Yeah, legislation needs passed that any software on any device purchased or leased must be removable without voiding warranties or service contracts. That would go a long way towards making phones, computers, and other devices less invasive and actually privacy protected.

Luckily I already don’t trust the internet already and don’t go anywhere online without script blockers and I don’t open emails as a rule of thumb. I am sure it will be dangerous, but I am not relying on passive security already.

Ditto. They are stopping support, but I highly doubt they will just brick all Windows 10 machines. If they do, I will just throw Linux on a flash drive and boot from that to recover my data ahead of switching fully to Linux.

I remember seeing a leaked paper about them putting an omnipresent advertising ticket at the top of the screen that will be displayed regardless of full screen status. The only reason I can think that they are forcing this so hard is that a lot of their forced ad servicing plans are not possible to implement in earlier versions of Windows due to root level functionality that cannot be changed. I’m guessing things like direct injection of ads in running processes or that ticker.

Ads have no place in an OS, especially not as kernel level processes. If ads on the internet have taught us anything, it is that bad actors can inject malicious code directly into them without content servers or hosts knowing and compromise untold numbers of machines who just, let me check, rendered the ad.

Between the aggressive plans for in OS advertising and the privacy abolishing actions and policies with AI datascraping, I am done with MS. Windows 10 will be the last one of theit OS’s I run. If work needs me to do something on Windows, it will be on a virtual machine that I remote into.

This is a future proofing measure. With the enshittification of Windows there is a reasonably sizable share that is looking to migrate. Making an API/front end functional on the platform is just good business. I for one will be switching 95% to Linux the instant Microsoft acts on their patant for putting a mandatory advertising ticket on the screen. Literally the only thing I will use it for is programming things for work.

Reminds me of Rimworld and the fact that, if there is no other accessible entities on the map with a nutrition stat, children and animals will b-line for booze that raiders drop and get hammered. I can’t count the number of Muffalo, dogs, and cats that I have had which end up with an alcohol tolerance hedif out of nowhere.

Yeah, I hadn’t gotten into the “how to fix” part. Estate taxes, VATs on intermediary products, and wealth taxes are all great ways of redistribution, which is required for a functioning economy that grows at all levels, not just one.

Not an economist, but I am a mathematician.

It is 100% BS. 99.999% of the rich don’t get/stay rich by spending money. They buy a mega yacht and create a few hundered jobs for a couple months at best.

Economies grow when money moves. A billionaire spends 500M on a single yacht and that 500M moves to the yacht manufacturer and their suppliers. That same 500M spent $50 at a time by 10M people spreads that money across hundreds of thousands of businesses at minimum. That means it can be spent by more businesses on paying labor or expanding stock. That is more people getting money to spend money.

The concept of “trickle down” economics should function just as well as “trickle up” economics, but that requires that the wealthy spend as liberally and as widely as it being more spread out on the bottom. This the failure point. It will all end up at the top anyway, it will just make the world a better place getting there if it starts at the bottom.

I haven’t seen anyone mention Dark Cloud. Love that game.

My Steam Deck doesn’t even pass the benchmark. I play Rise on it at the best settings. I was kinda disappointed.

This is a momentous event. I only wish it had Red Alert 2 in it.