With Windows 11, there will be much more being added. If people where smart they would upgrade to Linux or a BSD and save the $ they would spend on a new device.

My main device is a Thinkpad W541, released in 2015. It is as fast as just about any newer Laptop. There is no real reason to buy new unless your device has a CPU board issue. Or maybe you need a better GPU for graphics. In that case maybe a desktop would be better so you can replace the GPU easily.

Thanks to the brilliant Climate Regulation changes by Trump, this will not happen. he assures us. How do we know ? Climate Stats where eliminated, that means the Average Temp will never change. /s

Thanks Trump

This is called "winning".

They want to be Nvidia, I think Intel wants to lock-down their GPU and follow Nvidia's lead.

Right now, Intel's Video works great on the *BSDs, so my guess their someday new GPU will be locked-down just like Nvidia. If that happens, *BSDs will probably be SOL, especially OpenBSD.

BTW, I wish Linux would follow OpenBSD's lead when it comes to Nvidia, if they did we would not be seeing this. But Linux is now owned by the corporate world and does not care if the blobs they need to use could have hidden code that breaks your privacy.

Who believes this ?

I am on a 10 year old Laptop running Slackware. It is fast and very useful. I would say no one would see a speed difference between my system and any new Laptop. Maybe heavy GPU gamers might see some difference.

Me, I am looking forward to very cheap used laptops :)

We already have one, "Real ID". The only question is when will this ID will be used a "show me your papers" the US had fought against in the past.

No, last I heard (today), China and ByteDance did not agree with this yet. It could very well be Trump talking out of his a**, which we all know he does a lot.

There was a very old SF short story about a Robot Pope, I forgot its title but it was a good story.

Glad I did not buy the "Edge is great" posts I have seen, but to be fair there were only a very few of them. That means I never install that on my Linux system.

I still use Firefox, and a big warning to Mozilla. If you put this in Firefox, you will loose your last remaining market you are a player in, Linux and *BSD. I will use dillo 100% of the time before I deal with anything associated with AI.

Hoping I never have to use Wayland. But I expect the only GUI app I use, Firefox, will force Wayland upon us in a year or 2. Hoping I am wrong. If that does happen, I might as well go to a MAC or Windows /s since Linux will reach its goal, being a windows clone. Hoping the other browsers stick with X11.

To me, Wayland is a power grab by Red Hat similar to systemd. But IBM being IBM, I can see IBM defunding Wayland as they have done with many other things. One can hope :) I wonder if a systemd defunding occurred by IBM and that is why LP left for Microsoft.

Do not know why you were down-voted. But you can create a fake gmail/yahoo/whatever account for one/short time use. Encrypt your article and name it article.doc then email it. Plus all communication is sent as attachments as a fake doc too.

This will make people think it is a word doc and if they cannot "open" it they may think it is corrupted document and move on.

Are you dense or a fossil fuel shill ?

It is the speed of the warming, not the fact warming is happening. There is no question CO2 emissions from Fossil Fuel use is causing this crisis.

Also, the sun "warming" has absolutely no impact on the Earth in any measurable amount. After millions of years the sun will have some impact, not after 100 years. Earth's tilt has a greater impact and that tilt changes over many thousands of years, over 100 years, no impact at all.

Yes and no, I was at Lotus. Microsoft told Lotus that DOS and Windows is dead. M/S said you should develop for OS/2. Lotus being a small company focused on OS/2 and from what I remember, their 123 fo OS/2 was quite good.

During that time, Microsoft was enhancing Excel and Word for Windows/Windows 95, pretty much ignoring OS/2. When Windows 95 was released, M/S had Excel ready for use with Windows 95. Lotus had nothing. So the hype around W95 killed Lotus lead in spreadsheets. IIRC, it too an additional year for Lotus to have something for W95. The same move by M/S probably killed of Word Perfect too.

I wonder if this means they will stop providing 32 bit binaries only, but you can still compile it yourself. Or are they going to start using 64 bit only statements.

NetBSD and Slackware still compiles Firefox for their 32 bit systems. Will that be able to will continue ? OpenBSD dropped Firefox of i386 a release or 2 ago. FreeBSD is dropping 32 bit support, so a non-issue there.

Interesting, hopefully this can be found in other areas. Where this was found, that area enough fresh water. The only issue is water treatment. Many places need to build more treatment plants. So, the expense of getting it for the NE US is not really worth it at this point.

Now, the southwest US, or other such areas, this water would be a big help. But I wonder if the water is in that area because the Atlantic is spreading, where in the SW with subduction, this could be hard find.

I know little about geology, so my guess could be 100% crazy :)