Well, you can always run GNU Hurd. Which, as we all know, is superior to Linux in every way, except for practical ones.

It is a bit of both. They develop a tool with the goal of collecting as much data as possible. And if they happen to "catch" some medical data, I guess they do not mind.

Samsung has been consistently cheating for a very long time, and that is well known.

Yes, they do make nice shiny devices, but no, you should never trust them.

The new hardware requirement is really the main obstacle for Windows 11. I am looking after 5 laptops, and only the crappy one (a basic dell for lockdown) supports Windows 11. Windows 11 itself is not bad, although it is annoying that it is slightly slower than Windows 10.

Buying a new laptop for Windows 11 is just not on, especially if you want a decent laptop (hi-pdi screen, decent RAM, discrete graphics etc).

They lied for sure, but what was the purpose? Were they just ideologues? Was it a political fight between droplet and airborne disease specialists? Did somebody want to hurt mask manufacturers?

I struggle to construct any credible motive.

> We even knew that the original SARS coronavirus spread airborne. We knew that since at least 2004.

Exactly. When the WHO said that "there is no evidence that SARS2 is airborne", they were bending the truth quite a bit. There was plenty of evidence from SARS1, and it was rather stupid to assume that SARS2 would be completely different.

> Even if the WHO wasn't saying it was airborne, it seems like most of the Asian countries considered it to be.

Yes, the Asian countries ignored the WHO, and used their experience of SARS1. And that worked much better than anything the western countries did.

Correct, the evidence was there very early, but it was systematically suppressed and ignored.

A simple N95 mask for every person could have made a massive difference to the early course of the pandemic. (Omicron is something else, and it seems to just happen no matter what you do. Some think it is the most infectious disease ever.)

I agree, the assessment is very generous. They were pigheaded ignorants, completely ignoring the overwhelming evidence that COVID-19 is air-born. And the data was there right from the start: N95 masks as used in intensive medicine were over 99% effective in preventing infections, while surgical masks were only somewhere around 70% effective, and home-made masks more around 50%. The difference cannot be explained if COVID-19 is not air-born.

This whole process has exposed massive weaknesses at both the WHO and the CDC. I think they need to be scrapped and rebuilt - I don't think there is any other way to fix those institutions. The mistakes made were absolutely inexcusable.

Turbines run on just about anything that burns. You can even run them on coal dust - try that with a Diesel engine.

> The forged legal requests are believed to be sent via hacked email domains belonging to law enforcement agencies in multiple countries.

So they are in some ways genuine requests, at least they are genuinely from the police IT system. The real breach seems to be the police, and maybe we need to put a bit more security in place.

I don't think it is better for an area to be plastered with bricks compared to turned into a lake. At least the lake is an important ecosystem, while bricks that are being moved around are not a good habitat.

> The article and its headline are badly expressed

I would argue that the article is ok, but the headline is just wrong. It says the exact opposite of what it should be saying.

Now I have heard that headlines are written by AI now to "maximise exposure", so maybe that is intentional.

This is Slashdot. Fake News For Nerds.

Actually, 10 minutes late.

Slashdot, yesterday's news for nerds. Usually wrong, late, misleading, or all of the above. With extra spelling mistakes.