So is he a writer, per-se? I kind of assume all those books with his name on it are completely ghost written. Given how he doesn't watch the shows, now I wonder if he even reads the books he supposedly wrote.

You know what is not there any more? The option to show all taskbar icons all the time. Now Win11 will force-hide icons into that stupid submenu all the time. And anytime something updates it manages to get shoved back into that submenu. Incredibly annoying. My belief is this is because it conflicts with their center-the-taskbar-to-look-like-Mac-dock design. Same reason window icons are forcibly collapsed into a single icon with dot underneath (hmm where have i seen this before...)

HR dept BS is the real problem. HR people are completely gaming the hiring websites. Posting fake jobs listings, and ghosting people is so common now it's considered "normal". It is just plain unprofessional, unethical behavior. I have absolutely zero sympathy when HR itself inevitably gets booted to the curb. For the aspiring grad my advice would be to do a MS with thesis with a good professor. This will get you "in" with the professors network of contacts and likely bypass the HR BS entirely.

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

Embrace and extend is their signature move. Now they will be like the Huffington Post of game store fronts. Add in some targeted ads, some telemetry, some superflous AI nonsense. Just think of the possibilities. I wonder if they will even have an indicator of which library a game is from.

I have a merchant services account through First Data and I get emails from at least 8 different domains, have disparate logins on another 6 or so domains, all of which require password changes every 90 days, there are at least a dozen different numbers to call depending on what kind of help you might need if something isn't working.

On top of that, they're still sending statements to an old business address I left in 2016 and they can't seem to figure out how to change it to the address I've been at for the last 9 years.

Gibberish app launch from worst managed monopoly in history of america. Good job guys!

Biden and Obama went after conservative non-profits for having a political disagreement with their agenda. Biden also pressured social media sites to censor information and people they didn't like. Biden had the FBI raid Trump for having classified documents at home even though Biden himself was guilty of the same thing (this isn't me supporting Trump, I despise him). There is all the scandal surrounding Hunter, both here in the US and abroad, and the things that Biden did to protect his son while harming American citizens and our interests abroad. You have the aftermath of Kabul, undermining of railroad workers, his extremely broad pardons protecting people that caused harm to Americans, etc.

I know, you'll hand wave all of that away, because he's on your team... but he has decades of displaying his authoritarian biases and hating Americans that he doesn't like (including blacks, Indians, gays, etc).

So, care to tell me how you missed the hundreds of stories of governmental abuse posted on slashdot in the last 25 years and think it just started under Trump? At least be honest and consistent with yourself.

You don't know about internment camps, seriously? You don't care about due process (I hope you aren't opposing the removal of undocumented people without due process if killing them is ok)?

They've all been spying on us for decades. The breadth of that spying has only broadened thanks to an increase in technological capability, not a change in desire. Obama and Biden both targeted individuals and groups they politically disagreed with as well. It has escalated under every single President, regardless of party (because they're all authoritarians regardless of their rhetoric).

If you haven't seen it, it's because you intentionally haven't wanted to see it. It's been right here on slashdot going back to the 90s. If you cared, you'd go educate yourself on the matter instead of claiming ignorance.

Woodrow Wilson (internment camps)

FDR (internment camps, destroying food during the Great Depression)

J Edgar Hoover, Eisenhower, JFK, RFK, LBJ, etc (COINTELPRO)

GHWB (Ruby Ridge)

Bill Clinton (Waco, Elian Gonzalez, clipper chip)

GWB (PATRIOT Act, Total Information Awareness)

Obama (droning American citizens)

How young and/or sheltered are you that you never suspected anyone of doing it while it's been happening and making the news for decades? This is just a quick list off the top of my head. We can get into the whole NSA/Snowden thing, the Utah data center, wiretapping everyone, ECHELON, Five Eyes, ALPRs, etc, all of which made headlines on Slashdot itself (and with a 6 digit UID, I assume you've been here for it).

If you think this is unique to Trump and he's the only one acting like a dictator, your political bias is showing.

thank you for a little bit of sanity -- this is quickly becoming a site for midwits its so sad

are you fucking stupid??????????? this is a massive problem for FOSS. Acting like "annoying users" is the problem is 90% of the real problem that no one actually listens to us maintainers.

The annoying thing with Windows is that Microsoft doesn't improve the OS for the benefit of its users, it "improves" it for the benefit of itself. Users (its "customers" really) are just pawns to be monetized. This is a fundamental cultural thing. I don't forsee them changing it, not unless their self-centered philosophy hits their bottom line too much (as happened with Win8). Even then the course correction was minor - they still managed to push people off Win7 onto the telemetry heavy Win10, while also pushing unrequested BS like Onedrive and Office subscriptions.

With the Win11 push I am exploring a different route. I decided to virtualize my Win10 PC and run it on top of a Linux host (Manjaro). I managed to image the Win10 PC into a qcow2 file, setup a VM, and surprisingly got the Win10 key to accept this as a "hardware change". To keep some performance I installed a 2nd GPU for looking-glass and maxxed the ram (128GB DDR4 - not too expensive - I imagine people will be dumping used DDR4 soon). This virtual setup runs quite well - when the VM is full screen it is indistinguishable from a Win10-only PC.

But the real purpose of this experiment is software - how much Win software do I really run. Interestingly, games are the least trouble to run on Linux (I don't play MMOs, yes I am aware of anti-cheat topics). Literally every single thing I've run off Steam works perfectly fine. Web browser, Youtube, all run fine. At least mostly - I have found Firefox after being up for a few days and having multiple Youtube tabs open will start to lag and act strange - not exactly a memory leak (nothing obvious on btop), and after restarting it runs fine again.

The actual hangups I have found are 1) Fusion360 - I don't think this runs on Wine or has native linux and 2) Portable apps. I make heavy use of USB Portableapps setup - while many Portableapps have native linux versions, they are - not portable. I did try using Wine in combination with the Portableapps exe files, but that was a failure. I don't know if there is a native-linux equivalent of Portableapps, but if so that would reduce my Windows usage to basically only Fusion. And I am OK running Fusion in a Win10 setup indefinitely if needed. Although being tax-season I can forsee other things like tax software being a problem. The experiment remains on-going.

Unfortunately while I can do all these modifications on a desktop PC, I expect the laptops in our house will simply end up on Win11 (or abandoned due to old hardware).

they can't even be bothered to not fake the citations so idk why you'd read this drivel https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586...

The "current crisis" is manufactured and amplified externally. Nobody is doxxing Tesla owners with maps using Molotov cocktails as map cursors or burning lots full of vehicles in for service in some way that is a function of whether Musk is personally present on the factory floor vs doing something else he thinks is vital to our economic survival. All of it is ginned up hate based on the politics surrounding the pruning of vast left slush funds and debt-funded waste that has to go away. That's an entire industry with vested interests, and acting against it certainly brings out the coordinated hate, attacks on stock value, media smearing, and of course thousands of people who now say he's a nazi though they can't actually articulate why they think that.

No, him being "on the factory floor" or off it doesn't precipitate some "current crisis," except in the sense that entrenched interests currently having their oxen gored by drying up things like the NGO money laundering industry are doing their best to try to wreck the company to make a point.