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Comment Re:Australia (Score 1) 144

Never had a cheque book since the 90s. I paid a bank cheque several years ago on a home deposit because my BPAY-linked account blocked payments over a grand.

When the final settlement came a month later, I was back at the same bank branch for one of the few transactions I've done over the counter in the last 20 years.

Comment Re:Fishing for attention (Score 2) 154

I think we were had. According to a previous story, "rage bait" is *the* term of 2025.

If this guy is as popular at monetization as he thinks he is, expect him to make this a regular thing.

10 Buy pair of sunglasses
20 Have a pretty young woman snap them in half on camera
30 GOTO 10

Comment Re:Microsoft's has a Windows 11 problem! (Score 2) 116

Dunno man, I run a low resource Debian on my personal devices.

No problems ever upgrading to the newer stable.

Eventually XFCE will get a Wayland backend and firefox-esr may take advantage of newer Vulkan accelerations but I don't need the bling flavour of the month from an AI chatbot enhanced desktop.

Old man yells at cloud, I know right...

Comment Re:Missed one crucial point/reason (Score 1) 116

Centre-menu? Constantly tweaking with the UI is part of the enshi^H^H en-tablet-ification.

A follower of trends, the design team at Microsoft will follow - paranoid that people really liked the BYOD vibe they were getting from COVID lockdown and that an iPad or a Chromebook (boosted by Aluminium Android hybrid) can replace a traditional PC.

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