Windows has really been "good enough" at least since WinXP. There are very, very few actual reasons why you would want to upgrade from there other than the OS losing manufacturer support.

Quite frankly, if XP still had patches going, I'd really have a hard time justifying upgrading from it.

True, true.

It's time to dig out the Linux distribution from back when Win7 had to be replaced and check whether now, finally, it is ready for business. I think that VMs are now far more capable than they used to be, so the few applications that can't run in Wine would probably by now work sensibly in that VM.

They already have altered it further.

Yes, MS is now officially worse than The Empire.

I'm fairly sure the reason for the lack of 2FA is the usual "I'm too important to be inconvenienced" screwup. Where C-Levels demand that they have full reign, full access and maximum privileges, but also can't be assed to agree on bare minimum security features because it's "too complicated" for them.

Let the users jump through all sorts of ridiculous hoops to access their locked down accounts, but I'm far, far too important to be in any way inconvenienced (hell, remembering that 8 letter password that doesn't conform to any password standards we require everyone else to follow) when I want to access my all-access account.

Which I don't use, because that's what my secretary is for. But I need to have it. Because I'm important.

Nooooo, say it ain't so! That's unpossible!

Companies just noticed that cloud services are a bit like a marriage. It's easy to get into, but if you want out, it gets expensive and chances are good that half your stuff will go missing.

If you cannot justify what your side does, the only option is to pretend the other side is just as bad.

Basically, any time someone goes to deflect to someone else, you know that they know that what they do isn't ok and they cannot justify it anymore.

Do we really have to clone it first?

I mean, really, do we?

He could no longer be the Annoying Orange if he didn't.

Technically, Russia should not be a permanent member of the security council. The last USSR member to leave the union was not Russia, it was Kazakhstan. So, actually, Kazakhstan should be the successor to all things USSR, including the permanent seat on the security council of the UN.

Old joke: Freedom of speech is the same in Moscow and Washington. In both places you can go into the marketplace and yell at the top of your lungs "The US president is a moron" without getting arrested.

As long as "everywhere" is defined as "places that don't consider Russia either the scourge of the earth or a useful and desperate piggy bank", i.e. Belarus and North Korea, well, it's true.

It's real. It's a treat, you should definitely check it out.

Poe's Law REALLY is strong in that one.

Skepticism in the old fashion sense or in the "I heard on YouTube and Xitter that it's totally different and they don't let me say it" sense?

If you got more zingers like that, you might have a gig in Vegas.

Provided you get out of Russia first, of course.