Pair it up with Edge for linux.

Strange how the FCC was powerless to do anything under Biden and yet today it can do whatever it wants.

I suppose at least they didn't ask AI to fix it as well. Although who knows how many contractors are using AI to do their jobs for them now.

Years back the company I worked for had a contractor who did PCB layouts. He was crap at it too, and I'm fairly sure he just used the auto-router for everything. Caused no end of problems which went away when I started doing the PCB layouts myself.

At this point, it really doesn't matter what they think. By adding more security and ads, they're just forcing more and more people to the alternative, which is piracy when you're running a media cartel where everyone is in cahoots.

The eight states are Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana.

They are all red states.

That's surprising to me. These sorts of silly lawsuits usually come from blue states.

I prefer GoG. Just download an installer and play the game that way. I don't need a launcher or game manager.

It's an external requirement in many cases. For contractual or legal reasons they need AV software on all machines, if it makes sense or not.

It's how utter crap like McAffee survives. It may be shit, but it fulfils a business need. Checks the box.

Ahh, yes the UID checks out. Most slashdotters these days probably don't even know who Bill Gates was.

Exactly. This irrational trust in Microsoft "because they are powerful" is completely deranged.

What a stupid and disconnected comment. You are deeply stuck in the past and it is not a good look.

Europe has that. If is not cost-effective at the moment, but moving closer to it costs very little in comparison to the gains. Also remember that Europe has, for example, ASML and Zeiss and that Europe educates a lot of good engineers. Replacing ASML and Zeiss alone would take a moon-landing type project at this time. And as soon as you leave the MS crap behind, you are not tied to specific hardware anyways.

Same here, no thanks. Defender is just a waste of CPU cycles. If you configure a Linux "desktop" the way UN*X was intended no need for an AV.

Plus the title should be "Microsoft Defender Now Supports Linux systemd Desktops".

I dunno...

You have a point about parental control, but the reality is that most of a child's waking time is away from the parents in state-mandated schooling. And I strongly suspect that the supervision schools use on their students is much less strict than the direct supervision that parents would use on their own kids.

For example, should we keep guns, alcohol, and tobacco out of the hands of children, or should we rely on the parents to impose rules?

We teach children to swim, but we also make people put fences around their swimming pools.

It makes sense to put restrictions on some of the obvious dangers kids might find in their environment.

I actually toned it down by not naming the specific politician.