I think it really depends on the business model. It sucks when its a service you pay a recurring fee for for "buffet" content. MOST streaming works that way. Gaming has some options there but most of the content is still sold as individual purchases.

In that regard, I don't care as much. I don't want to feel like I have to subscribe to a half a dozen different services to play or watch a specific title, but if I'm paying a one time fee for it, I don't much care which one I bought it on. I mostly prefer Steam, but if I have to launch GOG to play one game it doesn't bother me.

>"4K or 8K TVs Offer No Distinguishable Benefit Over Similarly Sized 2K Screen in Average Living Room, Scientists Say "

No duh. I have been saying that to people for many years. Most people can't even tell the difference between high-quality 720P and 1080P moving images on a 60" screen from 15 feet away.

There is no driver facing camera. It doesn't do it in response to the driver looking away from the road - it just pops the message up at random intervals.

>"Really, there should be protected actions and when an extension asks to do them we should need to approve them."

+1, I would like to see that

>"Literally the only reason that any car manufacturer tries to force you to use their own system is to sell you subscriptions."

They will sell you subscriptions, regardless. Because there is still the matter of telematics, car mobile app, etc. How do I know this? Because my new car has both Android Auto and Apple Carplay ability, in addition to native systems (so it has all three). Without the subscription, a lot of functionality is lost, even when using AA/ACP (like self-driving). The car comes with 3 years of included service at no cost, though.

No company is going to be without subscriptions, regardless of what system.

My current vehicle is a GM - a 2017 Chevy Colorado. If this is the case I won't buy another. I have no desire to be locked into a proprietary system.

And you can't disable from the settings menu either. You can disable the warning that you might have left your kid in the backseat, but you can't disable the "Don't take your eyes off the road." message that is likely to pull your attention from the road.

Well, and even an iPhone eventually is out of date and needs to be replaced. I keep vehicles a long time. My current one is a 2017 Chevy Colorado I bought new back in early 2017. I've had it 8 years. My vehicle before that I bought new in 2006 and I kept it for 11 years.

Both have lasted much longer than any standard computing device will. All I want is a dumb screen a la Android Auto to sit there and adapt to whatever phone I happen to be connecting.

I don't want to navigate the apps using my tiny phone screen though - Android Auto gives a great car-appropriate interface to my device.

At the end of the day why someone wants to use the feature really isn't an issue. You don't explain to their customers how to avoid doing something they want to do. Its a simple feature thats already available that they're removing to try and charge more for their proprietary alternative that many don't want.

Yeah, when they said "GNOME" my eyes rolled. I know exactly nobody that uses a 'modern' GNOME desktop under Linux. Nobody. Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, whatever, but not GNOME. I have no idea why on earth Ubuntu defaults to Gnome.

Really, most people are ditching Ubuntu anyway for Mint. But at least most everything learned in a class or "cert" for Ubuntu will apply to Mint, except for the Snap crap.

>"The FAQ advises test takers to use a Chromium-based browser, as Firefox "is NOT supported at this time... There is a known issue [...] will be resolved in the CUE.01 Linux 24.10 exam release."

Maybe they need to take/pass their own exams? No Firefox = invalid site. There are essentially only two browsers, and they can't handle that extraordinary amount of diversity?

>"tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in."

That is a misuse of the term "opt-in". That is like saying I am requiring you to volunteer.

I don't know that MS has been caught doing data transfers specifically(though they'd have to screw it up or have it leaked at a fairly high level to get caught; 'cloud' is basically always opaque on the back end as far as the customer can see); but there have been a couple of instances recently of service getting cancelled. When Trump got into a snit with the ICC cut their chief prosecutor off(Brad Smith mollified more or less nobody with the claim that they didn't cancel service to the ICC, just to the senior official that the feds were upset with, which is probably technically true in the sense of account GUIDs but not usefully true); and the also kicked Unit 8200 out of their cozy custom Azure environment; though apparently with enough notice that they were able to move the data somewhere else.

It seems likely that random European corporations see themselves as lower profile and less vulnerable than the ICC or Israeli military intelligence; but if anyone doing risk assessment for them hasn't at least considered the fact that basically a belligerent old man would just have to decide that they are 'very unfair' tomorrow; or that someone other than greenland needs to be brought into the homeland, and that would potentially be all it takes for your MS EA to just stop talking to you then they aren't doing their jobs very thoroughly.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” Albert Einstein

Having just left Microsoft, my perception was that they were starving the other divisions to go all-in on AI build out, which of course isn't producing any income currently. Which begs the question, what are the margins on your AI business, Microsoft? Ai loses a lot of money on every sale, but they make up for it in VOLUME!