Unreasonable search and seizure... you need a search warrant.

Without a search warrant?

Thinks they are Apple.

We use Windows because we're not Fanatics, but because we kind of have to.

You know its bad when your 85 year old Father-In-Law keeps asking about Linux.

To an extent yes. There has been some utter crap. Another Life pops immediately to mind as something so unwatchably terrible that i watched just to see if it could get worse (spoiler: yes! wow... so much yes!)

But that isn't a netflix issue, that's just an issue. From Firefly to The Expanse to Babylon 5 sci-fi especially is hamstrung by its production.

But there's been plenty of good shows to watch too:

I quite liked Fall of the House of Usher recently for example.
Black Mirror, Maniac, Umbrella Academy were good.
I watched the The OA Season 1 and that was good (I skipped part 2 since i knew it was cancelled mid-arc.) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was brilliant - especially season 1.

"So, books have always been more my thing. I'm sticking with them."

Sure, I like books too.. but Game of Throne's is a mess that may never be finished and perhaps shouldn't be; and Wheel of Time never was. And even Asimov's foundation is actually better without books 4 and 5, nevermind the Benford books, and Dune ... likewise did not improve with more novels, and also fell off a cliff when other authors kept it going like a zombie corpse. Things that are 'good' always invite 'more' and the 'more' is almost never as good.

These days my favorite books to read are those that are not part of a series, or at most are a trilogy, and have a beginning middle and an end and above all: a point. They don't try to milk the setting or characters endlessly. With each successive book in the series getting longer and longer as less and less editorial control is exercised over an author seemingly paid by the word.

Yes, I'm old.
The 60s had the best music. Actual lyrics, etc.
I still prefer to listen to "classic rock" over anything else.
This article is confirmation of what I have been thinking. There is no good new music.

And Dark City came out the year before. And the 13th floor came out the same year but earlier. Both were 'fake worlds' movies, both were also more intelligent movies, imho. Both were box office failures.

But I'd say all 3 are pretty original movies. (Although 13th floor was loosely based on a book (Simulacrum-3; and had previously been made for TV in the 70s in Germany) -- but even so I'd say its an original movie.

Your argument that nothing is original because you can identify tropes is too dismissive. If you couldn't identify any tropes the movie would be just be random images and noise... and that's probably a trope too.

I don't overclock it.

I do like buying the K versions though; as they generally have all the features; are readily available when I'm doing builds, and the fact that intel is binning it as a K means that its not going to fall over if it gets a little warm on a workload.

Nothing wrong with a gen3 i7, but if you want to have a system running a modern nvme SSD, and video card etc you do actually need a newer motherboard with a current chipset (pci express version, m2 slots, current bluetooth revision, etc etc) and that isn't going to be compatible with your gen3 i7.

Now... does it need to be an i9? No. Certainly not. I could have spec'd an i5 and it would have been fine. But just like you are still running a gen3 i7 today, I fully expect this i9 based system to be perfectly serviceable for a lot of tasks 10 years from now too, and over buying the cpu a bit will likely give me a bit more headway. I've still got both an 6th and 8th gen i7 in active use in my home, and JUST recently finally retired my own i7-3700K based system.

It's a conversational construct that anticipates an unvoiced follow up to my initial question.

Me: Is this news?
Anticipated unvoiced question: What do you mean?
Me: I mean, is it news worthy, because of XYZ"

60%+ of the webs logic runs on PHP. It may be way less necessary to build massive new systems with any language, be it PHP or anything else. But as a runtime PHP is as popular and required as ever. The top ten of the webs systems run almost exclusively on PHP, all other technologies are dwarfs in comparison.

I mean... I built my i9 13900K series PC for xmas 2022. The 14900K has been out for 6 months now... who would be surprised that the earlier chips are being discoed?

We have the same problem (probably worse) in the US where the Republicans (conservatives) aren't interested in doing anything except gumming up the works and persecuting immigrants, poor people and cutting social services (health, housing, food, education, retirement).

I'm not being pedantic, not really.

"The point is that if someone bypasses the HW requirements and gets Windows 11 to install/run, MS may, and probably will at some point, disable that ability."

It's really not all that likely at all. They just want to set a minimum for what they test and validate and support. They want bitlocker and microsoft account security, and passwordless/PIN logins and so the minimum supported spec ensures all the bits for that are there of a particular version. But what do they really care if you have win11 running on unsupported hardware? As long as you don't ask for support. They don't sell (that much) hardware. And they don't get anything but bad press for breaking things. (Also running a licensed copy on unsupported hardware is very different from running an unlicensed copy)

"And Linux vendors aren't going to actively try to stop you from running the OS on your system if you get it working. "

True enough. But passive neglect lets things get just as non-functional, and if you throw linux on a random windows PC... "works great" is often subject to caveats like 'something or other doesn't wake up properly from sleep', battery drains faster than it should, trackpad acceleration and touch features are janky, dolby-atmos sound is now "stereo", noise cancelling mic is now just a mic etc. It works, but it really isn't all that 'great'.

"That's not really the point. OP doesn't want to run the OS in an officially unsupported configuration"

Then OP isn't going to want to run an unsupported Windows 10 on the hardware he has now after October 2025 either.

If the priority is to run an officially supported configuration then your on the treadmill. Doesn't matter if the platform is Windows, Mac, RHEL, Ubuntu, or Android, or what.

"All my PCs are old, but they all do/will run Linux great"

Sure they will. But are they officially supported configurations?

Remember your own words: "OP doesn't to run the OS in an officially unsupported configuration".

Linux may run great on his hardware but no vendor is offering official support for that. And there's no guarantee that even if it works now that it will continue to do so. If those are terms you are ok with that's fine. But then throwing Windows 11 on the PC would be the same boat.

If you care about official support, Linux is still an option. There are plenty of Linux PCs out there with official support - from Steam Deck to System76 and even Dell. Your random Windows 10 PC though, sure it may work great with linux; it may work great with windows 11 too. But is it an officially supported configuration? Not so much... in either case.

I consider Theo-Fascism the worst type of fascism, because it abandons reason even way earlier than regular fascism. Both have a quasi-religious perversion of government, but at least with regular fascism religion is more of a sideshow. In Theo-Fascist regimes its front and center which turns it evil way faster and harder. On top of that, because its religion at the center, reason has been abandoned at the onset of fascism and not as a final result, making it much harder for a society to turn around or find "justifiable" ways to make life work.

Religious fanatics are the worst and these days its the Islam variants are the most ridiculous, are causing the most damage and are the most dangerous. Somebody needs to off the troika leading that country.