I upgraded my friend's old Win machine with Mint to give to their 8yo girl. It took her minutes to figure out how to change the wallpaper etc.
I find that adults are a bigger problem: most unwilling to even try Firefox, never mind install from the Mozilla website. One of my friends hates her Samsung UI but won't change because that's all she's bought for 10+ years.

No mention = no freebie?

https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

How much money and resources is this new hallucination engine going to consume?

I like to see when judges grow a pair. Makes a welcome change.

...is laughing it's ancient ass off at this!

This was my thought too.
Why isn't the company getting fined a few $billion to teach them to keep their shit together?

I only upgrade my phone if it sounds better (Black Shark 5 for 4 years now) and I've disabled/uninstalled a ton of pre-installed apps.
The idea of having to go through this all over again is bad enough that I've pretty much dropped the idea of looking for a new phone. Coupled with this additional nonsense? The next phone will be dumb or 2nd-hand.

I have 40 year old cassettes with games on that still load but I have them all backed up on different drives too.
Cracked game installers run off your hard drive and never connect to their server (like old games as there was no servers!).
I had to download "V for Vendetta" recently as my BluRay program wasn't happy about something. I had to pirate media that I actually paid for a physical version of.

...if youth clubs, libraries etc hadn't been closed down everywhere. Where are kids supposed to go in the evenings?

Exactly this.

My exact thoughts!

I can't name a single production Disney have made in over 10 years that I wanted to watch. Getting shit for free? It's still shit.
See how much of your data they want to harvest and sell on before signing up.

Unless it sounds like Brian Blessed, I'm not interested.

Proton released a video warning about the glasses today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...