Posts by F.Domestica

Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security

Any "wsl inversion" tools?

I'd be willing to move to Win11 if MS hadn't insisted on forbidding it from running on my relatively-recent hardware.

I'd be willing to continue running Win10 if I could get support for another 5 years for a one-time price comparable to buying Win11.

But apparently they really do not want to offer me the option of staying in their ecosystem.

Does anyone offer a tool which will take a Win10/WSL2 system and "turn it inside out", doing a semi-automatic conversation to Linux with a contained Windows?

'Wobbly spacetime' is latest stab at unifying physics

People expecting unity on something as yet untested really don't understand the scientific method. Any theory can be proposed; the question is whether it matches the data (known and later) better than other theories. And even then it's only a provisional best-guess since some other data or idea may either refine it or replace it later.

As far as I can tell even philosophy admits of this process. Individual philosophers may not, but that's _their_ current theory, which may not survive.

Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support

The rumored traditional IBM script for that...

"Ok, let's try this. Shut down you machine. Unplug the power cord. Clean the contacts at both ends with a pencil eraser. Plug the cord into the machine, then into the well, in that order. Power up the machine. Did that fix it?"

Lets the customer pretend that this snake oil did something rather than admitting they didn't plug it in or turn it on.

antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but 'design by committee' isn't always the best for Linux

Chose AntiX on my Ancient Acer...

.. simply because it was the first extremely-lightweight 64-bit distro to mostly be happy on that machine. I agree with the article's observation that it might actually benefit from being a bit more minimal and better organized, but it *is* quite responsive on this 1.8GHz/1GB Celeron 540 box. Even boots fairly fast.

Known issues: Doesn't sleep or hibernate; I can't close cover without having to reboot. Display doesn't always come up properly on first attempt, but that happened with Windows too. Won't boot with my USB3 PCIe card plugged it; I need to pop that until it's running... but that too may simply be a hardware quirk. And, yes, finding what I'm looking for in its menus can be a bit if a nuisance.

But Raspbian didn't run on thus machine, and antiX does, and that's good enough for now even though I'm not interested in its "bootable thumb drive" capability or some of its other philosophical underpinnings.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

Are they also abandoning the Win10 antivirus support?

If do, I need to get another AV tool installed. I'm running behind a fire wall, and I'm appropriately paranoid about what gets downloaded from where, but when it comes to online security paranoia is not enough. If Macrosquish is no longer even pretending to fix zero day bugs, we no longer have a belt and have to rely on suspenders an be skyhook...

I'd consider running, and even paying for, Win11 if it ran on my existing hardware. But the laptop is much too old, and the desktop is barely to old. While I agree that folks should be being encouraged to use the best hardware security features available, "available" is still constrained by budget.

If MS doesn't want us legacy customers, OK; I can probably migrate to Linux at this point, though there's still better DAW support on Windows. It's a pity, though, they had finally gotten WSL to a point where it was a decent Linux environment just in time to abandon the customers that might have retained for them. This time, "embrace, extend, and capture" failed to follow through..

I certainly understand not wanting to burn resources supporting old versions of the system, and can't blame them for wanting to move everyone to the new version. But they could have done so in a way that made migration easier, letting improved security bring us to new machines as the hardware base turned over naturally...

Maybe they replace machines every year so they don't see a problem. Most companies are on a 4 to 5 year cycle, and most consumers hold onto machines until they find a compelling reason to move. "We said so" isn't compelling.

Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales

One of the "fun" things about dealing with Microsquish is that they're really bad at getting everyone to agree ob a shared strategy. I have seen situations where, eg, the rep from the browser group was working hard to promote an idea while the rep from the database group was apparently there to throw up roadblocks. A coherent message and consistent policy may be too much to hope for at any moment, never mind from week to week. Ditto learning from past mistakes; that too requires that they talk to each other (if not to the developers).

So this doesn't _have_ to be malicious. But that doesn't make it much less of an issue.

I am using .net right now under protest, because the tooling I want to use is biased toward it. Otherwise, especially given that it seems to be "cast in Jello", I'd have continued to avoid/ignore it.

Dot NOT?