Me too, sick of this shit: YOU have not proven anything.
Your arguments are just politics: you don't know the arguments that Apple bashes it. It might be they want it in another way or just the fact that they want it.
As for Apple's own privacy policy...do you really believe their own statements? And I'm not single-ing out Apple here. You should NEVER trust a corporation.

This is an era of death by 1000 cuts. Some wake-up at 10th cut, others at 900th.

PS: just skimmed through that policy. Why would you allow/give Apple your health information and financial data? Your really trust them? It's under "personal data Apple collects from you". You do realize they are NOT bound by HIPPA. HIPPA only applies to doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies. Any other company that has it, can do legaly whatever they can & want (unless they got it from one of those categories).

PS2: this reminds me of a "The Mask" cartoon episode: "That guy is destroying my city!....Only I get to do that!"

That was already done by ommiting the GNU part in GNU/Linux. This was the main reason I actually opened this article.

My take on "social media" is simple:
- What do they want? Money
- How do they get it? Presenting ads
- How do they increase ad numbers? Making you watch their site
- How do they make you watch their site? Presenting articles similar to what you previously agreed.

Now, compare the "free" time a scientist (STEM) has to the "free" time of non-workers (stay at home moms come to my mind now, but others to be included) or some low-wage workers (because hey...if they've had a good college degree and could use it, they would not be working there).

So if somebody throws a bait (misinformation)...who do you think will repeat it? Also, if a STEM-person tries to dispute it with evidence (for which he has to do unpaid work), how many will flood with comments and drown him? STEM-type people just don't have the numbers or time to fight it (besides them wanting to present it correctly).

4th of July top-10 FB links had 8 from proven republican-supporting/anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers (Tucker, Shapiro and more). Because that's how they keep their base interracting and on FB. Therefore those accounts get more money. It doesn't matter WHAT you present as long as your followers react to it; and you get money.

Example on my personal account (small one, 4 posts in 2 years), I clicked maybe 3 times this year on news about local car crashes. Guess what kind of articles FB shows me now? After the 3rd one, the next day I got served with 5 accidents in the 1st 10 articles.

AI might be artificial, but it's NOT INTELLIGENT.

Well it's much better than with Gnu/Linux. And yes, they do (or at least did) make extra effort to keep older apps working. At least the popular ones. Games released for Windows XP (15 years old) still run great (with new drivers), if you solve copy protection issues. You take 5-year old source code for Linux (forget about binaries), and it won't even compile. Drivers or apps.

But SQL Server is their own product, they did just what is necesssary and it's targetted for servers, not desktop. Windows is "known" for it's backward compatibility. And then think about their current drivers.

If they do a NEW OS to sell alongside Windows, then yes, linux kernel may be targetted.
But for replacing the current Windows kernel and keep all current apps&drivers working (otherwise who would use it), I would rather think they would go for a Unix kernel, not linux, if only because of licensing. I don't see MS open-sourcing all their kernel changes to comply with GPL (which isn't even GPL3).
Sony actually has a unix kernel in their Playstations (I know about 3+, but the older ones may apply also).

In short: Linux? No. Unix? possible.

There you go, thinking 80% of hospitals represent 100%.
There are hospitals that barely pay their doctors and nurses and require patients to buy+bring their own "stuff" like alcohol, bandages, medication (as in IV medication and others that hospitalized patients may need).
Do you really think those hospitals have the IT infrastructure to survive a bad patch? Do you think those hospitals can afford good IT people?
And to the next question of "where are such hospitals", I don't know about US, but Eastern Europe countries have them. If I'd have such a good imagination I wouldn't be typing on /. .

I hold MS responsible because of bad practices (like treating consumers as beta-testers) and bloated OS monopoly.
How would you handle a car updating itself while cruising on a highway? In Automotive, a SW is tested for months before reaching a consumer car, and the SW is maybe 1% of what Windows is.

Yup....how else can you prove a point that 0.1% is not acceptable.

10.1.2.7

So, what you are saying is that Hitler's actions of killing 3 million people is insignificant because it's less than 1% of world population estimated at 2 billion.

Or that MS can't mess up because users are using the wrong HW. Just like Apple is not responsible for Mac keyboards that users do not air-blow every month.

What if your small community hospital records are erased during this pandemic because of MS bullshit policy? You may say "but it's not critical to life-saving". But it's critical to triage and organizing. People could get killed because they can't get help in time (or the wrong help), while IT has to repair a monopoly's forced bullshit.

I said before, my #1 problem with MS is that non-critical fixes to forced bloat are treated the same as critical kernel fixes. I can't trust what they deem critical (this was better seen in W7 updates, which you could filter before applying).

PS: the only optional thing I've seen is feature updates. Even those are not indefinately optional.

I dont' know about SP2 (was that with DX12-updates????), I'm still using SP1 installed years ago. No problems here running games and I don't know of any game on Steam that won't work. Googling Win10-only games, DX12 or MS-store is mentioned: latest GoW, Forza, Halo...while they may be "worth playing", they are less than 10% of the "worth playing" from the past 8 years. Even 3 years. My newest game was SW Jedi Fallen Order. Even Metro Exodus lists W10 as "recommended" only.
Only MS-published exclusive games will refuse older Windows, due to MS agenda. Other Devs don't care that much and will follow stats like Steam usage. I don't expect MS "sponsored" titles to be outside of MS store. And I expect Win7 will loose towards 8.1, as those that stuck with 7 until now will not switch to 10.

PS: I'm using a 2nd PC with ubuntu for everyday stuff, so I'm not concerned about security. + it's always inside of my dd-wrt network (nowadays, who connects to the home internet without a router?).

PS2: MS is a monopoly and should be investigated again. Consumers and small businesses are beta testers, as enterprises can delay deployments, keep the telemetry internally and change defaults.

Well, I have an Oculus Rift. But I bought it for a specific reason: racing games (I also have a 400 Eur racing chair).
My conclusion is it's good for home use only on games where the 1st person character is strapped. So car simulators, space sims, maybe mech.
In FPS, you have a conflict between regular turn (mouse) and head turn. If you mouse turns your view, you get motion-sick.

PS: It took me a week to find what tunings I need for racing games. Basically I had the view move with the car (default for all games), which is excellent/best for (multi-)monitor, but that slight movement of the horizon with no other fixed reference (hint: your room) triggers motion-sickness. So I need the camera fixed to ground and have the car move by itself on branking/curbs. And uneven tracks still have an effect.
PS2: Due to the hassle of extra device(s), I actually did not play more than 50hr in the 2 years I have it. Bigger monitor is less hassle (I'm currently thinking about an ultrawide)

I agree...it's an arms race of smart-gadgets to stupid drivers. As the old computer saying: no matter how fool-proof an interface is, there will always be someone who screws it up.

I try to think as how ABS affected accidents: rate was not affected, only has moved towards single-car accidents (due to easier avoidance). And now threshold braking is a fad for us racer wannabes (and real racers).

Oh...and let's not forget about 1-in-100 trips were the driver is in a hurry (yes...even more than normal) and tries to speedup by himself without the other 99-drives experience (assuming self-driving ECUs will not brake the law).

PS: I am not a patient man, and even today I do rat-runs, even if they cost me 10-20% more time, but at least I'm not stopped on main roads during rush-hour and allow myself to exit "driving mode".

Wow...Thanks! I missed that news..guess PV will get one more month from me.

So, I got really annoyed when I started getting 2 ads (not even 5s skippable), and even wanted to completely stop watching youtube....then I realized how hypocrite I am:
- about 1 month before, I stopped PrimeVideo because twitch would still show me 30s unskippable ads of their shows (the Gran Tour was the only reason for it, which ended 1 year ago....3 month twitch video retention was nice, but ads were the last straw)
- I still payed HBOGo for GoT which I still did not finish watching (left it somewhere in the final mid season)
- when the 1st ads (w/ 5s skip) started appearing, I wished for an ads-free subscription.
So I just started paying Google instead (actually I'm still in free trial). But...it took me a full week for this decision.
The problem is, I use 3 browsers (Chrome is the only one logged to Google for GMail and Youtube) and I still get ads in Firefox/Chromium where I search (google.com) stuff and sometimes click on youtube. And, out of principle, I still wish they remained at 5s skippable-only ads. Comparing to Twitch, I always favored Youtube for this.

Who decides it's vital? For the students at the beginning, everything would be "vital" (what somebody sais he "needs" is mostly what he "wants", but not really need).
I avoided social apps and have facebook for maybe 2 years (still no twitter, no instagram). I check it once, maybe twice per day.
My phone stays mostly in standby, to be available when called (which is rare by itself). So I laugh at phone reviews when they say "this really is a full day phone", when I can get 4 days out of it, with data enabled for gmail & whatsapp.

PS: I also use connected watches (not smartwatches), where battery life is measured in weeks.