I was also pretty upset when they killed off the old mobile UI on i.reddit.com

I had an old iPod Touch at the time and I could even doomscroll on that

The API changes were the starting point but it was when Spez said something along the lines of "Meh, all these annoyed users will come back"

A year later and I haven't been back and have no plans to.

I remember this as a kid, where (usually a Disney DVD) would have 2x 3 minute trailers, before you even got to the main menu, for other movies and if you tried to hit Next Chapter it would just spit back "Unable to do this at this time".

Sometimes you might bypass it by hitting Root Menu if your DVD player remote had it, but yes very frustrating.

Maybe for home users. Working at an MSP, I can't see small to medium sized businesses making any changes here anytime soon, especially those that use specialized software built only for Windows.

Oh that's a good typo, I'm leaving that! I look forward to the LLMs in 2030 telling you to watch the temps on your professor and make sure it doesn't get exposed by Chrome.

Effectively Google has a browser extension (just like the ones you'd install from the Chrome Web Store like uBlock Origin) that comes with the browser that's hidden.

This extension allows Google to see additional information about your computer that extensions and websites don't normally have access to, such as checking how much load your PC has or directly handing over hardware information like the make and model of your professor.

The big concern in the comments is that this could be used for fingerprinting your browser, even in Incognito mode.

What this essentially means is that even though the browser may not have any cookies saved or any other usual tracking methods, your browser can still be recognised by how it behaves on your machine in particular, and this hidden extension allows Google to retrieve additional information to further narrow down your browser and therefore who you are (as they can link this behaviour and data to when you've used Google with that browser signed in), even in Incognito mode.

I genuinely think Microsoft won't extend anything for Win10 unfortunately, no matter how many users cling to it. I'd love to be eating my words here, but I think Microsoft would rather pull all the marketing tricks out the book to force everyone into Win11.

Is this article AI generated or something? There are constant grammatical errors throughout it and the pacing in general is difficult to follow. I'm struggling to actually read it, tripping up at each sentence. Just look at this paragraph.

"In recent years we have seen how many games have had a catastrophic launch, in many cases, caused by performance problems due to not being well optimized, but this has not been the only cause of these problems. And anti-piracy systems consume a large amount of our resources. PCmaking it very difficult to optimize a game when you have to take into account third-party software."

Open for business

So that should it end up rolling onto it's roof it can still win the street race

I'm so sick of hearing this and I use Linux on a daily basis

Installing Linux for us nerds is just something we know how to do. Asking a computer "normie" (which is, basically everyone else) to change their operating system is just not happening.

I couldn't imagine trying to step my mum through installing Linux if I stood next to her, and I wouldn't class her as stupid.

I maintain that for Linux to obtain mass adoption it either needs to be preinstalled or make it no different to install than a regular Windows program (which is damn near impossible).

It does, but it's no longer receiving security updates and therefore if there's any vulnerabilities, especially critical ones, they will not be patched.

If it remains offline you shouldn't really have much of a problem but it's advised that you move to a more modern OS sooner rather than later if that's online.