Install windows, run debloat powershell script. Done.

Microsoft give no shortage of things to complain about without needing to exaggerate.

It’s common in the server world. KB article on it is here.

Cowards

You can mount drives against folders in windows. So while D: is one drive, D:\Logs or D:\Cake can each be a different disk.

We have a similar mix, though I was referring to the underlying virtualisation providing their cloud hosting.

Azure runs on windows. Hosts run a modified version of Hyper-V.

At least, they did last I checked.

The solution is to just buy a cheap Brother mono laser printer.

And if each did cost them money - they’ve been paid when the stupid thing was purchased!

Airlines have been doing this for years.

Browser ID say you’re using a Mac? Higher price for you since you must have a higher income.

I threw Ubuntu 24.04 in a VM it’s been a few years since I’ve used it.

I was unpleasantly surprised.

I tried Ubuntu again recently for the first time in years.

Between Snaps and having to create an account to get security updates, I quickly gave up on it.

The thing that I loved about Mass Effect was the characters.

Andromeda’s characters were straight up uninteresting or plain annoying.

ME3 was an amazing game up until the last ten minutes

It happily uses epub and not proprietary formats.

The only downside to my Kobo is Amazon’s walled garden exclusive books being unavailable.

Politically sure, but economically the USA is hurt by this war. You may as well make the case that it’s in China’s interest, or Indias.

But that wouldn’t align with Kremlin disinformation that you’re spreading. Wilfully or not.

Russia (and Putin) are so weak the USA forced them to invade their neighbour?

Cope.

Oh not their phones. Their $1799 14” MacBook Pro.

Phones are coming with 12GB and Apple are still only putting 8Gb in their ‘pro’ line.

🙃

The PC market is shrinking. More and more of our general computing needs are being met by ARM based tablets, phones etc.

With all Macs now using ARM CPUs, Microsoft and Qualcomm making a very real ARM push and cloud compute companies pursuing ARM servers. Long term ARM dominance is looking more and more likely.

If it’s capture from a landfill, it’d likely be released as methane directly into the atmosphere.

If it’s made from things like chaff, it often gets simply burnt and released immediately back as CO2 into the atmosphere. No difference but significant usable energy.