The only thing that MS could make that wouldn't suck would be a vacuum cleaner (to recycle an oldie but goodie).

An email: Dear CEO Bill Winters, our new supercalifragilisticextrahalitosis (slightly changed to prevent litigation) AI has discerned that you are lower-value human capital. B-bye now, write soon.

I already know how they will restructure utility rates, they'll go up.

We have already. It turns out the previous universe is run by alien cats. Admittedly they look no different from our current cats but that is just to fool us.

OTA just seems like such an inconvenient waste of time and resources now. It doesn't help that you need a licence for it in the UK, but even if it was free, it seems like it is easier to just pirate the small amount of stuff that is worth watching. And these days that is approaching zero, and what there is can be streamed anyway.

If "free" Plex can't transcode and can't stream externally, you may as well skip it entirely and just run something like FileZilla on your media server and use Kodi on the client(s). In fact, I lived with this exact setup until I got around to finally setting up JellyFin.

There hasn't been anything on OTA TV that I've cared to watch ever since all the major networks moved anything halfway decent behind the paywalls of their respective branded streaming services.

That was the last great windows, for windows values of great. I refuse to go find out, but I bet someone has even figured out how to get it past the 2GB limit and implement USB.

Seems like it would be an improvement.

Every wavelength of IR is attenuated by cloud cover to some degree, some more strongly than others. Absorption is also not the only issue.

What? You absolutely had to authenticate to administer a Netware server, unless you did it from the console in the early days. That is logging in. If you don't think so, then neither is passwordless rsh, or ssh with a key and no password.

Most of the basic behavior of the UI used in Windows was inherited from IBM CUA, and is also shared by all of the commonest DEs for Linux. They also all have an analogue of the start menu. It's unclear what you're talking about here.

Back when the OS MacOS is now based on was created, there was no distinction between workstation and server OSes. Therefore MacOS X not being intended as a server OS is a downgrade from the prior product... like many of the changes Apple made, especially the UI ones.

They chose the under-tested alpha version of an OS from a vendor who is running an attack on the GPL. What could possibly be less surprising than that? You need to recalibrate your surprise-o-meter.

Yeah that. Why not a GitGov or GovHub? It makes zero sense.