Unlike Microsoft Office of course. That wasn't pushed at all on schools with very heavy discounts and the option to also buy heavily discounted for home use.

/sarcasm off

This is the man that though it better to hide what was happening in Rotherham with the industrial scale rape of minors and now expects to be taken seriously when he gets on a soap box about something he does not understand. If a minor lies about their age the app they are using will believe they are old enough. The parents need to be more involved in what the children are doing and to know. Do not give them smart phones. Leave a desktop downstairs for supervised use etc.

Why is this suddenly news again?

IÂm shocked Meta is still investing in that metaverse crappy nonsense. They fell for the own hoax or what?

Just 3.4bi?? Ford and GM received way more than this just in Brazil alone.

I concur. Being a Microsoft Certified Professional implies that security is one of your lesser concerns.

Flash was a tool that made content creation really easy. Go to albinoblacksheep.com (or a similar site) and witness it in all its glory with classics like "gonads & strife" and "the end of ze world".

It's downfall was that it had horrendous security and could be exploited by nearly anyone with a few brain cells. It _had_ to be superseded by something better. Microsoft tried with SilverLight (also a security nightmare), and I think an open standard like HTML5 is better than a big corp standard.

Meh, in 2000 they hit some milestone and made a big deal about it:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/00/02/24/0954216/slashdots-10000th-story

Seriously though, I remember /. from before user accounts. You optionally could write your name under a post, or be anonymous. Due to privacy concerns I held off creating an account for a long time, and I lost my 1st login so I'm on my second account now. I've wasted a lot of time on this site and occasionally return.

The discussions back then were a lot more interesting and in depth, I really miss those. Sometimes a gem pops up and really enlightens me on a subject or gives me a new perspective.

And CowboyNeal was a revered member in the slashdot polls, now he feels like some abandoned toy in the attic, and I wish he wasn't because the option sparked some great (silly) discussions.

What mandate? There were tax breaks for renewables, not mandates.

OK, an outside observation.

If people don't have health insurance they won't go to the doctor because it's too expensive, up until the point that their body breaks down and they either die or are so far gone that treatment consists of painkillers.

If they do have health insurance, they can go to a doctor and they can have an illness diagnosed a lot earlier and have effective treatment.

ACA enabled access to medical care if you needed it. I may oversimplify a number of things but that's how I see it.

We're all being f*cked by Trump anyway.

I'm going to take a shower now, I feel dirty.

And I apologize if I put this mental image on you.

Most of the experiences of people here are anecdotal, as are mine. Personally I'm happy to use ASRock, the last 12 years their mid-tier motherboards (3 gens, 1 intel, 2 amd) have been solid performers. Don't get me started on ASUS, I bought 2 high-end motherboards and both crapped out within 2-3 years outside of warranty. We highly recommended them when I was still working in a computer shop and for most people they worked reliably, just not for me.

In the good 'ole days this kind of news would have had over a thousand comments in a few hours, not 36 in over 5 hours. I really miss the old Slashdot vibe. It has gone downhill, and as an /. old-timer (I was there before uid's and usernames and I lost my first login which is why I have a "recent" uid) I think it's sad to see it in this state.

However, there's still the odd gem in the comments sometimes. Too bad those are harder and harder to find.

Nonsense

RedHat does. So does Oracle. And IBM for AIX. And Microsoft as well for for instance MS SQL Server 2022 and MS Office 2024.

Great idea! ;-)
Maybe a legal action based on programmed/forced obsolescence or environmental damage could work.