yeah, but it's also the end of PC sales for a few years unless you have $10000 to splash

Instead, it plans to develop a voluntary industry code covering end-of-life transparency and preservation which no one will bother with.

Has any voluntary industry code and self regulation EVER worked?

My main PC was about 8 seconds when I did my last OS reinstall, however 12 months later it's 72 seconds now.

It will be OK as soon as IFPI start to get a cut from the playing royalites

I just brought a new laptop for when I am off site. I disabled OneDrive and other such crap. Then unknown to me a windows update happened and onedrive started up copied all the files off the laptop and to some server somewhere.
I only found out once I had driven 200 miles for a small weekend break, unpacked the laptop and switched on and all my files gone. Where I was was up in the mountains with no mobile signal so I could not download them, so for one day of my break I had to drive 60 miles to a local town to get wifi in a cafe. Bastard OneDrive, Bastard Microsoft

Oh yes, the good old "why do you want to do that" reply, so you explain why you want to do that only to be told by someone else that you'll be better off buy a new PC or Reinstall the OS or something completely different, in the end you end up going elsewhere like Reddit etc and getting told how to do what you want to do - Great!!!

Now, it's just ask on of the suitable AI chatbots and you get your answer right back along with 99% working code

A Witch!!!!

You still can, but you have to collect it from their customer services desk at the airport.

on hold

Just crap posters posting crap, My wife still insists on using facebook but does complain when it's all rubbish for post after post before she finds something from a friend.

Be strong NATO and invoke Article 5 is a country (ie Russia) damages any more infrastructure...Currently you are ignoring everything and all damage and hoping Pootini does not do anything else but he does so you ignore it again hoping Pootini does nothing more but he does.....

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

Why don't the TV companies and streaming services just do what they want to actually do and have the channels just show ads all the time, who needs programmes etc when they can show ads 24hrs a day on every channel, this was they can make a fast buck and squeeze what they can from the advertisers whilst their TV channels and streaming services slow dwindle to the poor suckers who can't be bothered to cancel their subs.

It's nearly like this now UK TV with 7 to 8 minutes of ads every 5 mins of actual programmes. The old 1 hour TV show is now about 23 mins long..

I don't know why they don't they get their new buddies in Russia to launch their sats

The other day we had approx 24hr outage on our fibre connection which resulted is VOIP phone also down, along with nearly every light bulb (Alexa controlled)