Just experienced it this week, spend $30 on a game, asked for refund because the game does not look like screen images. Refunded, no questions asked.

I have been running OpenSUSE with nVidia for 7 years. No issues here.

Probably a great vehicle. Lightweight, good range, etc

I mean if I was a shitty corporation that wanted to onboard new clients I would do a sweet bait and switch later once they are dependant on the new system… And I don’t just mean Microsoft, it is common now

Or an EV

I would say that depends on why they are asking for help, you have got to get to the root of the issue first.

I got the notice to update to 11 a long time ago, then months later a notice my work laptop did not comply with requirements of TPM, but CPU OK.

For my HP workstation it had TPM 1.x and there was a firmware update that brought chip up to TPM 2.0. After I did that the W11 then said CPU doesn’t pass.

Then recently CPU is fine. LOL

They don’t even know what they want.

For home stuff everything is moved to Linux.

A non enforced requirement sounds like it is not a requirement.

The laughable part is the hardware list keeps slipping, my 2017 HP workstation said it was not supported due to CPU, now it recently changes to get ready for W11. Like all of a sudden when they see no one is adopting 11 as fast as they want they go and change requirements.

Are they? The ones I have met are whitish/Italian like tanish.

They still happen even on W10, but we support a lot of customers, that have a lot of users, so I probably encounter them more than a person with one or two PCs ( just statistically)

Often it were would be network or monitor connection.

HP workstations laptops I could blue screen consistently by plugging in my phone set to USB network tether. Immediate NDIS bluescreen. I don’t blame windows 100% for that, it just didn’t like seeing a new network device in the Kernel

I would have thought so too but a few colleagues had a few bluescreens, and the machines are not all the same make or model.

Just got a W11 laptop new from work, (replacing a dead W10 machine). It is such a mess. It is trying hard to be a modern desktop like KDE Plasma or GNOME, but without a cohesive setup. And bluescreened twice already, had a WebApp failure error, and locked up completely another time at login. This is brand-new Out of the Box.

Try OpenSUSE it has Yast2 GUI GTK. Graphical manager for packages, one-click install of downloaded RPMs from web sources. Full GUI for all system settings, services, etc. No CLI needed.

I have to bow out, all your points are apple apologists rhetoric, or are odd logic leaps that have been proven wrong. if you consume any technical or privacy based media you would know this. Have a good weekend.

You sir are deluded. And maybe that is by ignorance, Please go watch any of countless Louis Rossman videos about how apple claims a device irrepairable and he fixes it for 5 dollars. Etc. Soldered RAM, faulty switches , bad display cable, all easy fixes that the geniuses will suggest you buy new because it will cost as much to fix. Apple is an e waste producing company.

As for scanning peoples data, it already proved that it did more harm than good. CSAm people just change behaviors ur, and you have legit people having their accounts frozen and police called when their doctor during covid asked for photos of skin rashes. It is hard for an innocent guy to live down arrest for false child porn. Don’t drink all the koolaid.

365 is helpful, but feature parity between app and web app is not perfect, and files done in web have compatibility issues when somebody opens on app version. Also have had issues on collaboration where somebody left their laptop open with autosave on, so all my changes and corrections kept getting overridden whenever their system autosaved. Terrible implementation.

Better how?

Apple will happily throw away a good machine to sell you a new one, their eco friendlyness and repairability scores are self scored bullshit.

Having police access to everyone’s phone would not make people safer. You would not have enough police to monitor and it is a backdoor for hacking.

Just like Intel Management Engine that gave hackers passwordless entry into machines. Having control like that is not safety.

Plus anyone with physical access is going to defeat security anyway.

My linuxOS has a MOC signed by microsoft, an OS can work on TPM with a signature…hackers will find a way to spoof into it

HP has a tool to upgrade TPM firmware from 1.x to 2.0.

I had an HP Zbook Workstation. With TPM1.x Initially said get ready for W11, then months later meeage: this model fails TPM 2.0 requirement, CPU OK. I used HP firmware tool to upgrade from TPM 1.x to TPM2.0. A recheck with W11 a few months later: TPM OK, CPU no good. Last month the message about the system not being upgradeable to W11 disappeared and replaced with a link: to learn more about W11. Wtf. Do they even know what system requirements they need?

Lenovo did this when they bought Iomega NAS devices. The final firmware before they ended support added google ads to the web admin interface. So now I have it booting Debian and OpenMediaVault, bye bye Lenovo.

BLINX! Thanks. I loved that game. I don’t think I have played Sands of Time. I will have to try that.

What was that Xbox game where you had rewind time as part of the gameplay…the character was Buzby or something…a animal creature with a vacuum cleaner type weapon

If a company needs so much from the tax payer to stay afloat, to me that means they can’t be trusted with money since they mismanage already, or they don’t have a marketable product to sell. Any payouts should equal government ownership

Mercenaries?

Sure maybe best cloud gaming experience, but is an avid gamer really going to switch to sonething like that. I’m not a hard core gamer, but I do find game delay stuff annoying, I can only imagine playing over cloud is worse

Wasn’t what stopped google was poor user experience? Trying to prerender all possible frames so there is no lag when user changes direcrion etc on streamed gaming seemed like a waste of resources also.

It is also taking on technical debt, as each revision can come with OS quirks, and you now have to support X numbet of versions of hardware/software troubleshooting.

If you have a large work budget, then Siemens NX (version 12 or less) runs on RHEL or SUSE.

Did you miss the recent security blunder with Government security and Microsoft? They didn’t want to tell governments of a secuirty hole in case it meant lowers sales.

Even if they don’t send data, it is a treasure trove for a hacker to get. Such a terrible idea MS came up with.

I found the opposite. Even my obsure printer that needed tons of windows tweaks and drivers just worked on Linux.

The only device that needed help was a 6-axis 3D mouse. Linux saw it as a mouse/tablet xy input. But Windows needs drivers for it to function. They had a Linux driver for it, so I installed that to get the 6axis working.

For now, until MS locks that downvlike they have with other things

Imnersive view on firefox works well for those sites too

If you want to borrow a digitized bok from their library you need a login.

Some cities have armoured vehicles but that has faced defunding, because it is a stupid waste of resources

Police here are also often using excessive force, especially on indigenous people, or people having a mental health crisis. Which can be intense injuries or death, and they seem immune to consequences. Thankfully our general citizens have not yet shown that level of aggression towards each other.

you realize longgun is not a musket loader, but a category of guns that have a barrel right? Like besides owning HandGuns we can also own rifles and shotguns. But we don’t have gun violence like the US does where kids need kevlar backpacks

The solution is gun culture changes and mental health for all. In Canada we can own long guns or handguns, but there is a level of respect and responsibilty that goes with it, that USA seems to lack.