Microsoft officially out of ideas. And Windows 98 did it with 512 times less ram.

There was an open source encyclopedia that allowed copying, such a thing certainly doesn't exist...

Until AI flesh-robots start talking to me on the street I'm safe.

At least when a cd rom was infected they could be recalled and replaced. I just know that Windows update will get hacked one day and have 1 billion computers ransomwared. It will probably be an AI hallucination from a dev team overworked from layoffs.

Microsoft defender and Apple Xprotect need to remove crawlerware the same as cryotominers were in 2018, and Linux now needs anti virus because of crawler malware too. If you have legitimate crawler needs, contact and consent with webmasters first and ask them for site dumps legitimately. I'm fed up of cloudflare prompts to constantly verify my browser which doesn't work with niche and legacy browsers so we need to go after crawlers at the source.

Are Wayland fixing all the remaining bugs (Gnome/Red Hat/Ubuntu is going no way back to X11 soon so will force the issue), Proton getting anti cheat working and Proton being refocused for desktop apps like MS-Office and Adobe, and getting drivers for every obscure piece of hardware. Do this, and Linux could easily get 10-20% market share from those who want to use it. (It's already 6% now). I'm kind of forced to use Windows 11 on my main pc despite trying Linux every once and a while for over 20 years. Plus Linux distro makers need to make OEM deals with stores like Bestbuy, Wal-Mart and Currys/PC City (In Europe) again marketing itself as an alternative for the end of Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP legacy computers. Sell Linux install USBs with "Grandma-proof" booting instructions (I've seen some advertised before).

Linux already won on supercomputers and on Mars, why is the desktop taking over a third of a century? Windows 95 was 30 years ago and was considered the "perfect" desktop even if it had limitations like fat16 limiting hard drives to 2GB initially.

Microsoft has made their decision, they want their "palladium" vision of everyone running new hardware locked down with TPM, Secure boot and an MS account. They are also making ARM more popular to make it harder to boot Linux due to limited hardware support. This is Microsoft's vision. If you don't like it, then "Tux" (on hardware specially made for Linux like Pinebook or System76), or "Fux" (submit to Microsoft's vision). Like I said in my previous post, you have had 34 years to make up your mind, Microsoft is a money printer now, with 4 a trillion market cap that's symbiotic with Nvidia and AI companies. Remember that Bill Gates was the first person to be worth more than what Dr Evil demanded, this is the way of Microsoft, and proprietary software companies like Intiuit, Autodesk, Epic Games, and Adobe will follow suit as they want locked down computers to enforce subscriptions and anti piracy/anti-cheat.

If you still use windows in 2025 you give your consent to its practices. Stop playing anti cheat cucked games and subscription cucked software and the problem goes away.

Most "AI" in computers is just an NPU that sits unused and bundled spyware "assistants". The chatbots fight over each other just like browsers fight to be the default.

$34 billion is a lot of money, fund real browser independence instead . While you're at it make a compensation fund for all the scraping bandwidth you wasted.

Even though Wikipedia has a lot of knowledge, it does have a lot of vandalism, hoaxes and harassment issues that should be regulated, with some compromises so as not to violate privacy. This needs to have a serious conversation beyond just the courts.

Microsoft should be forced to provide security updates in perpetuity. Stop making AI gimmicks and support people who use their computer for actual work. Car companies have to provide parts for decades so should Microsoft. They can afford it since they have more money than Dr Evil demanded.

Slashdot users made a big deal out of it over 20 years ago but we got it, along with age and id verification plus the requirement to pay for phone service to verify your id on the internet. Even Slashdot is in the game now since new Slashdot accounts have to be approved by staff. I hope you feel safe and woolly now sheep, because the wolves (spammers, cheaters and scammers) ruined it for the rest of us.

Since Universal owns the Minions characters, surely they should crack down on all the AI Minion slop already out there.

Written in Cebuano, plus had "human slop" written in the Scots Wikipedia. Wikipedia isn't in a position to lecture anyone about "slop". Then there is all the constant clickbait in the Did You Know section that makes Wikipedia's Main Page look like Taboola. Wikipedia's arrogance is getting to them, and the fact that most admins have left and they struggle to recruit more even with admin elections means that Wikipedia will be as quaint as that Encarta CD gathering dust. Wikipedia ruined my life, I welcome its replacement.