I've given up on expecting the start menu to do anything anymore. Knowing Microsoft, they'll maliciously misinterpret your feature requests and make things worse, like what they did with the seconds counter of the system clock.

Training AI to spot those eyes should be child's play. (Unless it flags too many owls to be useful.)

Oh! It's for your safety! If you have nothing to hide, what's the problem. YEAH RIGHT

As in, "We have to protect you from changing your gender or having an abortion, because Fox Jesus doesn't like that, he told us while we were taking a constipated shit on a Holy Golden Toilet."

I trust those guys as far as I can throw Donald, and I have a bad back.

It is lazy lawfare.

Patents on software are a net drain of resources on our economy. Most software "inventions" are not in giant Edison-like labs, but situational happenstance. As an incentive system, it sucks. And the patent office can't tell the rare gems from trash patents such that the net result is waste on trash patents.

Nukem!

My father did prior art of that in the college ARPANET lab in the late 70's.

Placoderms invented the mouth 440 million years ago. That's very prior art.

Now they can rig ElonGPT to ignore their own evil trades. MAGA!

...experience and incremental innovation rather than strive for cutting-edge moon-shots. Long-term investments keep biting companies in the tush such that they have trimmed that. Current ROI formulas used in practice expect a return on investment by about 5 years*.

Also, they often move cutting edge research to the 3rd world because Masters and PhD's are much cheaper to rent there. Brain-intensive work is being outsourced.

* Japanese and EU companies tend to be more patient, for good or bad.

Do note that each vax update tends to be one or two variants behind when one actually gets the shot in practice. Covid is gradually becoming more like the "common" flu: a family of viruses that mix, match, and rotate.

All configuration options are under control of system administrator. Yet somehow there are still plenty of security issues caused by bad configuration.

To err is human.

> but do find one side complains more loudly about the other...

That's not as important as which side spins or denies science the most.

Re: "amazing that MS has been the main biz desktop OS for almost 40 years"

I was thinking Windows, but longer if you include DOS.

putting a feature back in that's been there since windows 95

Microsoft just keeps recycling both their good ideas and bad ideas in semi-cycles, kind of like fashion where jeans get skinny, then bell-bottom, back to skinny, etc. etc. etc.

Looking like they are innovative appears more important than being innovative, or at least easier to fool the masses with. Youngbies find disco new and fresh, yet I've seen it come in and out of style multiple times. Just give it a different name. It's not Clippy, it's Copilot, and it loves you, Dave!

It is kind of amazing that MS has been the main biz desktop OS for almost 40 years. Nash Equilibrium? (AKA, QWERTY Syndrome.) I would have bet that something would sink it by now...still waiting. (I have suggestions if any big tech co. wishes to aim at MS, a better bet than Yet Another Datacenter.)

I find it odd that MS keeps adding NEW bugs to MS-Paint and changing shit around for no known reason. Digital entropy? WTF are they doing with it?

(I know, I shouldn't use MS-Paint, but old habits are hard to kick, and competitors make equivalent operations harder.)