in anticipation of fees to be earned from class action lawsuits. Win or lose these parasites will come out on top.

Because Microsoft will just allow Windows access from a thin client to an Azure (or what it will be called then) server that provides your personal Windows instance that you'll pay $563/month for in currency of today, miss one payment and you'll lose all your data.

That's more a Broadcom issue than a Linux issue.

On my case it's older Logitech equipment that's quirky.

Then it's 2026... it's always next year.

Zorin has been featured here on Slashdot a few times before, and this initiated my interest.

The strong UI resemblance to Windows would make the change smooth for people used to Windows, and this is important since I plan to transit my 80+ year old parents to Linux by using Zorin from them having been on Windows 7 so far.

> The failure of successive COPs to agree to get rid of fossil fuels means that this is going to become necessary

Nobody believes this anymore.

Global temperatures are cyclical and the current trend is very close to the normal periodic cycle. All the "models" have failed. Sure, 95% of "Climate Scientists" believe their funding should continue but the jig is up.

If they actually attempt to blot out the sun there is no limit to what normal thinking people will do to stop them.

Fortunately they are very unlikely to get any real support for this harebrained scheme.

The Grand Canal of China is 1776 km. California Aqueduct is 640 km. Los Angeles Aqueduct is 375 km. Rasht known as the "City of Rain" (Shahr-e BÄrÄn) is about 300 km from Tehran. Start digging the aqueduct!

Dark Energy is to explain an observed effect, so it might be that our perspective is insufficient.

I think that the best marketing comes from Microsoft rendering older fully functional hardware unusable and with the overreach by adding ads, requiring M$ account and forcing bitlocker just tipped the scale.

Zorin is based on Ubuntu too, and that means that if it works there it works with Zorin too.

Why is it more cost effective to build a new Capitol than to build a water pipeline?

I saw that it existed and I wanted to try it and it was a good Windows substitute.

And it's on a USB stick, and I have installed it on multiple machines already.

The readings are downloaded frequently and have a granularity of less than a day. So if your electricity usage suddenly drops this can be noticed.

All it takes is a sysadmin type under financial pressure (divorce, gambling debts, medical bills, ...) who needs cash. S/he will be prey to crooks who can get them to do some SQL queries, or similar, to identify usage drops and pass them to the crooks - these addresses are prolly empty as the inhabitant may be away on holiday -- a great place to send a burglar.

They could largely fix this by putting a two week delay before meter readings are uploaded. They will not.

Kyiv, not Kiev.