I paid 21$ for my Windows license 10 years ago.

Updated it 3 times, never paid a penny more.

"Cutting Edge" version of Windows which is 4 years old, instead of 10 years old.

You guys are funny. Should they also still offer MS-DOS 5.0 security patches ?

Can I still get updates for Redhat Linux 5.2 ? No, not Enterprise Linux 5, actual real Redhat Linux 5.2 with its Kernel 2.2.

This has nothing to do with that at all.

This is "Your OS is 10 years old, and if you want to keep using it and receiving updates, we better see some money to justify the devs we put to work on it".

No different than Windows 95 in 2005. Time to move to XP.

Is like using Windows 95 in 2005.

At some point, we can't ask companies to keep dragging you along for the ride.

That's where Slashdot is at now. Peeps commenting without going further than the headline.

The answer to your question is in the summary : as long as the app is running, it changes the settings back, whether the VPN is connected or not.

The problem is the "too low barrier of entry" is a ridiculous notion and a non-argument. We're in 2024. There's an open source compiler for about every thing. There is no barrier of entry besides owning a 300$ laptop or an even cheaper used desktop.

If OP is looking for a programming language with strict gatekeeping, he's in for a world of sadness. So really, why single out Go ?

Strange, I'm neither an independent contractor nor exempt and yet I'm on Slashdot.

I work 35 hours/week. Anything else is overtime is completely optional and I'm the only one that gets to decide if it gets done or not. My boss can ask nicely and that's the limit of what he can do about it.

I'm paid hourly, not salaried. In IT.

How is it not interoperating though ?

You can text Android phones from Apple phones and vice versa.

In what world is the color of the displayed message a lack of interoperation ? If the message is displayed, it interoperated.

Do you guys not know what words mean anymore ?

Blue means it's iMessage. AKA : Apple user, nopt non-Apple user.

You couldn't even get the color right.

That's one heck of a social stigma that you couldn't even get it right. Really stigmatising.

A green background with white text is "pain" ? Do you guys even hear yourselves ?

Sometimes there isn't a benefit worth it though.

If you're saying Online Age Verification is an impossible problem, I think it's more that peeps don't want to solve it, than the fact that it's not solveable.

I remember the days when "Children shouldn't have access to porn" wasn't a partisan and controversial opinion.

Now we have a gang of people, probably NAMBLA members, who think "Porn is free speech!"

That's the same thing the guy you replied to said.

Woke is when you believe that there are systemic injustifies in American society and that the solution to them is Affirmative Action, suppression of dissent and promoting groups at the detriment of others based on immutable characteristics like skin color.

If that's too hard for you to understand try this : If you think color-blindness is racist, you're woke.

Russia is in fact free to file whatever it wants. Why are we against people filing requests ? Just because they filed it doesn't mean it'll get approved.