So what you're saying is there's no difference between Windows 10 and 11 then since minor updates break things? Congrats, you strengthened my point further.

The ol' kick the can down the road approach to security is never the best. The problem is fundamentally things are not well supported across the things you actually DO care about. The OS vendor supports it? Great! You can't file your taxes though because we only just covered a story about a certain piece of tax software no longer supporting Windows 10. You won't be able to get support for many apps if you do have problems because "we no longer support windows 10, be fucking happy our app started at all" will be the customer service answer.

Either way the end user is left with nothing but a deteriorating situation at best, and a ticking time bomb to go off later at worst. Even without the legal issue you'll find some software won't install on that version of windows as well, which comes back to biggest problem literally everyone on Slashdot is making: They are dictating a solution without ever asking the user what their problem / use case is.

Are you daft? The entire security subsystem of windows depends on TPM. The implementation of passkeys and windows Hello is fundamentally insecure without it, defeating the entire concept of a local device pin and defeating the purpose of passkeys.

This is a core security feature of the modern world, and Windows is the last popular OS to mandate it.

Yeah I can tell you don't take security serious in the slightest if that's your claim. You've just ignored decades of very public and very embarrassing leaks even of government documents and many people's private data precisely due to the problem of disks not being encrypted falling into the wrong hands.

Sorry I can't take your reply seriously anymore, not reading the rest of your post.

You're right, it becomes more vulnerable the following Patch Tuesday. You're acting like security bugs are solved in Windows 10 rather than Windows being an architectural nightmare where security relies on a cat and mouse game of find the bug between Microsoft and anyone willing to do you harm.

So yeah you're no more vulnerable the day after, but a month after you literally are more vulnerable as you will be forced to live with unpatched vulnerabilities.

How many timezones are you going to dedicate to making sure that the clock is aligned with solar noon? What's your margin of error? 1 hour? 30min? 15min? How wide is your timezone?

Vienna and Amsterdam are in the same timezone because it's easier for people to interact when they share a common time. They are 50minutes apart in solar noon. Who would benefit from defining new clocks that keep the sun overhead at noon?

That's a nice lie pushed by people who are promoting standard time. No one is "free" to set the times of their business hours. Those hours are dictated with interactions with suppliers, customers, other businesses, heck may even be contractually specified in the case of lease agreements, and in general they are at the mercy of the society they are in.

The only solution is mandating a unified change.

Why standard time? Why not keep it on summer time?

As for changing the hours you're officially open, I'm happy for you that you work in a company or job that lives in isolation and does not engage with vendors, customers, or other businesses, but for many your solution is a non-starter.

Even me who works from home has my work hours dictated by meetings I support with others. We can't all live in a social bubble.

A nuisance it may be, but that doesn't make it great. Honestly I don't give a shit about farmers. It's just really nice to have more afternoon sun after work to enjoy life. Which raises a new point... we all agree changing the clocks suck, but let's start a new argument: I propose permanent summer time, because fuck standard time and dark afternoons.

To be clear, are you suggesting you suffer jet lag for 2 weeks from a 1 hour timezone change? You never go out in the evening do you... I'm not picking on you, I'm genuinely curious. A 1 hour difference in sleep is like ... a daily occurrence for much of the world. The medical issues are due to the stress of not recognising the time change throwing out your plans the day after.

*without

LOL kids respect sleep time with daylight savings? Are you a German and is this one of those cultural punctuality things that no one in the rest of the world can comprehend?

LOL "standards". Apple was free to submit Lightning to the standards committee. All they needed to do was open it to everyone.

Errr no. Can you cite an example of a place that has banned gas stoves due to fire risk specifically? I've never heard of that. It's mentioned occasionally as a side note, but I know plenty of places that are banning gas stoves for several other reasons:
a) policy to eliminate gas use.
b) reduction in CO2 emissions (electrification + greening of the grid).
c) health.

I'll do you one better. In many parts of the world actual exhaust vents in the kitchen preclude you from having a high energy rating as it is air replacement without heat exchange. In many parts of the cold world which cares about home efficiency, you will have a recirculating range with a carbon filter. The only exhaust happens with central air handling in the house via a heat exchanger, and that typically triggers on CO2 and moisture, not on PM2.5, VOC, or NO2.

In many cases people need to manually crank up their air exchange in the house when cooking.
In most cases, people forget.

That being said to get the high efficiency rating you will be using an induction cooker anyway.

Who is pushed where? Social media is more active than ever before? It seems to me that the outrage and sarcastic shit is what people are here for.

So a lot of minor stuff that added minor restrictions to very specific and narrow privacy cases. The closest anyone has come was HIPAA, but even that is mdedical only. No laws at no point ever addressed the concept of citizen privacy holistically. The republicans are fucking terrible, but even when Democrats controlled the house and senate they didn't pass any holistic privacy laws.