To be fair, if any other country tried to tell the US to be less greedy they would immediately be labeled as 'commies' and forcibly sent back home.

Not so easy once your kids have friends and school in Seattle.

Will you continue that stance if you're invaded? Remember war is tribalism at a fundamental level. It's easy to think you're above it when you're not affected by it.

I don't think he's getting money. I think he's laundering money.

Not really. What is unprecedented is a call for support for an OS that is not in any way in a long term support contract for over 10 years. You don't get this anywhere else. Heck for the most popular desktop Linux you get 9 months of support. MONTHS! Not even a year. And consumers do not usually seek out LTS releases.

The fact that a future version finally mandates hardware level security (the last consumer OS to do so, and I remind you it's no the 90s, we're in the world of OS acting as passkeys for external services) isn't artificial obsolescence, it's trying to force the one thing Slashdotters have been calling for for years: improved security.

It will not do so in the slightest. Governments are wholly unaffected by this, they are already running Windows 11, or they have LTS agreements in place. And they really don't care much what consumers do with their hardware.

This is the problem with your logic. We're here many years later. What was an antitrust issue in 1995 is now an expected minimum feature. Consumers expect that on a freshly installed PC the vendor provides an internet browser. Also no it's not more difficult to install a browser. Unless you mean clicking a single button (you can't auto default a browser, but you can automatically bring up the window for the user to click on your browser) is "difficult". I don't know anyone who uses Edge, and I know a lot of computer users who metaphorically couldn't tie their own digital shoelaces.

Your post is another typical case of Slashdot being out of touch with reality.

Most people buy a PC and never want to think about it again until it doesn't turn on or boot up one day

Slashdot logic: Microsoft doesn't take security seriously!
Microsoft: we'll re-design our security infrastructure from the ground up including hardware hardening and yeah we may be the last consumer OS to do so but we're finally improving security.
Slashdot logic:

Honestly everyone here is a whiney bitch.

You can't fail a demo due to a bug in the product if the product is working perfectly. He should accept the failure with more grace ala BSOD on Windows 95 when Bill Gates plugged a plug and pray printer in, rather than gaslighting everyone.

You are referring to knowing the difference between shared pointers and unique pointers. That's the only way to screw it up. Yes, if you confuse a unique pointer for a shared pointer you screw it up. But if you don't know that one fact then you have no business coding C++ at all, especially since it is usually just a matter of sticking to using shared pointers all the time.

Wake me up when Qt is memory safe.

And if those fast food restaurants don't have people to hire, they will take other measures. They will close down the dining room and become drive through only before paying students a fair wage able to afford a full term of school or whatever.

*Looks awkwardly at the title of this story*

Everything we've ever created is "such a hack". It's the application of physics in ways to solve a problem. EAMR is no more a hack than changing the magnetic head orientation is. Or changing the size of the write head, or the material of the platter, or making heads aerodynamic. It's just engineering.

Based on the number of incredibly stupid posts we see online I don't see how you could give your fellow countrymen that benefit of doubt. No there's waaaay too many people who actually believe the shit they say. You don't need to fake an election when you have a dumb populace.

And by dumb I mean people who shout "Lock her up" in 2016 and yet vote for Trump in 2024. I mean people who are still looking for Hunter Biden's laptop. I mean people like at the top of this page, someone who claims that the Democrats banned several books, none of which were banned and all of which are still available.

The alternate reality is weird, and half the population seem to live in it.

Precisely none of those books were ever banned.

Be a better and more intelligent person.