As an end user, probably nothing.

The article hints at an application appliance with Xen where you build just enough OS to run your program without needing a full OS like NetBSD or Linux. And people like tinkering outside the *nix paradigm - Genode, as it mentions and HURD import various drivers instead of re-inventing the wheel.

FYI it has already been downgraded back to 5.4.5 in Trixie, aka testing.

The version reports as '5.6.1+really5.4.5-1'.

That didn't work for Samsung's Android value-add.

Microsoft are now mandating that everyone go out and buy a new keyboard for an intrusive feature their government has already outlawed.

Well it's unclear why 'Linux' would ever become end of life'd if Google were to upstream any drivers and firmware to kernel.org

Let's assume they go a step further and isolate the ChromeOS-specific bits in a container.

I hear ChromeOS is build on top of a Gentoo derivative. Can't they have an unsupported* Konami code to unlock a minimal Gentoo/Portage environment to upgrade the core OS indefinitely? i.e. stuck on version X of the UI forever but if there's a security bug in the wifi or USB-C controller then it gets automagically patched.

I stopped using Linkedin in earnest even before the MS acquisition when it became less of a platform to network with former colleagues & potential business partners and more for recruitment agency staff to share memes - despite none of these data harvesting vultures ever having placed me in a job via that website.

Recruiters will be posting their travel videos now? They can go fuck themselves.

this is all about Apple's supply chain having the latest bleeding edge release build on a device prior to sale.

As a consumer you'd still have to sync all your apps from the cloud but at least it might save, say, a 200MB download fetching the latest OS updates.

In pondering what would be an appropriate sentence, how do you rehabilitate a 57 year old in 2049 back into civilization? His parents will be well into their 80s, he won't have any friends and at that age no one will hire him even at Starbucks. (sure ---- him but assuming he doesn't have millions stashed in a vault, he becomes a burden on social security)

I understand the anger - the scale of his theft is unfathomable but to me it speaks of a failure of regulation.

How does an American citizen relocate a business to Hong Kong and onto the Bahamas without anyone from Big Government auditing his shady financials? His star only rose in a post Panama Papers world - were US federal agencies napping?

But launching new hardware too. Ship an iPhone 16 globally without any version of iOS installed on the device that only activates on launch date. No leaks to the press and any rogue supply chain employee will just get a brick that won't power on.

Well, here in the southern hemisphere we are celebrating Good Friday eve, where we commemorate the death of the Julian Calendar.

Those who regard the Gregorian Calendar as a heresy won't celebrate until over a month from now.

The last thing we need is another schism. Trust the science!

For work, aside from Office (that would have an ARM64 port), the only 'native' x86 application on Windows 11 I run is 32 bit, unsupported and hasn't been updated for a decade. So as long as the binary translation is capable of emulating with the speed of a Pentium 4, that would suit fine.

Anything other than that uses a mixture of language specific dot net, Java or JS (Electron) VMs - which surely JIT ARM64 natively by now.

But depending on the era of the software, something released in the past 13 years (WIndows RT in 2011) is likely to have been developed with a reasonably modern version of Visual C++ that includes a 'compile for ARM' checkbox with compiler warnings to help you migrate. Not a trivial task by any means but if your vendor is still in business, ask 'em for a recompile!

Gaming, well that's potentially another story but who games on a low performance laptop anyhow? The bigger picture is if and when Qualcomm loses its exclusivity deal with MS and nvidia release a series of Win 11 laptops running Tegra Thor inside - then it really will be game on :)

Google should now get ahead of the curve and release Chrome on Windows 11 on RISC-V!

No such product from Microsoft yet exists, thankfully. :)

Here in Melbourne, yes it's the middle of the night and I can't sleep, Epic Games are currently weaponizing our Australian federal court against Apple and Google.

I'm not sure our kingdom of 27 million has that much global clout in the scheme of things but I guess they'll try it on in every jurisdiction.

Anyway, back to those 'evil' Europeans... They have some tech companies in Volla, HMD, Jolla, Fairphone etc. Use some of that money on alternative ecosystems that aren't reliant on 'the six gatekeepers'.

The press release specifically targets Alphabet for skewing Google's search results. Microsoft *are* mentioned in the brief. But they are better at playing this particular game.

In this instance the EU should be sending a firmly worded warning to Microsoft for default-browser shenanigans.

A word to the EU - propose some guidelines on an AI assistant before it snowballs. Consistency, if they took it to its natural conclusion then every major platform (viz iOS, Windows, Android) should be forced to develop vendor neutral APIs to allow choose which provider has its tentacles deep in the OS.

But preferably, the nuke it from orbit, I don't want to be monetized, uninstall option for none at all, ever. Particularly on corporate Windows 11 desktops where all that AI crap is a potential trade-secret security risk, an antifeature.

Do you like French cinema? There's an up and coming Italian actress who has been cast in a couple of Vince Cassel movies - Monica Bellucci.

In the real world, yes. A couple of weeks ago, a millennial woman at a bar didn't offer her phone number but instead we exchanged Instagram. Young people using technology filter out the serial killers. ... I've never once been asked to exchange Fediverses.