I bought one of those Beelink NAS devices on special, it comes with a 64GB MMC drive preloaded with Win11.

Added Plex server (couple hundred MB) and let it do its Windows updates. Turns out it could not perform the larger updates as there's not enough disk space - I had to symlink a folder on another drive as the download cache to get it to work.

Win11 is bloated far beyond what an OS should be.

The NAS itself has been fine - not that fast at data ingestion (50-60MB/s) but perfectly fine maxxing an outbound connection on Gb ethernet.

Indeed - DJT, current POTUS:

and let's not forget

Only small-minded people would think a single type of response would fix a world-wide problem.

That's why there's EV rebates, solar rebates, residential battery rebates, government incentives for renewable generation, government subsidies to researching things like carbon capture storage, syngas/diesel, biomass generation, green steel and cement production, thorium reactors, molten salt reactors, and nuclear fusion. The list goes on and on as we investigate all the solutions we can think of to see what sticks and what's not viable.

So you get up in the morning and ask your phone what's the agenda for the day. It should be able to rattle off your meetings when/where/important attendees, plus anything personal you've scheduled, be able to work out if you can dip down to the shops to buy what's on the grocery list, and be able to update the schedule of anything based on your responses and whatever else has come through your inbox overnight. It could look at traffic and transport disruptions and suggest changes to your commute and/or schedule.

This means it needs access to both personal and work calendar and emails, your grocery list (wherever that's kept) and the ability to update all of these, plus location of everything, and correlate times and places and durations to do things. it should also be able to advise of important things in your inbox and current events.

I expect all of that is doable, except for the security aspect of letting a device access both work and personal datasets from the one device, and of course that rather than programming specifically for this type of activity, the goal is to be able to respond to anything, which is taking considerably more time.

You missed the McDonalds logo, and pictures of a golf club and a TV.

National Socialists, now where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, the shortened form described the party that started WW2.

Seems like the GOP under Trump are replicating all their policies.

Shoulda stuck with the old school names - Celeron (i3) / Pentium (i5) / Pentium Pro (i7) and added something like Pentium Enterprise or Workstation (i9). A P# prefix could be used for generation, and a 2-digit suffix for speed. There's still that song celebrating how It's all about the Pentiums.

With Microsoft admitting US surveillance laws override local data sovereignty laws, it's no surprise non-US companies are jumping at the chance to take over cloud-based storage services.

Type VER at a command prompt of your Windows 11 PC and tell me what version of Windows you're running.

Windows 11 is essentially a marketing term for the consolidation of all the updates they've rolled out up to a specific point in time, plus a deliberate update to the GUI, name, and TPM requirements - all rolled into the one convenient ISO.

"last Windows version" was meant to be the killing off of the radical release cycle they used to use, whereas now you get newer Windows 10.x kernals under the hood, and continuous development derived GUI on top. When there's sufficient changes to justify a new package of updates, they'll summarise up to a new release of Windows 10, called whatever is the flavour of the moment for naming conventions.

Go type "ver" at a Windows 11 command prompt and tell us what version OS you're running - mine says 10.0.261003.4652

Context matters - if you're in front of a personal workstation or similar you're probably going to prefer kb+mouse. If you're driving a vehicle then voice can be perfectly fine.

It seems weird that MS aren't providing more differentiated UIs for different scenarios - they seemed on the right track with Windows Mobile and their tile interface then iterating to Windows 8 tablet interface, but stuffed up by trying to make that tiled interface the default UX for PCs and workstations as well.

Have been rewatching Marvel superhero movies with my kids recently, and how Stark interfaces with technology you'd think would be some targets for MS, Apple, and Google:

Context aware - typically visual data with minimal audio, lots of drill through capability. Eye tracking and highlighting whatever is focused on. Multi-input display aware GenAI that can answer questions about displayed or highlighted information. Ability to output to near-random output devices with a flick of the wrist.

For MS that means different UIs for different interfaces, with seamless and instantaneous transitions when you change the output device.

Let us setup a 'show' based on a book or submitted script and allow crowdsourcing the prompts (and/or submissions) for digital artworks and backgrounds. Allow users to submit voice models and/or prompt for AI creation. Let AI consolidate and create multiple animations based on storyboard or original book and allow voting from contributors and viewers on preferred artworks, direction, models etc.

You do realise small scale implementation is to gauge feasibility of these tidal-based generators, including environmental impact, as opposed to say, coal fueled generation plants, which have been spewing particulates and higher levels of CO2 into the air for several decades now?

When it comes to wind turbines, the numbers of birds impacted are blown waaaaay out of proportion.

Maybe not, however with the increasing temperatures caused through CO2 based climate change, any energy pulled from the atmosphere is probably decreasing the problems created by higher temperatures. In this case, wind turbines are doing double duty.

If the goal is to find a new planet to call home I think that would resonate with a lot of the people on board a generational ship.

Yes, maintaining scholastic discipline when you know you're just part of a long chain of generations is probably the key problem after solving the closed ecology & space travel issues.

I haven't read any sci-fi where generational ships have worked completely as intended - it's essentially almost an accident that they arrive and can do anything at all mission related, mainly because the author acknowledges how difficult it would be.

This seems to be the solution that China is taking, whereas the USA is reversing all the progress they were making along this path. I see it in my own state where the newly elected conservative government has decided that wind farms need to be cancelled but many other non-renewables projects can skip environmental regulations entirely.