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- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 minute ago:
Ten years is a very long time for support. If you need support past that length, you need a different OS.
I strongly disagree. Ten years should be the bare minimum required. Windows used to support hardware way longer than 10 years and probably more than 15, until Windows 11 came out.
The older hardware gets the harder it is to keep supporting it. Case in point, there reason you can’t get TLS 1.2 that pretty much every site now requires onto Windows 95 era machine is the underlying hardware cannot keep up with the required computational needs to support that encryption. And if you happened to install Windows 95 onto modern hardware, the number of changes to the OS to get access to the underlying hardware is pretty much an upgrade to Windows 7.
Windows 95 is a bad example since it’s a 30 year old OS. It’s a completely different era with different OS architecture and different OS environment. Let’s instead use an example of an OS from the time frame being discussed: Windows 7, released a little over 15 years ago. There’s very little reason why a computer that was made since Windows 7 was released shouldn’t be able to run Windows 11. I think that this is a profit maximization decision on Microsoft’s part (less hardware support, less development and testing cost). They basically said screw the customers and screw the environment.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 10 minutes ago:
would this not be a good idea for a start up company that recycle computer parts?
I really don’t think so. Computer recycling already seems to be a low profit business, as evidenced by there not being any large companies that do it (that I’m aware of). This number of computers flooding the market would probably make it even less profitable. Sure, it may be profitable for some small businesses, but nothing on the scale required to address the problem.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 15 minutes ago:
Windows used to support really old hardware, I believe more than 15 years old until they introduced the new requirements for particular CPU models and TPM 2.0 chips. If anything, I feel that 15 years is too short. iPads and Hadoop have nothing to do with PC hardware.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 19 minutes ago:
Hmmm, I don’t agree. The trend is in the opposite direction. Microsoft Windows used to have a larger market share and supported hardware indefinitely. Now that their market share has shrunk, they are also limiting support for older hardware. This only shows correlation, not causation, but it does show that more competition has not improved the issue and that we need laws to do that instead. MacOS, the primary competitor to Microsoft Windows which also has Microsoft Office available, only supports their hardware for 6-8 years as well.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 21 hours ago:
I kind of wondered the same thing in the past, but the other day I read an LA Times article that illustrated the extent of the problem of water loss (not particularly related to data centers although we know they contribute to it). The main problem with evaporating water seems to be that it was water that we could have used which ended up in the ocean instead.
latimes.com/…/global-drying-groundwater-depletion
I infer that evaporation is worse than flushing it down the drain, so to speak, because if it were flushed you would at least be able to treat and recover much of it using much less energy than recovering it from the ocean. So it sounds like evaporation is largely (but obviously not completely) a one-way street, especially in arid regions, since only a tiny portion of the evaporated water would come back there as rain.
- Comment on Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name 4 days ago:
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
- Comment on Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name 4 days ago:
I don’t understand it either, but thanks for identifying the leaf.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 days ago:
I bought a used PC specifically to run Windows 11. It had a 6 year old AMD Ryzen CPU which turned out not to be supported so I returned it.
That’s worse than Apple. If hardware could run Windows 10 it absolutely could also run Windows 11 if it weren’t for completely arbitrary requirements.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 days ago:
You forgot to mention the great new start menu feature that makes it spike the CPU when you merely click it!
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 days ago:
The biggest problem Microsoft has is that the biggest selling feature of Windows is its ability to be backwards compatible and run on older hardware.
Absolutely, a gazillion percent this. My main desktop doesn’t have TPM. I bought a cheap micro form factor Lenovo that I thought would run Win 11, but it didn’t. It had a 6-year old CPU and that wasn’t supported by Windows 11. 6 years old. I realized then that this eliminated one major reason to get a Windows PC over a Mac. I think that both Mac and Linux are going to make huge gains in market-share in the next months and years.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 days ago:
You can just bypass those hardware requirements fairly easily.
Microsoft specifically warns people not to bypass Windows 11 requirements:
Installing Windows 11 on a device that doesn’t meet Windows 11 minimum system requirements isn’t recommended. If Windows 11 is installed on ineligible hardware, your device won’t receive support from Microsoft, and you should be comfortable assuming the risk of running into compatibility issues.
Devices that don’t meet these system requirements might malfunction due to compatibility or other issues. Additionally, these devices aren’t guaranteed to receive updates, including but not limited to security updates.
- Comment on Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name 5 days ago:
That’s cool ASF! /s
But I wonder why they changed the logo from a feather to a weird leaf.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 4 weeks ago:
This. And less privacy.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 5 weeks ago:
I get what you mean. You seem to have an optimistic view that technology will help us out of this mess eventually (or at least soften its impact). I guess in some ways I’m a pessimist, but I can respect your view and accept that your scenario is also a possible outcome. I happen to think it’s less likely than what the outcome I imagine, but it is possible. My uncle has always had a similar view as yours.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 1 month ago:
I pretty much agree with most of your assessment. Thank you for mentioning insurance and real estate, as that will particularly impact countries like the US, where the two have been in a feedback loop, greatly inflating home prices.
I just worry that any technological advances will only be used to either directly help people at the top or to make them richer in the process of helping those below. That has been increasingly the trend over the decades.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 1 month ago:
Yes, good example!
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 1 month ago:
Is this also the end of Software-Defined Radio in Europe?
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 1 month ago:
I hear you. I meant that more as in even more off the rails, like completely ejected off the rails.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 1 month ago:
I have mixed feelings about it. I think it’s perhaps 50/50 on whether things really go crazy within 5-10 years. It’s definitely more than 0% chance, especially considering that people have already been dying due to climate change for quite a while now (extreme weather events, drought, and related conflicts).
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 1 month ago:
I visited a local Microsoft office in the mid-90s. Their office employee kitchen had a poster of the Internet Explorer logo smashing the Netscape logo to a bloody pulp.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 1 month ago:
I’m not sure exactly what you mean regarding health and lifespan, but I think looking forward from 2025, things are quickly going to go off the rails. We’ve already been seeing severe problems resulting from climate change for years now, and I think that it’s going to rapidly get worse within the next 5-10 years. I’m not talking about sea level rise (except in very vulnerable places that are already partially underwater, like Florida), but about intensifying weather disasters, droughts, and shocks to the global food supply. As a result of this, I think we will see more and more unrest as well as authoritarianism used to deal with that unrest. How quickly all this is going to decimate the population is anyone’s guess.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 1 month ago:
(slaps forehead) Of course! People without AI glasses will miss out on all those free knuckle sandwiches that people with AI glasses will be offered everywhere they go!
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 month ago:
RickGuard
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 1 month ago:
It’s mind-boggling. American Evangelical Christians could hardly be farther from the actual teachings of Jesus Christ. They’re more like anti-Christians.
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 1 month ago:
Interesting about .onion websites, thanks!
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 1 month ago:
The primary purpose of archive.is is to get around paywalls though. That’s the only thing I’ve ever seen it used for.
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 1 month ago:
Very interesting article, thanks! I had wondered about this. The whole thing sounds pretty mysterious. Who knows, it could be Meta behind the curtains, lol! They’ve been known to resort to piracy to feed their AI.
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 1 month ago:
archive.is probably next? It sounds like the same kind of tool.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 2 months ago:
I’m inclined to think that your IP provides powerful cross-reference potential. Imagine someone either buys the data off of all data brokers out there or a law enforcement agency obtains similar kind of data through warrants, etc. They can cross-reference IPs and time-stamps and determine, that you, Joe Blow, age 35, who works at X, volunteers at Y, and lives at 123 main street, browse for some kind of very embarrassing porn every night. It’s a drastic example to illustrate the idea, but I don’t think it’s far-fetched.
This could be taken further by imagining a wider net: say, a large portion of people who have donated to this political candidate or who work for this company browse for that same embarrassing porn every night.
I’m thinking birds-eye view of potential privacy violations here.
- Comment on Just a note: When lemm.ee shuts down, all the images will break. 3 months ago:
Good to know, thanks!