
Meta's promises????
And their track record especially regarding Whatsapp is not exactly reliable.
Zuck will do anything for money... much like Trump in thats respect.
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You become cynical of everything with an MS label on it. They FSCK around with things because they can and as far as I can see, for no good reason. One [cough][cough] patch to Server 2012 caused the whole MSCS estate to fail miserably. Two days on the phone to MS in Redmond from South Asia (the locals were total POS) and I finally got a fix and clustering worked again but... Why?
After more years than I can remember writing system level software for a Windows platform, it finally got the better of me in 2016 when I saw W10. WTF multiplied by 10x9.
That was it. I decided that it was time for this GOF (Grumpy Old Fart) to retire and kick MS into the dust of history.
Now I ONLY run Linux (AlmaLinux) and MacOS. Sanity restored.
The above OS's are not perfect but I can live with them. Long may that continue.
and all of my Linux systems are now running Alma 9.1. I'll do the 9.2 upgrade in the next week or so. I'm not in any rush at the moment.
One issue that is more important to me is upgrading PHP from 7.4 to 8.1/8.2. References to 7.4 seem to be everywhere. Those issues are not the fault of the core OS.
I might just pull the plug and wipe the system clean, install 9.2 and PHP 8.2 and be done with it.
I have scripts that do all the work in setting up a WordPress server.
lawyers letter to MS.
If people do not want their shitty/stinking updates isn't it their freedom of choice NOT to have them.
I hope this does happen. Then once and for all, we can legally determine who owns the PC. You, the person who paid for it OR Microsoft LLC.
Just say NO to MS and its forced updates.
But most of you do have a choice. (see ICON)
They sort of have form with that.
When the USSR fell, I went in with some other brits to open a sales office. We found hundreds of US made computers waiting for spare parts.
They will get whatever they need by hook or by crook.
That said, some of that hardware will be used by Putin for his war effort (drones and missiles) which will be returned with vengeance.
This is why Vulture Capitalists are bad news for any business that they cast their evil eyes on.
They come in promising the earth but all they do is asset strip and exit stage left leaving behind a company in tatters that is saddled with a shed load of debt.
Then they rinse and repeat again and again.
In the past, I've had a numpty from just about the last man standing in the UK when it comes to a large electrical retailer tell me to my face...
"It is against the law to sell a PC without Windows."
I calmly point to the Mac section.
"What about those? They run the same Intel CPU as this thing here?"
His reply was:-
"They pay Microsoft a license before putting their own OS on it."
At that point, I walked out of the store with my friend who wanted a new computer. She's now in her mid 70's and is very happy with a Mac Mini.
For me it is the opposite.
We are all different people. We all have different likes and dislikes. Many of us are willing refugees from the one size fits all disaster that is Window 10/11.
Having a choice allows us to choose the best fit for our needs.
I, like many followed the crowd onto Ubuntu circa 2000 and something. I gave it a good shot but deep down, I knew that it was not for me.
This is probably due to my first encounter with Unix was Dec/Ultrix. Then OSF/1 and Digital Unix where I built large systems for credit card processing.
I started out with Slackware 1.1 simply because it came with a PC Magazine. That got me hooked but soon RedHat called and it fitted my experience and requirements perfectly.
Now I use Alma Linux everywhere.
Is it perfect? No way but it works for me and that is all that counts in the long run isn't it?
Unless... you happen to be in Utah (and a few more states very soon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehepxLz8sY&pp=ygUDdHl0
I'm pretty sure that the so called 'Christian Right GQP' majority in one state will soon mandate that the only streaming to cars are sermons from the Evangelical Preachers who talk about the devil inside us in return for donations towards their next private Jet/Mega mansion/Yacht
MS
DropBox
IMHO, the ONLY thing DropBox has going for it is that isn't one of the other two (for the time being)
I certainly don't trust Google or Microsoft to not scan my data and send me targeted advertising as a result.
As I don't pay either Google or MS even one bent penny a year, the choice for me is pretty obvious but TBH, my need for any of these services these days is just about nudging 0.00000001.
As for AI being to blame... Time for a new CEO.
They will asset strip the company, sell off bits and then exit stage right leaving a shell with a few gazillion in Debt.
This is their Modus Operandi. We have seen it happen time after time after time over the years.
What about the customers?
They (silver Lake) simply don't care.
Like El Trumpo, all they care about is the green.
They were mostly bought and paid for by big biz. Only a few in the US Congress are not beholden to big biz. Katie Porter is one of those.
Add to that that politicians in the USA are always searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow in order to finance their stupidly corrupt and expensive re-election campaigns it is little wonder that most succumb to the geld laid down at their feet by businesses and lobbyists of all shapes and colours.
Even a senator recently elected for a 6-year term is already out raising money for this next campaign.
The sheer amount of money spent on electioneering in the USA each year would probably be more that the GDP of around 40% of the countries in the world. What a waste of $$$$
Well...
Not exactly RedHat Linux but the next best thing, Alma Linux. Built from the RHEL Sources so close enough.
I have it running on a 2015 15in MacBook Pro. The only issue I had OOTB was with the trackpad. A bit of tweaking with the Gnome GUI and it is fine. OTOH, XFCE works properly OOTB...
I also have it running on a 2012 Mac Mini. This runs my website. Again no issues.
TBH, If I had to use a cloud service, I'd use RH/IBM rather than Google (slurp central), Microsoft (No thanks) or Amazon (Evil Empire).
The number of hack attacks my website gets from AWS hosted services (and AWS seem very reluctant to do anything to stop them) and MS Azure is crazy. Avoid at all costs.
but the House of Repomen (Representatives)
If they can go after the Manhattan DA for spending a measly $500 of Federal Money in their legal attempts to take down their 'Dear Leader who never committed a crime in his life' (Donald Trump) and threaten to defund the FDA, the DOJ, FBI, DHS and uncle tom cobbly and all including the EPA then allI I can say is
WATCH THIS SPACE.
Then there are states that are actively passing laws to ban EV's (or make them so expensive to own that no one in their right mind would want to own one) then the battle is just beginning.
for "The Trump Playbook"
It is long past time that the defendants have to put into escrow the sum they are being sued for BEFORE the trial begins. It should be done by court order. Failure to do so sends the CEO to jail for contempt and the case is awarded to the plaintiffs by summary judgement.
But... the US legal system is an utter mess and wide open to abuse as demonstrated by Trump, Musk and especially Alex Jones.
Tesla basically refuses to sell spares to customers. That means taking the cultmobile to their service centre where it can languish for weeks if not months because said spares are simply not available.
My local bodyshop refuses to even quote for even fixing a dent on a Tesla and they work on Ferrari's, Lamobo's and Posrsche's so are not a cheapo back street shop.
That says it all about the cult of Tesla.
I did try to like a Model 3 when I was last in the USA and had the chance to rent one. It was built like a Lada on a bad day. 1200 miles on the clock and there was rust already starting to appear because of the shoddy paint job. Sorry fanbois, they are not a Luxury Car. Adequate at best.
Hey SatNad... Your left hand department (Outlook) needs to get chummy with the RightHand crew at One Drive.
TBH, I don't hold out much hope. MS is a lost cause as far as I'm concerned. I gave you the heave-ho in 2016 and never wanted to feel the pain and anguish of going back to Windows/Orifice 200.
You will obey
When you don't
Exterminate, Exterminate
{grandson has been watching old Dr Who episodes that feature Daleks while he gets over Chicken Pox}
In other news, a female colleague joked that 'Patch Tuesday' was the software version of a Period. An event that can muck you up for days, one that cannot be ignored and like a bad kebab, keeps on repeating.
when it comes to not paying bills. Stiff the small companies and hope that they can't afford to sue. Even if they do sue and win, make it next to impossible for them to collect even one penny.
All straight out of the Trump playbook.
MAGA == Make Attorneys Get Attorneys
I guess that you have never worked on a project that ended up being scrapped because it was:-
- going down a box canyon
OR
- other developments elsewhere made the current plan redundant
or other reasons?
It takes a brave manager to admit that their baby was a POS given other factors and call a halt. Most managers would carry on regardless and look for an exit (aka another job) before the blatant waste of £££ came to light leaving the poor sods dong the work to carry the can.
One can only hope that it leads to the demise of both of them ASAP. MAD would also work.
This race to put a so-called AI system (has it passed the Turing Test?) into everything under the sun sucks big time.
If you get pissed at Amazon's 'we think that you might like' then standby for ALL your searches to be dominated by whatever GPT-n is told to say rather than give a real answer.
Hmmmm. OTOH, that could make a whole lot of Politicians even more surplus to requirements than they are. As they never answer the question put to them but give you the answer that they think that you want which invariably is nothing like what the questioner wanted.
I met the man when he was selling US Imports from his shop above a shop on Oxford St in the early 1970's. I still have one of the Grateful Dead albums I bought there.
Those were the days...
IMHO, he lost my respect when he sold out his record stores. Since then apart from a few transatlantic jollies, IMHO he has lived on his name.
I had my doubts about the viability of the latest Cornish Folly right from the start. Still, it is sad to see Newquay in the news for all the wrong reasons.