I maintain Windows for my elderly parents, in their 80s, and begrudgingly made the jump to Windows 11, since they kept being forced down the upgrade path anyway and reverting to 10 was a pain. The computer is their lifeline to society, and they're not about to learn a new OS. If you're in a similar situation, here are a few things I've found. Please read and understand the source before doing anything.

* If installing Windows 11, use this Autounattend.xml script to automatically create a local account and not pester you to create Microsoft account. Just copy it to the root of bootable USB-stick created with the Windows Media Creation Tool.
* This same script will bypass the Windows TPM check, so if you get a "hardware not compatible" message, this'll ignore it.
* You can also open up PowerShell as an admin on Win 10 or 11. This will add the registry key to stop you from being pestered to create an MSFT account:

New-Item -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System' -Force | Out-Null
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System' -Name 'NoConnectedUser' -PropertyType DWord -Value 3 -Force

I hope this helps someone out. It took a lot of hunting to find the right workaround!

There were a few times over the years when I tried to switch from Google to DuckDuckGo. It didn't take until my latest attempt six months ago. This isn't because DuckDuckGo suddenly got much better; it is because Google has gotten progressively worse... and worse... and worse. They signed their own death warrant: the war for top spot in Google's results via SEO has enshittified the vast amount of content they rely upon. The web is no longer written for humans, it is written for Google, and that has poisoned the well they rely upon.

(and yes, I know Brython is a JavaScript trick. But still.)

I know Armin has seen Python in the browser, in lieu of JavaScript: https://brython.info/

...and then there is Beeware, which is Python for every mobile device there is: https://beeware.org/

The projects aren't incredibly well known, but they've got traction and some very bright people with a track record of success running them.

YAML is a superset of JSON, and I've never liked it. I can never quite get the indentation right (and I primary use and love Python these days, so I'm in no way opposed to white space having meaning). I've find JSON pretty readable, so I've found myself just using JSON for places that require YAML. Convert a YAML Ansible role to JSON and look at it: it flows much more naturally when my eyes parse it.

A few options:

An elderly friend uses Roku with nothing but apps. She has Amazon Prime, the PBS app (free from your local provider), the free CBS News 24/7 app for Roku, and that's it. She only pays $50 for monthly Comcast Internet, and the yearly Amazon Prime cost.

For me, I have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Youtube TV. Youtube TV has jacked up the price from $35 to $65 over the past few years, for a bunch of channels I don't give a crap about, but I split the cost with my girlfriend. So ~$50 a month for FiOS plus $32.50 a month for Youtube TV isn't bad; $82.50 is *way* cheaper than the $150-$200 Comcast was stealing, and that was for their barebones TV+Internet offering.

Not well thought out? The end-of-life date for Python 2 was announced six years prior, in 2014. Python 3 has been around for a decade. That's about as long a runway as I've ever seen. And what popular packages haven't transitioned to Python 3? See: https://python3wos.appspot.com/

Here here. This move completely ignores the fact that sales are only for those over 18, and the science on the issue: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-than-tobacco-estimates-landmark-review

Nicotine on its own is much like caffeine: highly addictive, but not that harmful. It's the other crap in cigarettes that kills you. Vaping has no carcinogens.

But don't let science get in the way of some good political FUD, eh?

Da-ding! https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/faq/general/#what-does-django-mean-and-how-do-you-pronounce-it

+1, they obviously just read the comic!

Here's a good read; this isn't a slide out, but an addition to an iPhone which has already had its sales injunctions despite the fact is would (obviously) appeal to a great many Blackberry users now using iPhones:

http://gigaom.com/2014/03/31/ryan-seacrests-typo-keyboard-for-iphone-earns-its-first-prize-a-sales-injunction/

While I couldn't imagine having a smartphone that long (let alone the midnight terrors I wake up with thinking a phablet is coming to get me), I do appreciate the option being available.

I work for a large University in a division that provides financial data to ourselves, as well as other academic institutions. We had been a SAS only shop since our inception in the early '90s, save for a few FORTRAN users here and there.

We wanted to support more options for the researchers using our service, and today, we support SAS, R, and Python. One nice thing about SAS is SAS/SHARE. Basically, it makes your native SAS files (*.sas7bdat) available as tables in a database over ODBC or JDBC, with full index support. This has allowed us to consume these same data in both R and Python. This had made many of our younger researchers (think Masters students instead of tenured faculty) very happy!

Good luck.

Some of the threads started here have said, "What's wrong with Perl?" There is nothing inherently wrong with Perl, it is still a fine language, if a bit awkward. Compared to other languages, it does feel quite ugly. I've always had a soft spot for Perl, as it was the language I used to make my first web site. I've been moving some legacy code away from Perl, and standardizing more of the organization than just my department into Python / Django. Python has a lot going for it in a lot of settings, and since we're in academia, it makes sense.

We're in Philadelphia, and something I've lamented is there's never been an active local Perl group. Just about every other highly-used language does (as in, the top 10 of the Tiobe Programming Index). PhillyPUG (Python), Philly.rb (Ruby), PyStar Philly (a women's Python learning group), PhillyDB... the list goes on and on.

Python is also the most consistently readable language I've used, and that goes beyond the forced indentation.

YMMV of course, but the major thing for me was having supportive, local communities supporting the language.

...and that car must be K.I.T.T., the Knight Rider Two Thousand.