Microsoft is known as a company that develops low quality, broken, breaking, unstable, insecure, unusable crap. Microsoft can't tarnish anything, to achieve that it would have to be untarnished to start, and when has Microsoft developed something that anyone would consider even an aluminum foil standard? If you use the typical levels of Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Aluminum, Microsoft products start somewhere around: “Tarnished aluminum, left over from last night's roast, thrown in a sink, with food scrap, dirty diapers, fecal matter, which is set on fire.”. That's a pretty fair, I'd say kind, assessment of what Microsoft produces, case in point, Outlook can't process S/MIME emails, it will throw an error. Windows is so shitty, they had to build Linux containers and VMs on top of it, so you could use the thing.

Yep, and importantly Microsoft is admitting their attempt at an OS has failed, objectively. Windows has no place in the professional world apart from small edge cases, which are rare. What Microsoft should do is convert their OS into a user land you can run on top of Linux. Then you could natively leverage the existing tooling that is world-class, and rock solid, then play with the shards of broken glass, for people really into digital S&M.

Sadly, it often is faster to do that than work within the old bureaucracy and its entrenched people, rules, and regulations.

This is pretty much a textbook case of a stopped clock being right twice a day.

Notwithstanding Hegseth's absymal record prior to and within the Department of Defense/War/Being Tough, the war in Ukraine has showed how different war can be run than the way our military is currently organized.

Even if if you don't buy the army having "Transformers" type robots punching each other out (and I don't), it's clear that there is going to be a lot of "AI"-ish and highly automated stuff fighting wars. There needs to be a unit devoted to understanding FPV drones on land, sea, and air, plus all of the infrastructure for using them, defending against them, the communications to run them, training people to manage these kinds of weapons and units.

Yep, apparently for all the handwaving and empty statements, systems are not secure, even accidentally. I don't blame Trump, most systems aren't secured properly, and aren't reviewed for security in any meaningful manner. The real issue is legacy, everything is built on the broken and lacking cores and bones, and patches of decades of old systems and platforms. Modern systems are like 40-year-old drywall, a lot of patches holes, and multiple coats of paint, without being replaced, and that's why you can't tackle security. At some point, we need to rip it all out, and start with security by default, from the start, and then you can start to trust the system.

Does thickness matter to anyone really? I could understand if the notebook was 90s thick, or late 80s thick, to the point it's a briefcase, but, except for edge case notebooks, do they really get so thick it's an issue? I think thinness needs to stop being a selling point.

8 GB of ram is not enough, even if you paired it with a good discrete GPU, with its memory, it's still not enough. I understand memory is expensive, and irrationally so, but you really need at least 16 GB, and really you need 32 GB as a starting configuration. If I set up a bare-bones OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or Linux install, I'd max that 8 GB with little effort. Windows 11 can't run on 8 GB, it might be listed as supported or a minimum configuration, but honestly, you can't run it on 8 GB of memory.

The editors don't edit or care enough to listen. The owners don't care either, despite the old Slashdot having vastly more users.

Being "Slashdotted" by users flocking to mentioned sites went away along with Slashdot influence.

They'll likely sell tons of them to users who don't need more than what those specs deliver. In ancient times netbooks sold well despite weak specs.

No electronic records are "safe", unless air-gapped.

It's not practical to have widely used systems and completely effective security. Humans and computers are inherently fallible.

You think it's unreasonable that nighttime brightness has doubled (actually 1.5x) over the last ten years?

Modern Slashdot. Technical details? How dare you include details! Stupid nerd!

Scapegoating does not exclude guilt. People lacking political pull are easily fed to the lions.

We got M13 in the early 1980s to use in exercise (aircraft hydraulic fluid simulated agent since the strips were basically PH test strips similar to those used in swimming pools) and wore the olive green CPOG with flappy overboots (until someone figured out rain boots were better in every way and not prone to holes).

The later gear is much comfier, and unlike M17 masks troops don't have to remove a contaminated mask to replace filters....