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Posts by The Central Scrutinizer
539 publicly visible posts • joined 26 May 2017
Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up
Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone
Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases
Apple goes glass whole as it pours new UI everywhere
Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress
Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack
Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff
Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine
Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud
Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident'
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro
LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress
GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired
Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices
Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Just passed my tenth anniversary of using Mint full time and I absolutely know I will never be touching Windoze again.
Blender, Darktable, GIMP, Resolve, Emacs and the occasional bit of Libre Office are my commonly used applications and they all work a treat.
Mint (as I'm sure is the case with the other distros) just gets out of your way and lets you get stuff done. Honestly, I mostly forget that I'm even using Linux because I'm too busy using the applications.
Now that's the mark of a good OS.
Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind

Windows users are meant to upgrade to Windows 11, even if that means buying new hardware because a perfectly capable PC doesn't have a TPM 2.0 module. Since 11's launch, Microsoft has blocked loopholes, and it isn't backing down on the requirements. It even removed the documentation on bypassing them.
Oh dear. How many people are going to throw out perfectly good hardware in the next few months? What a criminal waste.
ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations
Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back
Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs
The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive
Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition
Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid
Today's jobs Microsoft thinks could use an AI assist: Researchers and analysts
UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London
Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

This whole thing reads like a bad movie script.
The new name for the idiots "in charge" of America.... dumber and dumbest.
Im remembering all the pearl clutching and the hysterical screeching of "lock her up!" from only a few years ago.
It's now abundantly clear who should actually be locked up.
Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees
Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0

I use both on a daily basis.
How much have you really tried to learn either one?
"Obscure working philosophy" is just a meaningless word salad.
Blender is vast software. It has so many tools that nobody can possibly know them all.
3D, by it's very nature, demands its own language, just like many other disciplines.
If you want simplistic and limited, then stick to Pinta (seriously?)
Image editors and 3D programs take time to learn. It's the nature of the beast.

When Adobe started screwing its customers with subscriptions, I stopped using their software. I was very happy with my copy of Lightroom, but the subscription stuff was a total deal breaker for me.
Darktable is now my raw photo processing software and it's pretty damn good.
I had used GIMP on and off for years. Now it's my FOSS go to image editor for general graphics work.
It has all the tools that most people will ever need. Photoshop is a bloated monster, with stuff that the vast majority of people will never use.
Good to see the GIMP still moving forward.
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

"According to Microsoft, the problem was due to "a recent change made to a portion of Outlook on the web infrastructure, that may have resulted in impact."
Reverting the change did the trick, and service was restored, but the question must be asked – does Microsoft test its changes before deploying to production?"
My derision for Microsoft knows no bounds. lolol as they say in the classics.
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

Re: before they die more slowly.
. "There is a reason why certain views are immediately suprressed rather than being allowed for open debate and examination. A reason why more and more under cover censorship laws are being passed; to keep us "safe" and to save "our" democracy."
You are obviously referring to Trump's outright attack on freedom of the press and journalistic integrity.