If one has Windows 11, one should look at converting it into Tiny11, and then only installing the software one's really going to use. And only allow Windows Defender updates, and security updates on Windows update

I disagree. Windows 7 was a quality OS. If one wants to go under the hood, even the Windows 8 kernel was great, even if the Metro UI sucked. Problem is that from that point, Microsoft didn't know how to leave well enough alone

They could have done a few things:

1. 1. For the traditional desktop Windows, take the 8 kernel, put the Windows 7 Aero interface on top of it, maybe change the start button from a flag to the 8 Window, but other than that, leave it alone!
2. 2. For touch PCs, have Metro if mouse is disabled, but otherwise, stay w/ the Windows 7 UI.
3. 3. For Windows Phone, have the Metro interface

From that point, the main work Microsoft should have done should have been on the phones - porting as many apps as possible to Windows Phone 8, so that that would have had a better showing in the market. Instead of acquiring Nokia

If there was a way of only doing the security updates, but preventing any other updates, such as the removal of Wordpad, or the alteration of Notepad and Paint, I'd be fine w/ it. One security practices is to always have the latest security patches, so I'm fine w/ that. However, I don't want them pushing an alternate Outlook version on me every release, or mucking around w/ the user interface of a package just so that their programmers aren't just twiddling their thumbs

Yeah, that one is asinine

I don't know about #5, but definitely not #2 - that I would have given to Woz, one of the co-founders. Cook did do things like morphing Apple into a media company, which was a part of the formula that made it incredibly rich, after decades of mediocre financials. But that's more of a corporate achievement than a revolution in computing, such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Watch that Jobs oversaw

True! I believe that the "Apple" that remained once "Computers" was dropped from the company name was a very different company from the original. Just like the SCO that existed after the acquisition of Caldera was completely different from Santa Cruz Operations

Only thing one missed about the old Apple Computer Macs was the lack of pre-emptive multitasking. But in exchange for gaining that, the modularity of the Mac OS was lost: NEXTSTEP, great as it was, was nothing like System 7, and couldn't be, since Unix isn't architected that way. It's too bad Copland wasn't reined in and released w/ incremental features like todays various OS updates are

Problem is that Aqua, or whatever the macOS UI is now called, is not FOSS. If it were, one could just take it and install it on top of FreeBSD or NetBSD and then be off to the races w/ non-Apple hardware or especially retired Apple hardware. Even if it has Linux-specific problems installing on Linux

The CLI is FreeBSD, definitely not Linux or Windows

I could live w/ Apple not being open, as long as they were properly customer-centric. Like Bryan Lunduke once pointed out, the old Apple computers were a joy to have, where one could configure any system any which way, and have all sorts of add-ons inside the computer, right upto a 486 add-on on which one could run Wintel programs from System 7

Problem started after Jobs' return to Apple, where he did succeed in making the company profitable, which is important! However, he also did a lot of things like erode upgradability, right to repair, and having fixed configurations that no one could change (since that would mean more trouble for Apple technicians at Apple stores). NEXTSTEP & OS-X were great, but they were not System 9: one could no longer swap in and out cards or other peripherals. Yeah, pre-emptive multitasking finally arrived by having a Unix operating system on Macs, but on the flip side, the flexibility that Apple users then had (and which Wintel PC users still have, became a thing of the past

In either case, if one only has 4GB of RAM, just stick w/ the 32-bit version of the OS

Relevance?

There are so many other Linux distros, including derivatives of the main ones - RedHat, Debian, Arch, Slackware, and then, beyond them, several DE options aside from Gnome There's LX/QT, Razor QT, XFCE, WindowMaker, Hyperland, and one can even go w/ minimalist windowing DEs

Also, if one has 4GB of RAM or less, it's probably a good idea to stick to a 32-bit version of the OS, whichever it is

I don't think the IRGC cares whether a particular US company is pro- or anti-Trump. The fact that it's American is adequate

If you disbelieve that, explain why they have been targeting countries that don't have US troops on their territory - Azerbaijan, Iraq, Lebanon, even Turkey

Actually, Israel joined the Iranian people in a war against the islamic regime. The US objective is unclear, but the Israeli one is - regime change! Once the IRGC and Basij are weak enough, the Iranian people can pull off a revolution and replace the theocracy w/ a secular democracy. Then a referendum will be held on whether to be a secular democratic parliamentary monarchy, or a secular democratic republic. It will be up to the Iranian people

I'd imagine that the last thing that AMD wants to do would be to attract the attention of the FTC. I'm not sure that they could claim that Apple, Qualcomm and Nvidia are their other alternatives

Besides, a part of the reason that AMD became successful was becoming a fabless company, and spinning off their semiconductor manufacturing to Global Foundries. It would defeat the purpose for them to acquire Intel's fabs now, which probably have far greater overhead than Global Foundries did

The last time a major acquisition was attempted - Nvidia buying Arm Holdings from SoftBank, the FTC intervened and prevented it. That was the FTC preventing a US company from acquiring an asset of a foreign - Japanese/British company (depending on how one looks at Arm Holdings). The chances of the FTC allowing a US company from acquiring another US company is even more remote

I think the best thing that Intel can do for itself would be to become a pure player fab - like a TSMC, and sell off its CPU business to Nvidia, and GPU to someone else - Apple maybe? Then as a fab, they can be an alternate source to TSMC, Samsung, Hynix and others

What Waze does is warn drivers ahead of a speed camera, so that the driver may slow down. If there are a bunch of them, Waze will point that out as well. As well as hidden traffic cops, traffic lights, slowdowns ahead and so on

Given all that, I doubt that Waze will be rendered useless by such adjustments in speed tracking