Software as a Scam!

People will wise up eventually.

How do we sue the USA for polluting our our world?

they get to control the ad infrastructure and the data that comes from the full Google suite,

Well I want at least a free phone and $50 per hour for the ads they force on me.

I no longer use my Samsung phone for the Internet - the experience is horrendous. If I don't have access to a Linux/BSD machine, I don't use the internet. I am not going to upgrade my phone till it breaks. Probably then I will use a dumb phone.

Please EU, lets have an EUtube!

.. bugs as we know them.

Replacing them with something infinitely worse!
Bugs as we don't know them. That are impossible to find, let alone fix. With every possibility that using AI to fix them will make them worse.

"yes"

or possibly
"No".

YMMV

besides, you can customize the goddamn ribbon

But if you work on five different computers over the course of a day, customizing will get you beaten up by five different people every day.

We grew up with an alphabetic writing system, why on earth would Microsoft want to replace that with indecipherable icons?

Because a significant percentage of Americans are illiterate, and MS thinks America is the whole world.

Hint for MS: Illiterates probably are not using a word processor.
(Unless preparing word salads for Trump to eat).

You can't handle the truth! (MS)

Should Job-Seekers Stop Using AI to Write Their Resumes?
If they are to be expected to use AI in their jobs ( which is invariably going to be the case ) - shouldnt Job Seekers demonstrate an aptitude for using it ?
Cant have it both ways....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

... 100% of AI is total garbage.

Bill Gates is right - AI will destroy 100% of Microsoft jobs - it is well on the way already.

But companies providing decent goods and services will probably flourish if the competition is totally focused on flogging AI slop.

The difficulties described are consequences of Apple’s proprietary platform design, not evidence that Linux or ARM are immature ecosystems. Conflating ISA compatibility with platform openness is a fundamental misunderstanding of how hardware enablement works.

“Linux doesn’t feel ready for ARM yet. Many apps aren’t compiled for ARM.”

This is the weakest argument in the article.

ARM Linux is widely deployed on:

Billions of Android devices (Linux kernel)
Most cloud hyperscalers (Graviton, Ampere)
Raspberry Pi ecosystem
Embedded and industrial systems
Major distros eg:
Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian have mature AArch64 support.

And today most open-source software compiles cleanly for ARM64.
Browsers, compilers, containers, dev tools are fully native.
Even Steam supports ARM via translation layers.

The real issue is x86-only proprietary binaries.

That’s not Linux-on-ARM immaturity.
That’s legacy x86 ecosystem inertia.

Even Apple solves this via Rosetta — a translation layer.
Linux uses FEX or box64 for similar purposes.

Translation instability platform immaturity.

I guess the source is MSN though ...

It's probably stuff like the age of the account. If it's 10 years old, the chance that the owner is under 13 and registered it as a toddler is quite small.

Can someone please tell this to Ebay.
They regularly sent me emails in which they thank me for being a user for more than 21 years, but request I use a credit card to verify my ID to prove my age if I am trying to buy a tool with a sharp edge. (including a pair of scissors with a blade less than 1" long).

I live in the UK, and do not have a credit card. I do have several debit cards. Ebay does not seem to understand that some parts of the world are not in America.

It's a bit of a moot point. Systems that aren't receiving general OS updates wouldn't receive updated bootloaders anyhow. So they wouldn't need the updated certificates that allow for bootloaders signed after June 2026.

It gets a bit tautological, but only systems that are getting updates need updates.

Wen I was doing this in the UK, I was asked "what is the worst case scenario?"

and the correct answer is ...
Fully armed fighter jets fall on central London, and YOU get the blame!