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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

W2k was awesome. Great stability. However, the legacy from Windows NT meant that applications had no direct access to hardware which games of that time required.

That was a showstopper for most users outside the enterprise world.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Slovakia will ending their support for Ukraine isn't a problem as to what will happen when the US and EU stops supporting Slovakia.

The amount of money the US and EU has poured into Slovakia the last ten twenty years is far from insignificant.

If Slovakia decides to stop believing in Europe then Europe will stop believing in Slovakia.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Windows does that automatically when switching from Linux to Windows... 😁

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

It's a well known fact that every second major release of Windows is crap.

  • Windows 95 was not the best.
  • Windows 95OSR2 was the one you wanted.
  • Windows 98 sucked.
  • Windows 98 2nd ed. worked as the former should have.
  • Windows 2000 was great but had no support for running games.
  • XP solved that and made people leave Windows 98 (I deliberately left out the clusterf... Windows ME.).
  • Windows Vista sucked balls.
  • Windows 7 was what Vista should have been.
  • Windows 8? Metro on phones, yes! On desktop? No no no.
  • Windows 10 got Microsoft back on track again.

I thought the new upgrade scheme (2 editions per year) Microsoft introduced with Windows 10 would be like "every second release will suck" but it started to look like Microsoft were able to break the curse....

...and then Windows 11 happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The article you're linking to starts with security researchers who installed their own backdoor which went undetected. Then it continues with a warning about the dangers of not being able to check if the firmware actually is a firmware actually from the vendor and not a manipulated one.

While I'm pro open source and agree that there are dangers not knowing what firmware is used I fail to see how an open source firmware / bios world be immune to be switched out.

What am I missing here?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Du you have any like about bios and sloppy engineering that I can read up on

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yup. Just like my Nexus 10. Even though no one loves it I still do...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're wrong.

You just have to know that there's a lot of people that do think that all those people are beneath them and if the one you're vouching is not like that it's exactly what you would say.

On the other hand ... If you already decided that Kutcher is an asshole I'm pretty sure you would jump to your conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I second this. Here in Sweden we used to have a movie site where they applied some magic to the calculation and presented how you would rate a movie on a scale 1-5 and they were always correct within ±1 point. So fx a 3 could be either 2, 3 or 4 etc etc. While the site still exists it has seen better days so RT had been my go-to site for movie scores and reviews.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We do but Illuminati made sure it's only available to about 1% of the population....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh... More unsubstantiated claims from you... Well .. have a nice Friday evening.

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