For people who are "old" enough, and that "young" people have to be detained in mollycoddled prisons? That seems to be the for multiple countries so called online safety laws. Linux will get made illegal to use if they get their way, proprietary software is handcuffware, when they require anti cheat, who are the real cheaters?

Basically a computer operating system that respects you (Linux), combined with the app availability of Windows. Windows 7 was almost there in that regard and outlived Windows 8 and 10. Microsoft knew it so had to fabricate artificial end of support schedules to force people to use Microslop 11. Hopefully the threat of being hit in the head by a penguin will force Microsoft to stop enshittifiying Windows once the AI bubble pops. They've already lost in the phone market and have to bribe anti cheat makers to force gamers to use Windows, people are finally rising up to Microsoft's bullshit.

Just look into the wholesale chain, it's all the same suppliers using the same factory and using frankenfarm ingredients. It's slop all the way down. AI slop has gotten into your food supply.

Dell just needs to make working laptops that are just screen, touch pad, keyboard and sufficient ream and storage. As for Windows, people just want a taskbar, start menu, web browser and their usual apps and games. There's a reason why over 16 years later a significant amount of people still use Windows 7 despite the security risks.All the OEMs and Microsoft need to just stop making gimmicks and make Windows 12 an operating system that shuts up and let you get on with your work in peace or lose their trillions in market cap.That's it. No AI gimmicks needed. This goes for Linux and MacOS as well.

Cheaper and doesn't come with Microslop.

When software can't be freely shared and hardware not freely purchasable, the whole ecosystem fails. Now everything Unixy is Linux and BSD, with Illumos if you want the remains of Sun from the great Oracle lockdown.

Microsoft is just going through their old backup tapes to keep reinventing things since actually making a non annoying OS isn't profitable enough.

Reading a clock should be taught at early childhood when you're learning to count, including ones with roman numerals. It's not like analog clocks are uncommon. Virtually every living room has one. There are clock towers everywhere with analog clocks, you don't lose these skills without the previous generation also not teaching them. There's a reason why the UK never digitised Big Ben.

It looks like all the isps that wanted to adopt IPv6 already have, others have grandfathered or purchased IPv4 allocations and just leach off of it, especially Virgin Media in the UK which has a dedicated website about why it hasn't adopted IPv6. With only 2 billion people not on the internet remaining they can easily be squeezed into more CGNAT while IoT usually now uses vpns with their own network laid over the top making their ips irrelevant. The only real problem is websites that still block by IP instead of fingerprinting like Wikipedia as it is virtually impossible to edit Wikipedia on any mobile network now because of vandals burning up ip ranges.

Being a younger millennial from outside America I never seen it in its heyday but I've seen the episodes on Youtube and it showed me a Window to the world before Windows and the Internet took over.

The increasing deployment of Multi gigabit has made individual file downloads almost trivial and better codecs means even high resolution video only takes a few dozen megabits of bandwidth. On the other hand ddossing by AI bots and malware is eating a lot of the surplus bandwidth.

And you can become an instant billionaire.

It's rough around the edges but still user friendly, i'd rather deal with a few papercuts like driver issues and codec licences than deal with Windows 11's shit. Fedora is easier to install, you just insert the usb drive, boot, select partition, enter username password, timezone and keyboard layout and that's it. No messing around with creating Microsoft Accounts and dealing with the constant barrage of dark patterns. Just boycott anti-cheat games and enjoy the penguin experience.

The situation is that there is one company with a stockpile of now 15 year old floppies (when they were last manufactured in 2011) and whatever shows up on auction sites. There was someone experimenting with making their own a few months back but for the sake of legacy system presentation it would be good to get real floppies again. Yes emulators exist but not all legacy devices are capable of using them and nostalgia wants the real thing.

Enthusiasts kept audio cassettes in production, the same thing needs to happen with floppies (and a lot of other legacy tech too).

Deep down you know I'm right, Microsoft keeps being abusive with telemetry, TPM, secure boot, MS accounts, price rises and speaking yet out gets you called childish and modded troll. Enjoy your copilot bloatware, maybe asking it will make you understand.