No, we're blaming Microsoft for using a data field from the network ecosystem that is plainly, demonstrably NOT reliable, but treating it as sufficiently trustworthy that their time-verification system is fragging system clock settings without warning because of it.
Also we have movie sign, try to keep up.

So let me get this straight.
For seven - possibly eight - years, Microsoft has been setting, as default, a function which relies on specific snippets of outside information from a network ecosystem. Despite the published standard invovled, it's also *well known* common practice that in some cases, those data snippets are deliberately randomized garbage data.
It is also now fairly well documented that in certain cases, using those randomized values in the now-default function can result in the OS autonomously setting the system time to wildly incorrect values with cascading problematic consequences.
Microsoft designed the feature, has a reasonable responsibility to be aware of the de facto forms of the data they're utilizing, decided to make this feature enabled by default, has been informed of the flaws in practice their feature has displayed, and has left it there for seven - possibly eight - years.

But it's not Microsoft's fault.

Uh huh.
But this is somehow not

...nope, it's been pretty plug-and-go. Even with stuff that isn't officially supported. I used the "Add a non-Steam game" option to install and run a bunch of Windows games from CD, and except for one or two unusual games that I (rightly) suspected on the front end might be tempermental (one was MechWarrior 3, which was optimized within an inch of not working even in 1999), it was seamless and painless. Actually less hassle than they were originally on Win98 or XP, in some cases.
I was a diehard daily Windows user for 25 years, and I thought trying to run games on Linux was gonna hurt. It has actually been easier.

I've got Metro Exodus running great on Debian 11.
My buddy has Atomic Heart running FANTASTIC on Ubuntu.

Want to try again?

I have been blown away by how painless the switch from Win7 to Debian was for me getting my games to run. I'd originally put SteamOS on a spare machine I picked up on FB marketplace, just to tinker with it, and got hooked. When I built a new machine I went directly to Debian 10 and thought I would have a nightmare getting stuff to run - and I worked in game dev for about 15 years, so I'm used to wrangling with broken and/or stubborn games.

Every single game I have wanted to play, I have been able to get running through WINE, Proton, or a WINE frontend like PlayOnLinux or Lutris. In fact, I even got zBrush running and it works fantastic; it's not supposed to even do that. Literally the only program I have not been able to get running on Linux in any way, shape or form, has been 3dsmax.

I've gotten everything from MechWarrior 2 (1995) and System Shock (1999) to Metro Exodus and other current games working great. I've been amazed at how smooth the user experience is for it compared to what I'd heard online; I even convinced my wife to go to Zorin instead of Win10 when she had to upgrade, and she's really liked it.

With Steam Client support sunsetting for Win 7/8 soon, honestly, the simplest route to a bunch of older Windows games is going to be... WINE and Proton.

Answer: they only lie.

If this isn't proof to everybody that the Beijing State is an existential threat to humanity, I don't know what is. The Beijing State Must Fall.

"State separation enables faster updates and a more secure platform via read-only partitions that are inaccessible to the user and third-party apps, just like on iPadOS or Android."

You mean the devices that don't actually let you control your devices because the OS is locked off in a part of storage that you can't access without root, which you can't get without probably bricking the device?

You are not doing a goddamn thing to my box that makes part of it inaccessible to me. Hard no.

After 25 years of being strictly a Windows user, my last MS OS was Win7 and now it's going to stay that way even if you put a gun to my head. I don't even like my Android phone at this point because of the hard partition setup. Once it's a little more mature I'm probably going PinePhone.

I'm still amazed that people are talking about TikTok as a technology or a company or something. They're completely, maybe willfully, blind to the reality of it.

TikTok is a weapon. It operates under the direct and total control of the Chinese Communist Party, and its algorithms and policies and the second-order effects of those things are aimed towards advancing the goals of the CCP. They would not tolerate its existence in any other case.

The algorithmic disparities between the Chinese mainland version of the app and the version in western nations is well-documented and extreme. Anybody with access to both installs can see it for themselves. The mainland Chinese version serves up wholesome and intriguing subjects and topics, like science, space, engineering, art, and other enriching content.
The Western userbase gets brain rot and socially-destructive memes like eating tide pods. Again, TikTok is a curated algorithm. The userbase is getting those because those at the levers of the program consciously want that content aimed at that audience.

That is as clear an example of a socially weaponized piece of software as you're likely to get.

Talking about "should we regulate TikTok?" or "should we teach kids how to be smarter about TikTok?" is approaching it as if it is something like Facebook or Google. But you don't talk that way, with those mindsets, about a gun that is actively and literally being used to shoot you. And that is what TikTok fundamentally is.

I'm not sure we have laws for conspiracy and malicious deception on that scale. Can we just hang the board of directors?

No.

They're tasty.

Covid has already been documented to cause exacerbated brain aging, and not in good ways. It's also well documented at this point to frequently cause damage that is disturbingly similar to various forms of dementia, and may or may not be degenerative.

So let's hope we have enough collective sanity and intelligence left to find a cure for neurodegenerative dementia before so many of us have neurodegenerative dementia that society implodes.

Animal protein is a cornerstone of people's diets in every corner of the world. Vegetarianism, much less ideological veganism, is a significant outlier and not even nutritionally feasible for everyone.

Threaten people's food and they will take it as the threat it is and respond appropriately. The only one who will be shocked at the result is you.

...they will swing from lampposts. In the BEST case scenario.

Livestock has been a fundamental part of human civilization at all levels since before the written word. It is still an absolutely critical part of the food supply for people around the world at every level of technology and national development. You cannot change that in any meaningful way with a top down mandate.
There is literally no justification to seriously disrupt that vital part of the food supply that the general populace will accept from global elites in expensive suits who fly around on private jets. The commoners will start taking "EAT THE RICH" very seriously.

The fact that entire blog articles have been written about this, asking "why?" when it should be a blatantly obvious axiom, is mind-boggling.

That is the most euphemistic description of a brutal, lopsided military conquest and subsequent ethnic cleansing & population replacement campaign I think I've ever read. Even Himmler and Stalin didn't stretch fhat far trying to gaslight others that their genocides were "well akchually" good. Damn dude.

Does Xi pay you by the post, or by cubic inches of lies?