Thank you so much for this! wow Red Alert used to be one of my favourites, then CnC, Warcraft and Starcraft. Cheers!

Those nutwits at Hollywood didn't take thousands of people who work their behinds off to make their bs go to screen, obviously. Those in the US were handsomely paid, but the outsourced ones were not. Now talk to me about DEI being so great for everybody.

I hope somebody will port these to LInux. Those are really great RTS games, possibly the greatest aside from Warcraft and Ages of Empire. It would give us retar(e)ds so much fun. :)

So you're saying the current system is without "parasites"?

There is no perfect system, and there will always be all kinds of people.

AGI could greatly help with stabilising that fusion reactor you mentioned. ;) AI is a great tool that is going to help us a lot, but just s any other tool, it could ne used for malicious purposes... this is what all of us is worried about.

I don't give a toss about what unwatchable films they make, finding enough fun on streaming sites, however I am on a watchout for good, watchable films when they eventually come around. 1 in 100? Fine with me. Funny thing is these companies have already lost tons of money on unwatchable films that I expect watchable ones come in droves pretty soon and all DEI weirdos laid off. Good.

Id they must use Windows, I don't know why they don't use Linux servers with terminals and virtualised Windows. It's so easy to maintain such systems. Maybe with time that would push the developers of this important software to make multi-os versions of it, or just a Linux version of it.

It not about "right mind". It's about money. Collecting data and selling it. What you paid for Windows is not enough.

Have you tried some of the "lite" Windows variants like Ghost Spectre or PhoenixOS? I've been running Phoenix OS Win10 as a 2nd OS on my laptop for years with no problems, mainly for music programs and plugins. Windows is actually somewhat likeable this way. I can bet games run better than on stock Windows, too, without having to deal with 512 different services and background processes.

Exactly. I left Windows for Linux 10-ish years ago when W8 was released, thinking "this is going nowhere". I actually thought Windows 7 was bad enough. :)))

Now I install Windows here and there for fun, usually some superlite or compact version, just out of curiosity, and when you think "this is going nowhere" Microsoft finds a way to surprise you again with even worse things. I recently installed W10 compact version for a friend, version 22H2 with '23 updates and saw ads being served in the system tray! Yes you can turn them off, but maybe just in this lite version? I sincerely hope these things bring more people to the Linux side. There are also more Mac users than when W10 was released. W10 made about 20% of Windows users to use something else. Good work Microsoft! Keep it up! ;)

Yes, Microsoft is again trying to teach users what's best to use, safer, more productive to use... :) Playing nanny. This is the stuff that drew me away to Linux more than a decade ago. Just couldn't stand using an OS that tries too hard to make you do things their way, not your way. It's been going on since Win 7, even XP.

Of course they're going to use Windows to train their AI. What did anyone expect? And they'll succeed, because not many Windows users have enough knowledge to disable things in their OS. Big majority are just users who can barely use a mouse, a browser and Office apps. I keep seeing people who don't know where they saved a file they're working on... It's the result of dumbing down users by an OS like that and constantly changing things.

The way I use Linux has been 100% the same since I started using it. Even changing the distro or desktop environment doesn't matter much.

Absolutely. Paper bags as we used to have in the 80s for when you don't have a bag with you.
Plastic has become a solution for way too many things last couple of decades, and excessive plastic packaging of products, due to its price.
Maybe there should be a "plastic tax" of some kind?

When I was a kid, we used to bring shopping bags with us to the groceries. I've been doing the same my whole life. You go to the groceries, you take a shopping bag(s) with you. Also, these "pro" shopping bags don't break so easily and they can be a fashion statement of sorts. lol Yeah, I do have some colourful ones...

I am personally more worried about what young people eat, the amount of a lot of nothing with fat and sugar, and general air quality in the cities. These are causing rise in cancer cases. So now we have the same number of people dying of lung cancer, even though less people smoke, and the rise in colon and rectal cancer due to low quality food and appalling eating habits.

I don't think another Facebook or Instagram is needed, especially coming from Zuck. His platforms are all over-censored. I'm fine with X, but I'm not a social-media head and use it very, very sporadically. Now I remembered I have Facebook, too. Due to over-censoring I banned it from my book. :) Read, I almost got banned for rather trivial posts, so I decided not to use it anymore.

Anyway, I have a feeling Zuck wants to start this Threads thing because Facebook is not nearly successful as it used to be 10-ish years ago. I would advise him to let free speech be free on Threads, at least more than on Facebook, and maybe, just maybe people will give it a chance.