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Submission + - Microsoft pulls faulty Windows 11 Update (techrepublic.com)

Ol Olsoc writes: Another Windows update has tripped over its own feet, and users are once again left staring at error screens instead of progress bars. Reports Tech Republic: https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

FTA: Microsoft has rolled back a recent non-security update after widespread installation failures. Designed to quietly improve performance and stability, it instead fails before it can even get off the ground. Unlike typical update issues that surface after installation, this one blocks users at the door, refusing to install or crashing midway through the process. For many, the result is a familiar frustration: a cryptic error message, stalled systems, and no clear path forward. Microsoft has since paused the rollout entirely while it investigates the issue, leaving users waiting for a fix instead of the improvements they were promised.

Comment Re: It will flop (Score 1) 26

Good point, and I'm not here to argue with you -- the problem when we talk about Costco is the Wing drone's max capacity of 5lbs. That's not a Costco trip -- that's barely a trip to a Costco food court :).

5lbs feels like not enough to really replace most trips to actually stock your groceries, unless you break up your shopping trip into multiple delivery flights. It's much better for impromptu consumption (though that said, I feel like most of my trips to the local hardware store are "oh crap, I need this one thing ... " which would be under 5lbs)

Comment Re:Accountability (Score 1) 66

Reasonable stance, though I'd argue "some quarters are special" are a particularly good reason to stick with quarterly reporting -- because you don't get the smoothing effect of, say, bundling in your best quarter with your worst quarter. Most companies will have the same 'best' or 'worst' quarter YoY, so it's less about comparing, say, Q4 of this year with Q3 of this year, and more comparing Q4 of this year with Q4 of last year.

Comment Re:Should we be outraged? (Score 5, Informative) 57

I'm a Pokemon Go player; been playing it pretty intensely for the last 16 months or so, level 74 (of a max of 80).

Firstly, this is not in any way surprising or upsetting. Niantic's been pretty clear for a long time now that they were making location-based games for the purpose of training systems.

Secondly, I should note that POGO does not actually require you to take pictures of anything. It's an option, one way to do what Pokemon Go calls "Field Research Tasks" (FRTs), but "take a scan of that place" FRTs are a small subset of the FRTs you might choose to do (and when I was attempting to get as many as possible on my way to level 74 I ignored all the scanning ones).

Comment Re:LOL! Good! (Score 3, Insightful) 39

100%

Kevin Rose killed digg. He took what was good and ruined it.

Reddit embodied what was good about Digg and ran away with the market share.

As long as Reddit doesn't fuck with their algo, and try to pull a "Kevin Rose" (not unlike what Tik Tok just did) it will be ok.

Fuck digg, and fuck Kevin. Go back to making videos where you pretend you're "edgy" because you have a 40oz in a brown paper bag.

Comment Re:There's nothing surprising about this (Score 4, Informative) 59

Also, "helped FBI" is true but also misleading. Proton Mail does business in Switzerland, and is subject to Switzerland's laws. The Swiss authorities made a lawful data request of Proton Mail, which Proton Mail had to oblige, and then the Swiss authorities shared that data with the FBI.

Comment Re:And what exactly is illegal about this? (Score 4, Insightful) 49

Really minor note: You mentioned Biden using his power to help his sons. Biden has three adult children (He had a daughter who died in the same car accident his wife died in, in the 70s, when the daughter was about one year old; I'm not counting her). Of these three children, there are daughter Ashley (who has led a relatively boring life, other than having her diary at some point stolen by some people), and two sons, Beau and Hunter. These are the sons you'd have referred to.

Now, Hunter is a scumbag, and Biden did way too much to help him (including that pardon, though by Trump standards that was pretty mild). Beau, on the other hand, was a pretty respectable politician with nary a scandal attached to him, who sadly died way too young at 46 in 2015 (way before Biden became President, obviously).

So it's more how Biden helped his son (singular) than sons (plural).

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