Yeah, sorry, I'm not really complaining. And yes, I'm not a big fan of huge modern frameworks. gcc all the way, yeah !

;-) It's the 3rd iteration of this project. When I got it 15 years ago, I decided to do just that. Well, not really, I was tasked of writing a test program to see if it could replace part of the old one while the 'official replacement program' was being discussed, and since it worked fine I ended up rewriting the entire thing. The official program never got off the ground, but there is now talk of doing it for the 4th iteration... I want no part of it.
For the curious I work in scientific research

They're talking about LineageOS. Think Graphene but it doesn't just run on Google hardware. Over a hundred devices and they just added mainline kernel and qemu support so it potentially runs on thousands of devices.

Sadly with less hardening. I wish Lineage would take some Graphene patches. The crazy thing is Lineage descended from Cyanogenmod which had many of these patches!

I'm more scared of it than anything, particularly since I've been asked to add something after 10 years !

Who can I sue? I thought Microsoft said that Windows 10 would be "the last version of windows"

Should I spend all the money to upgrade to a new computer just so I can run Windows 11 for a few years?

Should I stay on defunct Windows 10 until Windows 12 is available? I would surely be upset if I bought a Win11 capable computer only to learn Win12 has all new incompatible requirements.

Has anyone reviewed the environmental impact of making all of the Win10 hardware go to the landfills?

I guess I will have to look up the best Linux option and make the move. The year of Linux has arrived for me. Thanks Microsoft!

... to see how many here FAILED to understand the point of the TFA.

Let's turn RAM into dollars to see if it makes it easier to understand the fucking point of the article: You have, say, $320 available. And you only need $3 of that to do the job you need to do. Why, for all the creatures of darkness, do you think you have to use all the $320 to do the same job just because you have $320? Is it because the $320 “is free” so you should use all of it? When out of the $320 available, you only need $3 to do the job?

Just because you have 32GB of RAM available doesn't mean you should waste it! And every mentally challenged individual who says, “Oh, memory is free now” should first be burned alive and then dismissed from any and all tasks vaguely related to programming.

It's a good thing to have an overproduction of food. It means that, with the proper distribution channels, everyone can eat; and if there's a bad year or two, like a volcano spewing ashes in the upper atmosphere like happens every 200 years or so, we won't all starve.
On the other hand having an overproduction means the prices fall down and farmers go broke. No easy way out...

There's a saying that goes "A complex software project that works started from a simple project that worked". For instance I have a 40k lines program that has been working non-stop for years without any memory leak or crash, and it started from a half-page of specs "to do a test" and then they kept asking me to add thing... Granted it now looks like a monstrous pile of kludges, but still...

If I want an app to draw over other apps (e.g. accessibility apps) I need to grant that permission (AOSP distro). How do they bypass that?

> I'd like to know how much blame each of these companies deserves

For paying a ransom?

How much for the Epstein Files?

I've been using KDE for 25 years and KDEwallet never bothered me and yet I've never used it. Maybe because Firefox doesn't interface with it ?

I'm not saying SElinux or Apparmor are useless, I'm saying they are too complex and too poorly documented and too steep of a learning curve for the average sysadmin, even more so for the average desktop user. If you receive a full week pro training to use them, good for you, but that doesn't work for most people.

SElinux and Apparmor are 2 of the worst and most obscure security systems I've ever seen. I have no idea what the main ideas behind either are and on what principles they work, and I've been on Linux for 25 years with all kinds of systems (embedded Pi, desktop, servers, etc...). I've never seen a proper introduction to either, the manpages are a block of lead on your head and they DO NOT work out of the box to the point where you just have to disable them if you want to keep on working. Apparmor pollutes the syslog with tons of garbage, and SElinux is the opposite, not a single message ever but things just stop working in obscure ways.

They can answer with all the market data that says that people like the noise.

You may not, but you're not everyone, are you?