I'm not sure where to start with this train wreck of a reaponse...

Blantly copying others isn't revolutionary, no matter how hard you want it to be.

Windows 10 was on ARM in 2017, Ubuntu first supported it in 2009. MacOS started using ARM in 2020. I'm not talking about things like Raspberry Pi. I'm also not going into other Linux distros having already supported ARM. These would be some of the major alternatives to macOS which were already using ARM years before Apple.

"power comparable (not to mention better) than any PC mobile-class chip were absolutely new when they made the switch." Where the hell did this come from? I was talking about how others were using ARM years before Apple. This has nothing to do with anything. Your benchmarking comments is just as off topic, we arent talking about x86-64. Small jumps in specs aren't revolutionary when they are using the same common architecture as everyone else has already been using/supporting.

ARM is an acronym, an it stands for "Advance RISC Machines", though the A originally stood for Acorn. So yes, it would be capitalized.

I'm not even going to bother with the rest of your rambling, which most is just repeating what was already quickly disproven.

You entire post reply is lazy, bad, sad, and some of the worst trolling I've seen in years here on Slashdot. Try harder next time.

That would be like saying when Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel CPU is was revolutionary. Switching CPU architecture to a different common CPU architecture isn't what I'd call "revolutionary".

ARM chips weren't new when they made the switch, other desktop OSes were already running on ARM by that point. Now, if they had suddenly come out with MacOS on something new like a quantum CPU, then we'd be talking.

It's quaint that you think the United States is still a republic. It's a monarchy, and Trump's handlers are likely moving currently to make sure that when Vance succeeds him, that the Executive branch and a Congress that will be, through the use of naked force if necessary, remain filled with Republican paper tigers to complement the paper tigers in the Supreme Court, settles into the oligarchy the Framers always really intended it to be. The military will largely be used to recreate the American hemispheric hegemony. The National Guard and ICE will be used as foot soldiers within the US to "secure" elections.

The morons that elected that diseased wicked and demented man have destroyed whatever the hell America was. As a Canadian, I can only hope we can withstand this hemispheric dominance and the raiding of our natural resources to feed the perverse desires of the child molesters, rapists, racists and psychopaths that have already taken control of the US.

Doubtless, I will be downvoted by the remaining MAGA crowd here. You know, the guys that pretended they refused to vote Democrat because Bernie wasn't made leader, but are to a man a pack of Brown Shirts eagerly awaiting the time when they imagine they can take part in the defenestration of American society.

Win9x and Win2k (and the other NT descendants) are fundamentally different operating systems. In general, NT had a much more robust kernel, so system panics were and remain mainly hardware issues, or, particularly in the old days, dodgy drivers (which is just another form of hardware issue). I've seen plenty of panics on *nix systems and Windows systems, and I'd say probably 90-95% were all hardware failures, mainly RAM, but on a few occasions something wrong with the CPU itself or with other critical hardware like storage device hardware. There were quite a few very iffy IDE cards back in the day.

The other category of failure, various kinds of memory overruns, have all but disappeared now as memory management, both on the silicon and in kernels, have radically improved. So I'd say these are pretty much extinct, except maybe in some very edge cases, where I'd argue someone is disabling protections or breaking rules to eke out some imagined extra benefit.

Perhaps you should just grow up.

I can find any that will be supported for longer though. Macs on average are supported for 7-8 years.

You think people complaining about Windows 10 computers were "only" supported for 10+ years will end up being perfectly fine when they realize that Apple supports their devices for years less?

Too bad Apple didn't with China and caved in.

If someone is dressed up in a Batman suit, more people will assume that it's being recorded and will also more likely be posted online. If they will be recorded and posted online, then people will "behave" better for fear of repercussions.

It's like that old study about what was the ideal lighting that will get workers to work harder. In the end, it wasn't the lighting that made them work harder, it was the constant monitoring that was known that their bosses would see that made them work harder.

We know it weakly interacts electromagnetically, which means one of the ways in which it is posited planets form, initially via electrostatic attraction of dust particles, isn't likely to work. This means dark matter will be less "clumpy" and more diffuse, and less likely to create denser conglomerations that could lead to stellar and planetary formation.

What this finding does suggest, if it holds true, is that some form of supersymmetry, as an extension fo the Standard Model is true. Experiments over the last 10-15 years have heavily constrained the masses and energy levels of any supersymmetry model, so it would appear that if this is the case, it's going to require returning to a model that some physicists had started to abandon.

Without knowing precisely how Explorer is structured, it's conceivable that there may be different dynamically-linked libraries and/or execution points for running the desktop and for the file explorer, in which case just having explorer.exe running in and of itself doesn't mean that new modules have to be loaded if explorer.exe process fires up. The solution could very well be to load the libraries involved in file browsing when the desktop opens.

Just guessing here. There was a time when there was a lot more horsepower required for GUI elements than folder browsing, but this is 2025, and explorer.exe probably uses orders of a magnitude more resources now than it did in 1995, because... well, who knows really. Probably to sell more ads and load up more data to their AI.

That, on modern hardware, they have to preload a fucking file browser so that it pops up faster is just an indication of what a steaming pile of garbage MS is. They had sweet spots with Win2k-WinXP and with Win7, but their incoherent need to be a whole bunch of contradictory things --- with AI! has led what was a rather iffy OS and UI experience to begin with to become a cluster fuck of incoherence.

I do most of my day to day work on MacOS and Gnome, and fortunately the Terminal services version I have to RDP into is Server 2016, but every time I have to work with Windows 11 I'm just stunned by just how awful it looks and how badly it behaves.

According to the link you posted, Device support (patches) has little to do with it. It was only for 13% of people.

"What Are the Main Reasons for Replacing a Smartphone?
According to Joint Research Centre (JRC) research, aesthetic obsolescence is the primary (47%) reason to upgrade a device. Trends in the industry are evolving quickly, causing devices to go out of style.

The second most common (40%) reason to change a smartphone to the newer option is technical obsolescence. These devices don't fit consumer needs due to poor performance or breakages. Although some of them are too old to be repaired, the lifespan of the majority of these devices can be prolonged.

The least widespread (13%) reason is functional obsolescence. Usually, that happens with very old smartphone models that are incompatible with the latest updates of operating systems or appsâ€"for example, Apple maintains a list of obsolete and vintage smartphones that tracks such models."

The capacity of the government of a large jurisdiction like California, or more particularly the US, could bankrupt someone like Musk, so I say, bring it on. Within a decade Musk would have abandoned all efforts, or, even better, be stone cold broke (frankly billionaires shouldn't exist at all, and we should tax the living fuck out of them down to their last $200 million).

We're too afraid of these modern day Bond villains when we should be aiming every financial, and probably every real, cannon straight at them and putting them in a sense of mortal danger every minute of their waking lives, so that they literally piss themselves in terror at the though that "we the people" might decide to wipe them out for good.

Use KDE Connect.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html

It allows you to send any file wirelessly from any device to any device. Android to iPhone, iPhone to Linux, Windows to Windows, etc...

These are normal in the EU. You end up either asking someone who works there to open the gate or until someone else leaves.
They aren't fun, but aren't new either.