes sense is if Microsoft was trying to protect their Windows desktop marketshare. They did make about $22 Billion on windows sales last year.

I just have to wonder... Is this Linux being accepted as a valid desktop operating system, or is this an attempt to prevent it from being the next big Windows competitor?

I'm not saying it is either, just that this does feel like the old "Embrace and Extend".

No, he clearly means a Finger-Longener...

What, you have a FQDN TL domain name running on ipv6? I have 2 fixed ipv4 addresses, and two of those are at the back end of the D class, 253 and 254, for ns1.domain.net and ns2.domain.net. How do you manage subdomains? Are you lying? ipv6 isn't useful for anything other than corporate and government spying interests, the internet of things is intended to be Skynet but it's crap, it doesn't compel people to buy into it. LOL!

Thats something the torrent cant do!

I am the AMOLED vampire.

I have cashed in on mucho damaged hardware, I have noticed that these gorgeous expensive Samsung 8.4" and larger AMOLED displays crack very easily, and people don't want them!

On most examples of these cracked displays, which I have bought very cheaply, you cannot see the cracks when the display is functioning in indoor or dark conditions, and AMOLED can be permanently prevented from burn-in by running at 10 to 20 percent brightness (again, gorgeous indoors).

I currently have a Windows 10 12" machine, 1 crack, 80 pound(!), and 4 10.5" Android AMOLED's cracked and uncracked all identical when turned on, and 4 8.4" Android AMOLED tabs, it's a portable supercomputer and a many camera streaming studio, and it was very very cheap! I even have another 8 inch one which is so smashed as to be ugly, but makes for perfect reading in the dark, or map usage!!

You haven't lived until you've read a great book in green text on inky black AMOLED in pitch darkness when that AMOLED book cost you 30 pounds!!

Thank you, my post was far from serious. I liked the meme showing bankers, stock exchange, computers on one side and "1 boat" on the other side.