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Comment Re:Stop now (Score 1) 71

yes, actually yes. I would do it differently though, I would use sodium and burn it in water to create the particulate matter, this would accomplish more than one goal, it would block a percentage point of the Solar energy and would percipitate into the ocean water deacidifying it. If done xorrectly, maybe as NaK alloy it can also be used to generate power while burning in water.

Comment Re:Look and feel (Score 1) 92

While I understand your requirements and they do make sense, they are not realistic at this time. The technology is not mature enough for it and will remain not mature enough for quite some time. Hence something has to give. With Linux, you will need to do more system administration and occasionally fix some things manually. The good thing is that things generally stay fixed on Linux. With Windows you will get lack of security, reliability and, more and more, lack of usability. It will also break in new and unexpected ways from time to time.

Pick your poison.

Comment Re: AI (Score 1) 97

True. But cars are strongly regulated, even if often reactively, see, for example, the Tesla "autopilot" kills. A new car has to be fit for use by design or else the maker will get problems. There is no such requirement for Operating Systems and office software and I would argue that Microsoft has stopped being "fit for use" a while ago at least for non-experts.

Comment Interesting times (Score 2) 16

And dangerous for dumb people. Remember that "malware installation" usually means lateral movement and then compromise of the whole organization these days, because AD security sucks and then it is often misconfigured on top of that.

I would not trust this on a hardened Linux with network access. Windows? Do you want to get hacked?

Also note that they only put that in there because the lawyers told them they had to. This means this technology represents a fundamental and systematic novel risk they do NOT have under control. The usual limitations of warranty are not enough. Providing or using this feature will likely fall under gross negligence. Microsoft can get out of the resulting liability by explicitly warning its users that this is not a feature you can use securely and that result quality is very much not ensured. Or in other words, this is a very dangerous toy, not a professional product.

That they feel they need to add a warning with this uncommon level of clarity is very telling. I am sure all the MS fans and all the nil wits will still ignore it. So let me add this, because it will be relevant: We told you so.

Comment Does it run 90% or better of Windows programs? (Score 1) 92

If not, then it's going to remain a niche thing like the HUNDREDS of active linux distros.

Don't get me wrong, for certain things, particularly things that have a person of high computer-literacy to maintain it, some linux is probably great.

OTOH most people and businesses want their computers to serve as tools, not necessarily their "hobby" to constantly futz with. They don't really give much of a shit how much of their meaningless daily work is hoovered up by MS.

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