Yes if and ONLY IF your software fits into the "Blessed Trinity" of selling hardware, support (which gives the company an incentive to make buggy and/or incomplete software so you have to pay them to "fix" it) or eBegging. If your software doesn't fit those models? You are royally fucked with FOSS, which is why so much of the end user software is frankly mediocre compared to commercial software.
Where is the FOSS video game that can compete with something like Bioshock, a game that came out over a decade ago? Hell several game engines have been made open source, plenty of free tools...oh wait, games don't fall under the Blessed Trinity so all the FOSS offerings will always be subpar. Where is the image editor than can compete with Photoshop or even Paintshop Pro from a decade ago? Not like people haven't been pointing out for ever that Linux sorely needs a competitive replacement...oh wait, doesn't fit the Blessed Trinity so again you are SOL.
From games to productivity to bookkeeping to inventory management to a billion other jobs people use computers for there are a ton of use cases where software simply doesn't fit the Blessed Trinity so the FOSS model simply will not work.
Pssst....the secret word is "GameCopyWorld" where 90%+ of the cracks? Are Steam cracks.
So if the game is on Steam? Yeah their "DRM" makes SecuROM look like NSA supercrypto, its been known for years that Steam DRM is a joke and is only there to give the publishers a magical rock that gets them to STFU while making it so Cleetus in BF USA can't just throw his game folders in a zip file and slap them on BT. Everybody else? Can just slap a Steam crack in the folder and voila! Everything plays just fine.
The real "DRM" we have to worry about these days is online only games but with those they can be 100% DRM free and it doesn't matter as the code is never on your system in the first place, its on a server somewhere and will only work as long as that server still functions. I'm sure there are plenty here that think that is "wrong" or evil but after having several games that I played completely ruined by cheaters with aimbots and wallhacks? I'm sorry but if its a competitive PVP you really need the game running on a companies servers where they can constantly monitor for cheaters, as nothing kills a game faster than a bunch of douchebags using hacks to make sure they always win.
Riiight, cuz there aren't any OSX, Linux, or Android bugs and they haven't existed for decades...oh wait. As you can see the first malware wasn't even for MS-DOS, it was on DEC PDP-10.
Did MSFT make serious fuck ups? Yup and so has Linux, OSX, Unix,DEC, IBM with their System OSes, if its able to run programs and is more complex than a Hello World program? There is gonna be bugs, because humans are fallible.
Considering there actually is an online map now that tells you which SF streets are currently covered in human feces and they are having to spend half their street cleaning budget just to deal with all the shit and needles covering their sidewalks? Frankly I'd say whether someone puffing some blueberry ecig is gonna get cancer 20 years from now should be the LEAST of their worries.
If its more than a year or two old? Its degraded, because lithium ion batteries degrade over time, "new old stock" is not gonna change chemistry.
But hey, if you want to buy a degraded battery or a knock off from Ali Express? I 100% support your right to do so, I simply believe the companies should also have the right to make sure its appropriately marked so its not being passed off as OEM, no different than how you can make bags that LOOK like a Gucci, but you can't sell it as a Gucci bag.
You see now that Threadripper is kicking the shit out of Intel and taking its lunch money and stuffing it in a locker? Companies have been dumping Xeon workstations on eBay like its going out of style and that has driven the prices down quite a bit, I've been seeing 3.4Ghz 8 thread Xeon workstations (capable of being upgraded to 16 thread if you need more power) going for right around $200, and that is with a 1Tb drive, Win 10 Pro licensed and installed, and 8-16Gb of RAM. Slap in a $50 SSD for the OS and TADA! You have a nice gaming PC ready for the card of your choice.
I'm currently sticking with my FX-8320e because its still playing my games at 1080p 80FPS+ while recording at 1080p 30FPS but the second that drops below 60FPS? I'll grab one of those workstations, as I have had several friends grab 'em to replace their aging quad core gaming PCs and they are just happy happy joy joy with how well they perform and most of the Xeon CPUs are a hell of a lot cheaper to grab than i7s when you want more threads and/or more speed later.
Okay, I'll play Devil's Advocate. For one thing Chinese replacement batteries? Can blow up, blow up REAL good. Anybody who has dealt with Chinese batteries can tell you their Lithium Ion batteries are dodgy as fuck, but are you gonna force manufacturers to keep making batteries for devices they no longer sell, batteries that have a shelf life and take up space, because some consumer down the road MAY actually replace the battery instead of just shitcanning it and getting another? Because if you don't force them most devices made this year are gonna be obsolete next year so they ain't gonna make batteries for that model so see dodgy Chinese batteries.
Second one relates to the first...as we have seen with everything from hard drives to Wifi chips there is a ton of ways to hide malware in stuff these days and most of the parts are gonna be coming again from dodgy Chinese factories (because the OEM won't be making last years model parts, they'll be busy working on the new hotness with whatever is hot that year like phone notches or notchless with camera behind the screen or extra wide screens or whatever) and if its one thing we've learned the past few years its the Chinese government wants to suck up data more than even Google which is saying something. Are the consumers gonna blame the dodgy Chinese company who put in the bug when it comes out they've all been duped and the reason their device feels like its gonna melt is its been turned into a bitcoin miner? Nope they are gonna blame the OEM,
Now personally I'm all for letting folks get their stuff fixed from whomever they want, and that anybody should be able to import after market or refurb parts to fix these devices, but OTOH I can also see the OEMs deserving at least a way to let the consumer know if that used device they are picking up on eBay is using genuine OEM parts or Cheapo Chinese Crap, same as how AFAIK you aren't allowed anywhere to take a car out of the junkyard, fix it up and then sell it without a salvage title to let people know its been busted up. To me that is fair to all parties and personally I'd like to know if that device I'm buying used has a real OEM screen and battery or is hacked together from parts on Ali Express or the replacement part I get is the real deal or a fake.
Isn't Open Shell for Win 10 users? Because as I said Win10 is a DO NOT WANT and the version of Classic Shell hosted by Ninite seems to work rock solid on 8.1 with the latest patches.
I mean sure it SAYS 7-10 but if they are trying to keep it working on the constantly moving alpha build that is Win 10 I can imagine its probably buggy as fuck and the whole reason I'm sticking with 8.1 is I want a super stable system. Last thing I want is to deal with my shell crashing while I'm in the middle of work, especially since Classic Shell has never had so much as a single hiccup since being installed 2 years ago, can you say the same of Open Shell?
Not to mention how many people are gonna be willing to give up EVERYTHING ELSE just to game with this service? Because I can tell ya with a 1Tb a month cap between the wife and her YouTube, Daughter in law and her netflix, 2 Grandkids streaming video and the third getting games from the XB1 store plus my own PC games? I've come within 80Gb of hitting my cap, and that with the games all being bought and downloaded ONCE.
Now most of the gamers I talk to are like me, they aren't the only member of their household, despite the "gamers are lonely basement dwellers" BS we've seen in the media and those wifes/GFs, kids, brothers/sisters etc? They want to use the Internet too and this service is not only gonna blow through the caps like crap through a goose but how bad is it gonna be for those that are also trying to use the net? I can't even imagine how bad its gonna suck for anybody else trying to use the net when someone in the house is streaming 1080p 60fps, much less 4k.
Finally the last elephant in the room which is now that the mining bubble burst PCs capable of gaming? Pretty damn cheap, hell you can buy 8 thread Xeon workstations that are total overkill for gaming for sub $200, the FX-8350 which can still play most 2019 games at 1080p is going for $65 on Newegg and the big hang up was GPUs and now eBay and the stores are just flooded with 'em, hell you can get a R9 380x for like $60 and I've seen GT1060s going for sub $130. When you figure up how much going over the data cap is gonna bite into your wallet? This entire idea is just dumb, especially with the market so flooded with cards you can grab a $100 PC off of eBay and slap in a $60 card and do 1080p 60FPS all day long without screwing everyone else in the house out of bandwidth or constantly throwing more cash at your ISP as you keep blowing the cap.
Or they can just delete the unACE.DLL from their WinRAR folder and it will work just fine, it will simply throw an error if you try to open an ACE file which nobody has used in ages so who cares about the error.
Really? Then maybe you'd like to explain to the class what "gender inequality" has to do with climate change? Because to me it sounds like more of Crazy Eyes Cortez "Green New Deal" horseshit where they shoehorned an assload of their ultra left racist sexist ideology into environmentalism because nobody has been willing to buy their race and gender bullshit on its own.
Because if they actually gave a rat's as about climate change they wouldn't be screaming about shit like a "pink tax" but would instead tell women they can't have any pink at all because plastic things made of pink cost more power to produce and thus are worse for the environment...funny I have never heard any of them bring that up, have you? And don't even get me started on their racist shit, because we've all seen where that road leads,hell we saw it last week when they turned a condemnation of a congresswoman using anti-semitic buzzwords to try to blame everything on "Da Joos" into a mealy mouthed "racism is bad, mmkay?" because her skin tone and religion makes her higher on the food chain than Jews under the Oppression Olympics and thus she can be as racist as fuck to anyone lower on the scale without worry from the left.
Have you tried 8.1+ClassicShell? Looks and acts like Win 7 (or XP if you prefer) but with better hardware support and faster boot times, updates are rock solid, and it took less than 3 minutes to turn off any phone home BS and in the 2 years I've been running it it never once has turned back on. I have to say its been a hell of a workstation OS, as good as XP X64 was back in the day, even win 7 wasn't this rock solid and hassle free.
I deal with enough customers with Win 10 to know its a "do NOT want" for me, the updates are buggy as fuck, every patch you have to go through tons of settings as MSFT might just decide to reset everything back to default (because "fuck you 10 Home and Pro user you are a beta tester for our REAL customers and a source for data mining" seems to be their mantra for Win 10 these days) and it generally seems less stable than Vista RTM. 8.1 OTOH has been a treat, not a single crash, it even handled a dying GPU without crashing, and never gets in the way of what I'm doing.
So he still has to pay MSFT for a copy of Windows 10, deal with the hassle of VMs, then why on earth would he want to run Linux if he has already having to pay and use Windows daily since Linux won't run the software he requires to be productive?
This whole notion is as silly as telling someone who requires a truck for work they should get a subcompact and when they point out the compact won't actually do the job they need a vehicle for telling them to get a subcompact AND a truck, deal with the extra insurance and maintenance, simply because you like compacts. Wouldn't a better idea be to push Linux devs to stop being so hostile to companies that actually have to get paid for the software because their software simply wouldn't work under the Linux Blessed Trinity of selling hardware, support, or eBegging?
But Good Lord we can't have that, what compromise and cooperation instead of pushing the narrative? In 2019? That just won't do, instead Linux users should act like paying MSFT for a copy of Windows, dealing with the BS and hassle of VMs is a perfectly sane and rational idea that 99.995% of the population won't reject out of hand as being totally whack-a-doodle...and people wonder why MSFT can release an OS as buggy and nasty as Windows 10 and Linux never gains any share.
Its still a cat, not some giant space panther or some giant tentacle monster like in Guardians II, its a fricking cat.
I mean Good Lord its Nick Fury and he loses his eye in some throw away scene? For fucks sake the annoying kid on Walking Dead got a more dramatic eye loss than the head of Shield, Samuel "bad motherf*cker" Jackson deserved a hell of a lot better.
I paid for my Android phones up front, didn't get me more than a couple months worth of security patches.
And does modern software actually work on this LTS you speak of? Because I've found the big gotcha in Linux is a lack of a stable ABI (which is quite sad as MSFT has had one for what 2 decades now?) so that software requires kernel version x, GCC y which means you can't actually run up to date software that isn't backported by the distro. Again say what you will or make any excuses about how Linux doesn't need an ABI but I can install Win 7 right now and run the latest versions of pretty much all popular software out there OOTB.
Don't forget Nick Fury, one of the baddest dudes in the MCU, spends most of the moving Driving Miss Marvel and ends up losing his eye to a damn cat.
Even the left leaning reviewers were pissed over that one, I man how can you take Nick Fury, played by Samuel "it says bad motherf*cker" Jackson, and has him lose his eye to a damn cat? And when I hear multiple reviews use the word "cringe" when talking about key scenes and that the lead in an MCU flick feels like she is phoning it in harder than Bruce Willis in Die Hard 5? Nope, don't want, no thanks.
At least Ghostbusters 2016 had an excuse, Fieg didn't have a script and just told the actors to make shit up and bless their hearts they tried, but when most reviews I'm seeing says pretty much everyone BUT Miss Marvel is good in the movie and when she walks on screen the movie just grinds to a halt as the actress has a bad case of the "I don't cares"? Yeah no thanks, sounds about as appealing as a trip to the DMV. BTW you know a movie is in trouble when the big hype building up to the movie? Is over the cat.
Uhhh...show me a version of Linux you don't have to pay support for that gets 10 years of patches WITHOUT upgrading, because if that is what qualifies for "bad service" I just wish I could get even half that for most of my devices.
Say what you will about their releases (Good Lord you couldn't pay me to run Windows 10, 8.1 with classic shell is a million times more stable) but I can't think of a single other company that gives 10 years (and in some cases more, geez they supported XP for what felt like an eternity) of security patches even on the lowest end consumer devices. Hell these days you can't even get 3 years of patches on a $1000+ Google phone when Google made the bloody thing, for a company like MSFT to support patches for 10 years on an OS that is 3 versions behind? Quite impressive IMHO.
I gotta agree on the Wally World, i used to shop at our Supercenter all the time simply as I didn't want to wait on shipping but they are now so damn short staffed (and the stupid self check out NEVER works and they only have one poor soul working the entire self checkout to deal with the BS) that now I just use the daughter in laws Amazon Prime unless its something I have to have that day and use a local grocery chain where there is always at least 4 check out girls manning the registers.
So it really doesn't take much to get customers to say "fuck this shit I'm out" and open opportunities for other companies, especially if your service goes down the toilet and there are other options available.
Wow...you must never deal with home users then, cuz I have a drawer filled with 500gb-1Tb drives from customer upgrades.
With everyone having HD cameras on their phones, buttloads of music and video, and nobody ever deleting anything? Really not hard to blow through a Tb like crap through a goose. I of course slap in SSDs for the OS but SSDs are still too pricey (not to mention kinda pointless as you don't need that much speed for media playback) for all the data storage. And don't even get me started on games, geez at 50Gb+ a pop it really don't take long for junior to blow through a Tb, not to mention all the patches going through their parents data caps like a drunk hitting a free minibar.
So while I agree 110% on SSDs being the way to go for the OS, until I can grab 3Tb SSDs for as cheap as I can grab a spinning rust for my customers? HDDs are still gonna have their place.
Uhh it was listed as IP68, which meant it could be submerged into 1.5m of water and be fine. AFAIK there isn't a way of making a phone with ports where you can just dunk it in a tank of water and not have issues so I could see this being a feature to those that are at risk of their phone getting wet.
BTW for those that don't know the IP codes here is a handy guide for figuring out IP codes.
Uhhh you might want to watch the latest Joe Rogan podcast where he had Tim Pool VS the CEO of Twitter where they admitted throwing people off for things like "using the wrong pronouns" and even feminists for daring to say that Transwomen shouldn't be making policies for biological women.
You really should watch it to see just how bad of an echo chamber exists between these social media companies and far left activist media, its pretty damn scary and this is coming from a former Bernie Bro.
Dude it ain't got shit to do with MSFT, its the gaming companies. You have any clue how many times I've bought PC games only to find its nothing but a Steam code and the "disc" is nothing but a CD that points you to Steam? More times than I can count, in fact I've quit buying PC games in the box for precisely this and try to get a GOG version first if available.
Between Steam, Epic, and the console stores? Retail is deader than disco man, that is why Gamestop can't find anybody to buy their store, retail is as dead as 8-tracks for games.
More likely this brain trust blasts his gamertag all over social media so a simple FB search would give you everything you would need. My guess is this nitwit went full retard, spamming shit like "n*gger/faggot/filthy jew/etc" until people got tired of his shit and one simple FB search gave them everything they needed because dumb fucks like that? Yeah not the brightest bulbs in the box so his gamertag is probably on everything from FB to Instagram.
You are forgetting the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory which sadly has been proven time and time again. Its a lot easier to act like a douche when you know the people around you can't just grab your dumb ass and smack some sense into your stupid head so you see more fuckwads per square inch on the net that even the worst city.
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Yes if and ONLY IF your software fits into the "Blessed Trinity" of selling hardware, support (which gives the company an incentive to make buggy and/or incomplete software so you have to pay them to "fix" it) or eBegging. If your software doesn't fit those models? You are royally fucked with FOSS, which is why so much of the end user software is frankly mediocre compared to commercial software.
Where is the FOSS video game that can compete with something like Bioshock, a game that came out over a decade ago? Hell several game engines have been made open source, plenty of free tools...oh wait, games don't fall under the Blessed Trinity so all the FOSS offerings will always be subpar. Where is the image editor than can compete with Photoshop or even Paintshop Pro from a decade ago? Not like people haven't been pointing out for ever that Linux sorely needs a competitive replacement...oh wait, doesn't fit the Blessed Trinity so again you are SOL.
From games to productivity to bookkeeping to inventory management to a billion other jobs people use computers for there are a ton of use cases where software simply doesn't fit the Blessed Trinity so the FOSS model simply will not work.
Pssst....the secret word is "GameCopyWorld" where 90%+ of the cracks? Are Steam cracks.
So if the game is on Steam? Yeah their "DRM" makes SecuROM look like NSA supercrypto, its been known for years that Steam DRM is a joke and is only there to give the publishers a magical rock that gets them to STFU while making it so Cleetus in BF USA can't just throw his game folders in a zip file and slap them on BT. Everybody else? Can just slap a Steam crack in the folder and voila! Everything plays just fine.
The real "DRM" we have to worry about these days is online only games but with those they can be 100% DRM free and it doesn't matter as the code is never on your system in the first place, its on a server somewhere and will only work as long as that server still functions. I'm sure there are plenty here that think that is "wrong" or evil but after having several games that I played completely ruined by cheaters with aimbots and wallhacks? I'm sorry but if its a competitive PVP you really need the game running on a companies servers where they can constantly monitor for cheaters, as nothing kills a game faster than a bunch of douchebags using hacks to make sure they always win.
Riiight, cuz there aren't any OSX, Linux, or Android bugs and they haven't existed for decades...oh wait. As you can see the first malware wasn't even for MS-DOS, it was on DEC PDP-10.
Did MSFT make serious fuck ups? Yup and so has Linux, OSX, Unix,DEC, IBM with their System OSes, if its able to run programs and is more complex than a Hello World program? There is gonna be bugs, because humans are fallible.
Considering there actually is an online map now that tells you which SF streets are currently covered in human feces and they are having to spend half their street cleaning budget just to deal with all the shit and needles covering their sidewalks? Frankly I'd say whether someone puffing some blueberry ecig is gonna get cancer 20 years from now should be the LEAST of their worries.
If its more than a year or two old? Its degraded, because lithium ion batteries degrade over time, "new old stock" is not gonna change chemistry.
But hey, if you want to buy a degraded battery or a knock off from Ali Express? I 100% support your right to do so, I simply believe the companies should also have the right to make sure its appropriately marked so its not being passed off as OEM, no different than how you can make bags that LOOK like a Gucci, but you can't sell it as a Gucci bag.
Psst Ratzo...the secret word is "Xeon".
You see now that Threadripper is kicking the shit out of Intel and taking its lunch money and stuffing it in a locker? Companies have been dumping Xeon workstations on eBay like its going out of style and that has driven the prices down quite a bit, I've been seeing 3.4Ghz 8 thread Xeon workstations (capable of being upgraded to 16 thread if you need more power) going for right around $200, and that is with a 1Tb drive, Win 10 Pro licensed and installed, and 8-16Gb of RAM. Slap in a $50 SSD for the OS and TADA! You have a nice gaming PC ready for the card of your choice.
I'm currently sticking with my FX-8320e because its still playing my games at 1080p 80FPS+ while recording at 1080p 30FPS but the second that drops below 60FPS? I'll grab one of those workstations, as I have had several friends grab 'em to replace their aging quad core gaming PCs and they are just happy happy joy joy with how well they perform and most of the Xeon CPUs are a hell of a lot cheaper to grab than i7s when you want more threads and/or more speed later.
Okay, I'll play Devil's Advocate. For one thing Chinese replacement batteries? Can blow up, blow up REAL good. Anybody who has dealt with Chinese batteries can tell you their Lithium Ion batteries are dodgy as fuck, but are you gonna force manufacturers to keep making batteries for devices they no longer sell, batteries that have a shelf life and take up space, because some consumer down the road MAY actually replace the battery instead of just shitcanning it and getting another? Because if you don't force them most devices made this year are gonna be obsolete next year so they ain't gonna make batteries for that model so see dodgy Chinese batteries.
Second one relates to the first...as we have seen with everything from hard drives to Wifi chips there is a ton of ways to hide malware in stuff these days and most of the parts are gonna be coming again from dodgy Chinese factories (because the OEM won't be making last years model parts, they'll be busy working on the new hotness with whatever is hot that year like phone notches or notchless with camera behind the screen or extra wide screens or whatever) and if its one thing we've learned the past few years its the Chinese government wants to suck up data more than even Google which is saying something. Are the consumers gonna blame the dodgy Chinese company who put in the bug when it comes out they've all been duped and the reason their device feels like its gonna melt is its been turned into a bitcoin miner? Nope they are gonna blame the OEM,
Now personally I'm all for letting folks get their stuff fixed from whomever they want, and that anybody should be able to import after market or refurb parts to fix these devices, but OTOH I can also see the OEMs deserving at least a way to let the consumer know if that used device they are picking up on eBay is using genuine OEM parts or Cheapo Chinese Crap, same as how AFAIK you aren't allowed anywhere to take a car out of the junkyard, fix it up and then sell it without a salvage title to let people know its been busted up. To me that is fair to all parties and personally I'd like to know if that device I'm buying used has a real OEM screen and battery or is hacked together from parts on Ali Express or the replacement part I get is the real deal or a fake.
Isn't Open Shell for Win 10 users? Because as I said Win10 is a DO NOT WANT and the version of Classic Shell hosted by Ninite seems to work rock solid on 8.1 with the latest patches.
I mean sure it SAYS 7-10 but if they are trying to keep it working on the constantly moving alpha build that is Win 10 I can imagine its probably buggy as fuck and the whole reason I'm sticking with 8.1 is I want a super stable system. Last thing I want is to deal with my shell crashing while I'm in the middle of work, especially since Classic Shell has never had so much as a single hiccup since being installed 2 years ago, can you say the same of Open Shell?
Not to mention how many people are gonna be willing to give up EVERYTHING ELSE just to game with this service? Because I can tell ya with a 1Tb a month cap between the wife and her YouTube, Daughter in law and her netflix, 2 Grandkids streaming video and the third getting games from the XB1 store plus my own PC games? I've come within 80Gb of hitting my cap, and that with the games all being bought and downloaded ONCE.
Now most of the gamers I talk to are like me, they aren't the only member of their household, despite the "gamers are lonely basement dwellers" BS we've seen in the media and those wifes/GFs, kids, brothers/sisters etc? They want to use the Internet too and this service is not only gonna blow through the caps like crap through a goose but how bad is it gonna be for those that are also trying to use the net? I can't even imagine how bad its gonna suck for anybody else trying to use the net when someone in the house is streaming 1080p 60fps, much less 4k.
Finally the last elephant in the room which is now that the mining bubble burst PCs capable of gaming? Pretty damn cheap, hell you can buy 8 thread Xeon workstations that are total overkill for gaming for sub $200, the FX-8350 which can still play most 2019 games at 1080p is going for $65 on Newegg and the big hang up was GPUs and now eBay and the stores are just flooded with 'em, hell you can get a R9 380x for like $60 and I've seen GT1060s going for sub $130. When you figure up how much going over the data cap is gonna bite into your wallet? This entire idea is just dumb, especially with the market so flooded with cards you can grab a $100 PC off of eBay and slap in a $60 card and do 1080p 60FPS all day long without screwing everyone else in the house out of bandwidth or constantly throwing more cash at your ISP as you keep blowing the cap.
Or they can just delete the unACE.DLL from their WinRAR folder and it will work just fine, it will simply throw an error if you try to open an ACE file which nobody has used in ages so who cares about the error.
Really? Then maybe you'd like to explain to the class what "gender inequality" has to do with climate change? Because to me it sounds like more of Crazy Eyes Cortez "Green New Deal" horseshit where they shoehorned an assload of their ultra left racist sexist ideology into environmentalism because nobody has been willing to buy their race and gender bullshit on its own.
Because if they actually gave a rat's as about climate change they wouldn't be screaming about shit like a "pink tax" but would instead tell women they can't have any pink at all because plastic things made of pink cost more power to produce and thus are worse for the environment...funny I have never heard any of them bring that up, have you? And don't even get me started on their racist shit, because we've all seen where that road leads,hell we saw it last week when they turned a condemnation of a congresswoman using anti-semitic buzzwords to try to blame everything on "Da Joos" into a mealy mouthed "racism is bad, mmkay?" because her skin tone and religion makes her higher on the food chain than Jews under the Oppression Olympics and thus she can be as racist as fuck to anyone lower on the scale without worry from the left.
Have you tried 8.1+ClassicShell? Looks and acts like Win 7 (or XP if you prefer) but with better hardware support and faster boot times, updates are rock solid, and it took less than 3 minutes to turn off any phone home BS and in the 2 years I've been running it it never once has turned back on. I have to say its been a hell of a workstation OS, as good as XP X64 was back in the day, even win 7 wasn't this rock solid and hassle free.
I deal with enough customers with Win 10 to know its a "do NOT want" for me, the updates are buggy as fuck, every patch you have to go through tons of settings as MSFT might just decide to reset everything back to default (because "fuck you 10 Home and Pro user you are a beta tester for our REAL customers and a source for data mining" seems to be their mantra for Win 10 these days) and it generally seems less stable than Vista RTM. 8.1 OTOH has been a treat, not a single crash, it even handled a dying GPU without crashing, and never gets in the way of what I'm doing.
So he still has to pay MSFT for a copy of Windows 10, deal with the hassle of VMs, then why on earth would he want to run Linux if he has already having to pay and use Windows daily since Linux won't run the software he requires to be productive?
This whole notion is as silly as telling someone who requires a truck for work they should get a subcompact and when they point out the compact won't actually do the job they need a vehicle for telling them to get a subcompact AND a truck, deal with the extra insurance and maintenance, simply because you like compacts. Wouldn't a better idea be to push Linux devs to stop being so hostile to companies that actually have to get paid for the software because their software simply wouldn't work under the Linux Blessed Trinity of selling hardware, support, or eBegging?
But Good Lord we can't have that, what compromise and cooperation instead of pushing the narrative? In 2019? That just won't do, instead Linux users should act like paying MSFT for a copy of Windows, dealing with the BS and hassle of VMs is a perfectly sane and rational idea that 99.995% of the population won't reject out of hand as being totally whack-a-doodle...and people wonder why MSFT can release an OS as buggy and nasty as Windows 10 and Linux never gains any share.
Its still a cat, not some giant space panther or some giant tentacle monster like in Guardians II, its a fricking cat.
I mean Good Lord its Nick Fury and he loses his eye in some throw away scene? For fucks sake the annoying kid on Walking Dead got a more dramatic eye loss than the head of Shield, Samuel "bad motherf*cker" Jackson deserved a hell of a lot better.
I paid for my Android phones up front, didn't get me more than a couple months worth of security patches.
And does modern software actually work on this LTS you speak of? Because I've found the big gotcha in Linux is a lack of a stable ABI (which is quite sad as MSFT has had one for what 2 decades now?) so that software requires kernel version x, GCC y which means you can't actually run up to date software that isn't backported by the distro. Again say what you will or make any excuses about how Linux doesn't need an ABI but I can install Win 7 right now and run the latest versions of pretty much all popular software out there OOTB.
Uhh you must have missed Brie Larson on the promo circuit saying "I don't need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work about A Wrinkle in Time. It wasn't made for him! " (so apparently you can't be a critic of a movie unless you are the correct skin color and sex, I guess someone should go tell The Black Nerd on YouTube he is fucked) and her touting the movie was "made with intersectional feminism" so sorry, you can buy the bullshit all you want but the star of the movie was waving a big ass political flag as high and as hard as she could possibly swing the damn thing.
Don't forget Nick Fury, one of the baddest dudes in the MCU, spends most of the moving Driving Miss Marvel and ends up losing his eye to a damn cat.
Even the left leaning reviewers were pissed over that one, I man how can you take Nick Fury, played by Samuel "it says bad motherf*cker" Jackson, and has him lose his eye to a damn cat? And when I hear multiple reviews use the word "cringe" when talking about key scenes and that the lead in an MCU flick feels like she is phoning it in harder than Bruce Willis in Die Hard 5? Nope, don't want, no thanks.
At least Ghostbusters 2016 had an excuse, Fieg didn't have a script and just told the actors to make shit up and bless their hearts they tried, but when most reviews I'm seeing says pretty much everyone BUT Miss Marvel is good in the movie and when she walks on screen the movie just grinds to a halt as the actress has a bad case of the "I don't cares"? Yeah no thanks, sounds about as appealing as a trip to the DMV. BTW you know a movie is in trouble when the big hype building up to the movie? Is over the cat.
Uhhh...show me a version of Linux you don't have to pay support for that gets 10 years of patches WITHOUT upgrading, because if that is what qualifies for "bad service" I just wish I could get even half that for most of my devices.
Say what you will about their releases (Good Lord you couldn't pay me to run Windows 10, 8.1 with classic shell is a million times more stable) but I can't think of a single other company that gives 10 years (and in some cases more, geez they supported XP for what felt like an eternity) of security patches even on the lowest end consumer devices. Hell these days you can't even get 3 years of patches on a $1000+ Google phone when Google made the bloody thing, for a company like MSFT to support patches for 10 years on an OS that is 3 versions behind? Quite impressive IMHO.
I gotta agree on the Wally World, i used to shop at our Supercenter all the time simply as I didn't want to wait on shipping but they are now so damn short staffed (and the stupid self check out NEVER works and they only have one poor soul working the entire self checkout to deal with the BS) that now I just use the daughter in laws Amazon Prime unless its something I have to have that day and use a local grocery chain where there is always at least 4 check out girls manning the registers.
So it really doesn't take much to get customers to say "fuck this shit I'm out" and open opportunities for other companies, especially if your service goes down the toilet and there are other options available.
Wow...you must never deal with home users then, cuz I have a drawer filled with 500gb-1Tb drives from customer upgrades.
With everyone having HD cameras on their phones, buttloads of music and video, and nobody ever deleting anything? Really not hard to blow through a Tb like crap through a goose. I of course slap in SSDs for the OS but SSDs are still too pricey (not to mention kinda pointless as you don't need that much speed for media playback) for all the data storage. And don't even get me started on games, geez at 50Gb+ a pop it really don't take long for junior to blow through a Tb, not to mention all the patches going through their parents data caps like a drunk hitting a free minibar.
So while I agree 110% on SSDs being the way to go for the OS, until I can grab 3Tb SSDs for as cheap as I can grab a spinning rust for my customers? HDDs are still gonna have their place.
Uhh it was listed as IP68, which meant it could be submerged into 1.5m of water and be fine. AFAIK there isn't a way of making a phone with ports where you can just dunk it in a tank of water and not have issues so I could see this being a feature to those that are at risk of their phone getting wet.
BTW for those that don't know the IP codes here is a handy guide for figuring out IP codes.
Uhhh you might want to watch the latest Joe Rogan podcast where he had Tim Pool VS the CEO of Twitter where they admitted throwing people off for things like "using the wrong pronouns" and even feminists for daring to say that Transwomen shouldn't be making policies for biological women.
You really should watch it to see just how bad of an echo chamber exists between these social media companies and far left activist media, its pretty damn scary and this is coming from a former Bernie Bro.
Dude it ain't got shit to do with MSFT, its the gaming companies. You have any clue how many times I've bought PC games only to find its nothing but a Steam code and the "disc" is nothing but a CD that points you to Steam? More times than I can count, in fact I've quit buying PC games in the box for precisely this and try to get a GOG version first if available.
Between Steam, Epic, and the console stores? Retail is deader than disco man, that is why Gamestop can't find anybody to buy their store, retail is as dead as 8-tracks for games.
More likely this brain trust blasts his gamertag all over social media so a simple FB search would give you everything you would need. My guess is this nitwit went full retard, spamming shit like "n*gger/faggot/filthy jew/etc" until people got tired of his shit and one simple FB search gave them everything they needed because dumb fucks like that? Yeah not the brightest bulbs in the box so his gamertag is probably on everything from FB to Instagram.
You are forgetting the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory which sadly has been proven time and time again. Its a lot easier to act like a douche when you know the people around you can't just grab your dumb ass and smack some sense into your stupid head so you see more fuckwads per square inch on the net that even the worst city.