Posts by Jacobus

Windows: Insecure by design

Re: when I'll have the time to deal with it

problem is hardware drivers - like those for synaptics fingerprint readers. Now, can you work with that? sure. But it's a nuisance. And that is only one of the many things that pop up when I replace windows 10 with Ubuntu on my laptop. It is painful. I get it, proprietary drivers bla bla I'd intall Linux not for the 'OpenSource' stuff but simply because it is better. I'm not convinced that Open Source is such a great deal, unless you endeavour to audit ALL the open source packages / libs that you include in your stuff. And make sure those that are critical actually get paid a living wage. But I'm rambling.

Sure, you can install Ubuntu on that laptop and make it 'work' but it's never going to be 100% and it's painful for those missing items. So it will take a really good reason. Losing support for windows 10 in october 2025 will be such a reason, because the 2017 Swift 7 is still a damn good laptop.

Aghast iOS users report long-deleted photos back from the dead after update

photo library is 15072 photos - 'recents' is 15207 photos

so the 'recents' album is larger than the entire library.

I'm guessing recently deleted are now 'recents' but that doesn't explain the difference

Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info

Re: As an owner of a Xiaomi

the machines that TSMC uses to make the (high-end) chips are made in the Netherlands (exclusively). Intel and TSMC can set up shop (and they are) in other places that are not as risky as Taiwan. It costs money and time, yes, but it will happen. And even if the chinese take over Taiwan, they won't be able to use the machines.

Easy to use, virus free, secure: Aaah, how I miss my MAINFRAME

this point of this article is the disadvantages of distributed systems, ok, fine.

However, to illustrate these points a comparison is made to mainframes and centralized systems as if these would be a thing of the past - this is very unreal, as most of the computing in the world still happens on mainframes and midframes.

in which reality does the writer live?