Zx81 has 1KB. The clones got more memory. TK82C has 2K. The one I had was 16KB. There was even some with 32KB.
Interesting days

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 clone, running on a Zilog Z80A processor, with 16KiB of RAM (and 8KiB of ROM).

A lot do, yeah. Maybe even most.
It is the culture of "auto update to keep it secure" fostered by Microsoft (in particular, but others as well). AV companies and (ironically) security companies also do it.
It is, as far as I'm concerned, not much better than security through obscurity.

Very few people still have testing environments where they test every and all updates.

Thank you for your honesty. It is really rare these days.

I can assure you you worked your whole life besides criminals. Odds are you are a criminal yourself. Can you affirm you never, ever, not once in your life broke a criminal law? Do you even know all actions that are crimes in all laws?
What you are really objecting is working alongside people who got caught.

Exactly. There are documented cases back in August 2019, with suspected cases even earlier.

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Lets agree that Trump failed in all aspect of being even a BAD president.
But the important thing here on this discussion is: never miss the opportunity for a joke. :D

Are you sure you are not thinking about Ronald Regan? One of the two parties seem to think that the main quality for a president is being on a TV/Movie. Or maybe even for a governor.

Or, rather, the power of tech companies to SPREAD falsehood.
The tech companies are, now, doing nothing more than trying to reverse the damage they did, by refusing to take responsibility for years.
They are not heroes. They are doing the bare minimum after plenty of avoidable damage was done.

Google, Facebook, Cisco, Microsoft...

Exactly. That's more expensive than my desktop computer. I have a very nice Xiaomi phone that does everything I need and more. It has 128GB memory, which is amazing. 6GB RAM, which is plenty. And it isnt even last gen. It is a Redmi Note 8 Pro.

Ridiculous paying $1000 for a phone.

Except we are talking about a vaccine that hugely simplify the logistics problems, allowing for a much faster vaccination. It is not "like pfizer, but with lower efficiency". This could save MONTHS on the vaccination effort.

Sure, if all else was the same, you would be right. But it is not. Efficacy is only one of the variables. Right now, logistics is a bigger issue. Coronavac can be carried inside handheld termos.

If you have a vaccine that requires -70C freezers and is a logistic nightmare, you are pretty much stopping, or at the very least delaying, a part of the population from getting any protection.
If everything else was the same then, sure, 50,4% overall protection would be a bad thing. But If you can't get vaccines to people, the protection is 0.
Brazil, as an example, has the infrastructure (although, right now, not the political will) to vaccinate millions each day using a vaccine that doesn't require -70C freezers. You could, in theory, depending on the political will (which, again, I know we don't have with our current president), have herd immunity in less than 1 month.
There is a huge gap between making a vaccine and have it stuck into the arms of the population.
Would it be better if the numbers were higher? Sure. It would be even better if we had no disease.
The logistics right now is the real barrier, not vaccine efficiency.

Exactly. Not to mention that Coronavac Phase 3 was THE ONLY ONE that happened during a peak. Specifically, Brazil's second wave. Possibly with some of the UK strain running around.
But the most important fact is Coronavac logistic requirements, that make it much more viable for usage in developing countries. Not needing -70C freezes is huge!
Not everyone live in LA's Orange County and eat kale for breakfast.