I have no knowledge of that, for which I'm happy. But... Windows 10 was released in 2015 and will apparently be supported through late 2027. Outside of RHEL no Linux distro comes close.

Well, if by "many, many, many" you mean "about five". Red Hat provides longer support terms, but not for free.

True, sort of. Assuming the upgrade works, which it often does... but not always.

I'm no Windows fanboy, in fact the last version of Windows I used was Windows 2000. I switched to Linux completely by mid-2001 and I've never looked back. But it's really not as rosy as you paint it. The commercial OSes (Windows and OS X) actually do a much better job of delivering long-term support and (in the case of OS X) upgrades. I don't personally care about that for my machines, because I have no problem managing them, and even debugging the occasional update or upgrade failure. But I'm actually glad most of my relatives use Windows, because I would not enjoy having to help them do the same.

You seem to have completely missed the point, which is that what Biden *should* have done -- while his party held both houses -- is changed the law, rather than issuing an order that broke the law. Trump has been far, far worse about this, but it's clear that part of Trump's goal (or the goal of someone with his ear, since I'm not sure he is capable of making and pursuing goals over longer time periods than a few days) is to establish that the president doesn't need Congress.

Probably. Their software is getting worse and worse and everybody hates being pushed into AI use. The last thing they need is a global security catastrophe from Win10 users.

Well, what did I expect. Obviously you would try to defend a deeply stupid stance with a fallacy.

What do you think he's going to do with it?

There is a lot of applied stupidity in software design these days. The worst is when they try to force users to use features they do not want.

Sounds like full cognitive surrender by complete morons.

It is just some really dumb people having a circle-jerk.

At this time, they do not even know whether they need to do anything about it. Your question is premature.

Yep. Grounding is done for Being-level bad, not for Airbus-level "maybe there is a problem". Also note that this is less than 10% of the A380 fleet.

Apparently, about 250 are in use. Not so rare.

Complete nonsense. This is an early safety measure which is the result of an abundance of caution. Calling this "casual insecurity" is insightless beyond belief. It is not even clear whether anything needs to be done at all, they just have found a potential problem and are looking at it.

And that the problem is not severe enough to mandate immediate inspection in all cases. Not comparable to the trash Boeing has been delivering.

There is always some personal upside for some people when technology becomes "obsolete" but remains critical. No argument about that and I am likely one of those. For example, I already have a request whether I would be interested in maintaining some FORTRAN code when I retire. (Not sure I want to, but FORTRAN is a very reasonable classical language. And I can do C or even assembler embedding if needed.)

Some expertise is both critical and rare. That said, this LLM hype is pretty bad for most people and it must eventually crash back to reality. Anybody dependent on LLMs will be in really deep trouble at that time.