It was never really about the capability of the hardware to run Windows 11, it was about Microsoft's desire to cut costs by not having to support it. Every supported configuration has to be tested, and if issues are found relating to 10 year old drivers, they have to be fixed.

What we really need is a law to set the minimum support term, say 10 years after the last official sale. For Windows 10 that would be 2031. Even that might not be enough though - both Microsoft and Apple are notorious for releasing updates that cripple performance on older hardware.

Jobs had it a few times, but he usually just had a backup device ready to switch over to. I recall it at least once with a Mac, and famously with I think an iPhone where be blamed the large number of WiFi devices in the room.

As a parent, I absolutely want my kid to go to a successful school, and definitely want him going to a school with things set in its favour. Why wouldn't I? Fuck the "even playing field". I want my kid to have advantages. The more, the better.

Oh well.

Only if one had such need (concerning Mandarin).

I venture a guess, most Americans don't.

I remember a guy putting Mandarin on his resume for a job for which I was hiring. My only thought was "who the fuck cares?"

Same guy claimed he knew 10,000 software applications. I flirted with inviting him for an interview just to ask him to name all 10,000. I decided I had better things to do that day.

Ah, but how many Spanish and Mandarin speakers are there in the U.S.? Speakers, you know, a U.S. student is actually likely to encounter?

My 9 year old plays with a home schooled 10 year old who lives down the street. I have a lot of exposure to him (he is at our house now, playing).

I can tell you what. In terms of social skills and maturity, he is very impressive. I wish I was getting those kinds of results.

Ironically, I randomly learned recently that they are way into Jesus and their family votes Democrat. Go figure.

My wife was making breakfast for the whole family when she was 8 years old.

Standards were a little different in the Soviet Union.

Actually, what I wanted was a half-dollar, but your point is made.

Yes it does. And those schools can concentrate on the "leftovers" and make the most of them as possible, while not interfering with the educational rights and opportunities of the cherry-picked ones.

I did some teaching for a while. I was also a student. One of the biggest crimes I ever saw, total educational malpractice, was the fucking over of kids who wanted to be there and learn, for the sake of the dipshits and assholes who could not give two shits about learning ANYTHING, but were hell bent on preventing anyone else from learning anything either.

Sure. Negate the whole reason to send a kid to a charter school.

Yeah. If I had to send my kid to the local school district, I'd be very unsatisfied. So much so that we would relocate to a place with better schools.

As it is, we use a private school. I am not completely happy about it, as sending my kid to this school violates some of my core beliefs, but it is my best option, as far as I can tell. I don't mind sending him there, tooooo much. If I did, I would spend more to send him elsewhere.

His school is only K-8, so he will have to go elsewhere eventually.

Pretty much everything not big-name-brand that's on Walmart or Amazon is marked up 25% or more from the Aliexpress price for exactly the same product. If you're willing to wait for it to come from China, you can get the same crap for less. I've just placed an order for an item that's $200 on Amazon and was $150. I expect it to take maybe an extra week.

A civil war is more likely than maggots reading something.

Calc will generate pivot tables, but not with a live WYSIWYG interface where you can tweak it as you go. It creates a new tab in your sheet after you fill in a dialog which is static, so if you want a current one or want it to be slightly different, you have to create it all over again.

I hear that these days it handles very large files OK, so IMO this is the last major feature needed before it can really be taken seriously as an Excel replacement.

You mean like Teslas have done in incident after incident, including several where people have died?