The reliability and speed of the windows updater with the security of third parties.
What could possibly go wrong.

The time of developers and infra admins cost way more than running the hardware.

The extra complexity that this introduces either directly by configuration or indirectly by incompatibilities or even worse security vulnerabilities is not worth it.

Once you get big enough that the HW cost become a significant factor, you should have enough capital to switch.

Problem is that from the point of the view of the OS nothing changed.
Crowdstrike uses a driver shim that loads external code with improper error handling.
The driver didn't change, only the loaded external code that is pretty much invisible to the OS, so there is no last known good configuration to fall back to.

"scenes depicting a violent and tumultuous period in the country's modern history"

9 of the top 20 bloodiest events in history according to "Atrocities" by Mathew White, involved the Chinese. Sometimes civil wars, sometimes Mongols, sometimes Communism.
The result: between 7-40 million Chinese dead every single time.

So they've had quite a number of "tumultuous periods".

Details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That might actually be the problem.

The features that power users depend on are usually better served by alternative shells. (For example I use TotalCommander).

Normal users don't use them at all. So the telemetry in Windows records:
- normal users don't use these features
- power users don't use these features inside Explorer

Wait a sec you're telling me that the problem of Near Field Communication is that it's ... Near Field? And that you want to extend the range at which your card can be scanned? Also wtf is this about 5mm. Just yesterday I payed with my phone hovering it 100mm above the POS terminal. With a phone case that has metal bars on the back for support. It already has more range than it should have.

"having many smaller, perhaps more local, sites" So kinda like the internet was back in the day. We've come full circle.

On what planet is 48Hz a high refresh rate? You can buy 144Hz 4k monitors right now and you can even get 120Hz 4k projectors.

Renewables are susceptible to extreme weather:

Drought kills hydro.

Intense heat ignites photovoltaic panels and snow/frost needs constant cleaning.

Wind is diminished in heatwaves and is vulnerable to frost.

(See Southern China's historic heatwave and drought for details)

Tidal and geothermal are dependent on geography.

Biodiesel while cleaner will result in famines as the farming industry moves from growing food to fuel.
Ethanol is similar in this regard.

Nuclear has it's own share of issues, see Chernobyl, Fukushima and Zaporizhzhia.

So pick your poison, but I recommend diversifying, because no perfect technology exists. Also keep in mind that the real world works on economics, so don't achieve 0 emissions by starving the population. Hungry people don't care about carbon emissions.

Up until very recently intel had no discrete GPUs with dedicated VRAM.

Since nobody has them, nobody could test them. It's a fair assumption that if you have an intel GPU you are using system RAM for it's framebuffer.

Define "violent". In an unmistakable, concise, logical, machine describable way that leaves no room for interpretation.

Of course no such description is possible, as such no perfect way to block it exists.

The definitions and vocabulary changing every year doesn't help matters either. "Silence is violence" - yeah code that into a bayesian filter.

Windows Server 2022 and it's out now.

All these automated takedowns on all the platforms have made copyrighted music radioactive.

Notice how the basic purpose of this: to license the songs for money, never ever comes up. The last time I've read about a youtuber licensing music was when he got struck by the bots even though he streamed the song legally.

Overall this development reduces the amount of copyright infected songs being played which is a good thing in my book.

Another thing to turn off after install. My current list:
-Search
-Cortana button
-Task View button
-People on taskbar
-Meet button

Then uninstall all the squares in the start menu.

This is getting to the point where I might just write a script to do it.

Guess what, the DMCA takedown bots don't care if you've licensed or not.
They'll strike you down regardless as youtoubers have found out.

The funniest ones are where the bots struck the music author's videos.

So overall it's not worth it to license the music, you'll just have more hassle to prove that you own the music while your revenue is taken or worse, video blocked.