Ah, I forgot about that. Yes, that’s a pretty big deal. Thanks for pointing that out. Debian have always been pretty purist about non-free software, to the detriment of new users.

If the group is for ovarian cancer sufferers and they require a diagnosis to participate, discriminating on sex is just needless complexity. Why open up ambiguity (e.g. for intersex cancer sufferers) when it’s already determined by the diagnosis?

Also somehow the King James version is authoritative, after who knows how many links of translation phone games?

Haha, didn’t even think of that. Of course it’s a Nobel Prize reference.

Depends entirely on your distro. Some distros, within weeks, other distros will take up to a few years. Just depends on whether your distro prioritizes bleeding edge or stability.

It’s been fine for the average nerd for a couple decades. The installer has been mostly unchanged since 2005 or so, and I don’t see much difference in an installed system either. I think you can live boot it ahead of installation now, maybe that’s a big deal to some people?

They didn’t develop that, they brought it with them.

I got one of those when I had to go on antibiotics for a few weeks. Best decision ever. My brain has enough to keep track of already, no need to add another.

The ransomware is getting vibe coded now like everything else.

I don’t wish death on anyone, and especially not Mitch McConnell. I do wish him a long, painful stay in hospice, though.

We got rid of ours by removing upholstered beds and switching from carpet to hardwood. All fabrics stored in the affected area went through the dryer before we stored it elsewhere. Never saw them again.

With how anti-EV this administration is, I’m honestly surprised it’s still around to be cut.

I assume “destructively scan” means to cut the spine off so they lie flat, and that one copy of each book will be scanned? Isn’t that a pretty normal way of doing it in cases where the prints aren’t rare?

I discovered that there’s a separate application which just reinstalls Teams all the time. I don’t remember the name, but it had Teams in the name. After I uninstalled that it finally stopped popping up.

I think it’s more that they’re not really making money on Windows anymore. The money is in cloud services like Office 365. So Windows is just being used to push people towards what actually makes Microsoft money, disregarding whether they actually want those services.

Good point! I hadn’t really put much thought into the exact replacement, to be honest. The main point is that the USD is quickly falling out of favor.

https://pureinfotech.com/microsoft-windows-11-ai-brakes-copilot-recall/

Note that this article completely buries the lede. This is the last paragraph:

#Enterprise pushback is also influencing decisions#

Separately, enterprise users have pushed back against Copilot in managed environments, prompting the software giant to test options that would allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot more easily on business devices. This indicates that the rethink isn’t just about consumer sentiment but also addresses corporate deployment challenges.

The reason they’re having second thoughts is due to enterprise customers, who are the only customers they really care about the opinion of. If it was just home users complaining, they would not be adjusting course.

I imagine this is why MS is finally backtracking a bit on the aggressive pushing of AI in every app. They’re doing Clippy all over again, but OS-wide this time.

Just impressive how hard they managed to screw the pooch here. Have they forgotten that every other Windows release is universally hated? They had a good thing going until they discontinued Windows 10 before Windows 12 was out. Now they’ll probably need to rush out another version, because the name Windows 11 is forever tainted.

I can’t speak to the sell-off, but I have a lot less faith in the USD’s future as de facto world currency now than I had two years ago. Trump is antagonizing everyone, and we elected him twice, so they know it wasn’t a fluke.

I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if the Euro gradually takes over as world currency within the next couple of decades.

Hmm, that might actually be part of the reason for the sell-off. With the tariffs, China is shifting focus to other markets than the US.

We’re going to be saying that a lot.