Presumptive argument you’re making. Most people worried about the expiration of windows 10 support aren’t in the market to buy windows 10. They already have it. Either way, massgrave.dev exists and makes that a moot point.

What’s closed about LTSC IoT? Download, install, activate for free and carry on.

Switching from Windows to Linux isn’t an easy move for most people. Most of then freak the fu$% out at the tiniest difference, and Linux is not a tiny difference.

I switched before Windows 10 was released. I switched my Mom six months ago. Now she uses her work computer (win11) rather than her own laptop because, “the start button looked strange.” If you think a support deadline will get windows users (since the nineties) to suddenly adopt Linux, you haven’t been paying attention.

You’re preaching to the choir about MS shenanigans. But… For those who feel they need win10, there is an option to continue chugging along until 2031.

As for Linux being “superior” to Windows, I think most Windows plebs would disagree. It “just works” is what they think.

Sure. About 10% as edge case as Windows users making the switch to Linux. Those who are scared to move away from Windows to Linux can continue to use Win 10 IoT LTSC for another 5+ years. I shared this as a reminder that the end of support “coming soon” can be staved off for another half decade if desired.

I’d have to settle with LineageOS

Why wouldn’t LOS be affected? On the Calyx post you link to, they say it affects all custom OS projects.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021

End of extended support date: 2032-01-13T22:59:59

Every year, around 245 million PCs are shipped globally. If even 20–25% of those are gaming-focused, that’s 49–61 million gaming PCs annually.

That seems like a too-charitable estimate. I would guess that 95%+ computers built and sold are for business uses. Of the remaining 12M, I would further guess that 90%+ of those aren’t for gaming, but for Grandma and Pop to use “The Facebook,” and for Mom or Uncle to file their taxes and buy airline tickets. By my guesstimate, that could be around 1M gaming computers sold.

As an example, the place I used to work from ’16 to '21 bought about 700 computers yearly. One big year had us replacing about 3k desktops and about 300 laptops (changed from Dell to HP). My family (about forty of us from Grandma to my son) bought four in the past four years. Of those four, one was for gaming. My last gaming rig purchase was in March, and replaced an Intel 8xxx from 2015, which was itself just a mobo/CPU/RAM upgrade

It seems to me that almost all computers sold are for business, and only a tiny sliver are sold for gaming.

I don’t have anything else determinative to add about it. I just wanted to opine about the question of percentages.

This link says nothing. Has weirdly impossible statistics:

The most frequently used apps in our sample were Kickidler (49.8 per cent), Spyera (49.5 per cent), Flexispy (49.3 per cent), and Teramind (48.4 per cent).

Asks questions with no answers. I could have written a similar piece called, “The Path to Riches,” and then scribble out seven paragraphs on how money will be required to get rich. Might as well be AI swill.

I looked into these so-called “responsible” indexes a few years back. It seems that whenever I dug into them, they invested in companies that didn’t seem to fit the description. These don’t change that assessment. You don’t have to look past the second page to see the primary holdings are not “socially responsible” companies at all.

SRI holdings:

NVIDIA
TESLA
HOME DEPOT
COCA COLA
ASML HLDG
NOVO NORDISK
INTUIT
DISNEY (WALT)
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
BOOKING HOLDINGS

Tesla? Come on. Coca Cola? Implicated in more environmental destruction than some oil companies, not to mention their irresponsible use of local water resources, including locking up a sole source of water away from local tribes and villages. Novo Nordisk? A socially responsible pharmaceutical company? Dream on. Intuit? They lobby to make the tax code impossible to understand without professional help, and also to ensure we can never file our taxes for free. Disney? Too many issues to list here. Verizon? Known for red-lining; being complicit in gov’t domestic surveillance; making empty promises to get gov’t subsidies, pocketing the money and not bothering to do the required work: stealing taxpayer money. All of the holdings are financial backers of Trump and the GOP, and most of them happily removed all mention of diversity or equality from their public facing materials to cozy up to this administration.

If you really want social responsibility in a stock, you’re going to have to do the research yourself and find individual stocks that meet your definition. Any day, one of those companies could change their direction, could be exposed as participating in activities you wouldn’t have expected, or simply be bought and or taken over by a non-scrupulous competitor or parent company.

Otherwise, you just have to accept that our money will be part of the problem, and sigh, hoping that your investments at least hold up long enough for you to retire, and hopefully you don’t feel too guilty.

I know we want to invest in funds that aren’t evil, but I’m not convinced that social responsibility and trading publicly are compatible. At the very least, of not likely you’ll find these kinds of finds are anything more than ugly companies packaging the same ugly stocks and trying to appeal to your conscience.

ETA: the climate change one is just as bad, full of Amazon, Google, Microsoft…

Edit2: just invest in the total market, a la Bogleheads, and spend the proceeds responsibly. That’s the best you can do. Social responsibility is defined by the individual.

Edit3: Consider a solar panel company. Green energy is good right? What if you find that they source their materials from a country known for human rights abuses, in the backs of exploited workers? Or they pollute? Or they simply post on ex-Twitter about their favorite fascist leaders? Does that change the SR value to you?

Since we’re being pedantic (love it!), I’d add that monopoly is not required for enshittification. It may lead to monopoly, but that isn’t necessary. Amazon isn’t (arguably) yet a monopoly, nor is Facebook, but they are both certainly enshittified. You could argue they are effective monopolies, but the jury could deadlock there.

Cory was talking about platforms, not necessarily any capitalist venture, but it holds true that more than platforms can enshittify.

That said, things simply getting worse doesn’t fit my understanding, unless it follows the pattern below:

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

It is the MO of unregulated capitalism.

I’m running Nobara 42 (Fedora-based, created by Glorious Eggroll, the Dev who makes GE-Proton, responsible for the best gaming experiences on Linux presently) right now to get my 9070 working with Steam.

Having the 6.13 kernel wasn’t enough, as my former distro (MX) wasn’t planning on adopting Mesa 25.x for several months or longer. Every week or so, Nobara grabs newer Mesa builds and kernel updates and things work better. At first, HGL was black screen and audio only, but that only lasted a week.

Try it out and see what you think. What have you got to lose?

Yeah. The word really just breaks down to, “having been noticed widely.”

Thames Water has decided to “pause” its scheme to pay out big bonuses to senior executives linked with securing its £3bn rescue loan.

The decision comes after Downing Street said bosses at the troubled firm “rewarding themselves for failure is clearly not acceptable”.

The company’s “retention scheme” was set to amount to 50% of senior bosses’ pay packets, which could have led to them getting £1m on top of their annual salaries and regular bonuses.

Thames had been accused by the environment secretary of “trying to circumvent” forthcoming rules to ban water companies from paying bonuses.

Steve Reed told MPs on Tuesday the company had been “calling their bonuses something different so they continue to pay them”.

Downing Street added ministers were “clear that, after presiding over years of mismanagement, Thames Water should not be handing itself bonuses”.

Only ever played LSL6, so I’m interested in the topic, but Rumble?

indoor cats really struggle a lot if they ever get lost outside.

Curious by what you mean about struggling. Not trying to be simply contrary.

My (then) 16 month old, seven pounds wet with rocks in her pockets indoor cat escaped in 2018 and lived wild in rural Maine for 18 months before being trapped and returned to us (thanks to microchipping). She was 9 miles from home and had a broken paw (something fell on it and crushed her toes), but was otherwise healthy and in good spirits.

I tend to agree that a feral has an advantage based on common sense, but also that my tamed feral is a beast when he fights.

Edit: wrong quoted text

Have been using TrueNAS for 13+ years since the FreeNAS 9.x days. Can attest to its bulletproof-ness in my case.

Would second asking in the iX forums. I’ve managed to get replication help directly from iX staff before when using the forum. You shouldn’t have this issue, and you will find answers.

I’ve moved my disks to a completely new machine with fresh install and then import my config, reboot and everything is as it was. I’ve also done the same without my config and imported the pool with no problems, just need to recreate shares, and any jails (a feature which I no longer use) would need to be reconfigured to be 100% functional.

windows phone was a joke

No. It was leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. They just sat on their hands and didn’t do anything with it, allowing Google, RiM and Apple to steamroll them.

And to blame Microsoft (which – don’t get me wrong – is hugely evil and truly is the cause behind many of the problems you properly identify) for all of the tech problems without a hat tip to IBM is missing some important details. IBM showed the tech world that if you use your war chest to drag out a legal battle long enough, you will eventually get a president in power (Reagan) that you own enough to dismiss all claims. That’s how Microsoft got off without even a fine for all their antitrust violations. They played the long game and George W. waved a hand, making the enforcement effort go away.

So many great titles in the comments. I’ll add a few of mine:

Jill of the Jungle
Zaxxon
Heretic (Doom clone)
Stellar 7 (can’t recall if shareware or if I just shared it)

“I am da Shaddo wahdiyah. Lessuh fight!”

RoTT WAS SO FUN! How about heretic, another Doom clone? The chicken weapon was a favorite of mine.

Long before