I know the last two generations of Xbox are kind of x86 centric. If the hardware was not as different, then the OS is what made it different than your usual PC. No antivirus that I can think of, no risk of anticheat software/malware that may be used as an attack vector. The recent story of the portable ROG Xbox Ally told that while in "game mode", 2GB of RAM will be made free for the game that is in the foreground. That sounds like an OS that is doing too many things. Having to cater both games and work is going to be difficult if you keep adding too much bloat.

BTW, let me propose a new marketing name for the OS: MS Windows Xbox Omega. Cannot think of anything more ridiculous.

Coming from other parts of the world, 40USD/month for the phone bill seems excessive to me. Is this normal in the USA?

40EUR/month gives you phone + home internet.

As far as I can tell, it is rendering markdown if you ask it to do so. I do not think it is a big deal if it is something limited as that.

Please be kind, I am not a serious C++ developer myself. The thing I understand about C++ is that it evolves over time. The conference talks I have watched on stream tells me there is so much out of date info out there. Even what was a good idea decades ago, like design patterns, may become a hurdle with "modern" C++. Presenters are then trying their best to get people on "modern" C++ but they need to fight against what was consider good in the past. I frown at the vision of many LLM based tools using out of date ideas, and many junior developers using those LLMs as a guide.

For me, in a corporate environment, new Outlook is the web version of Outlook. At that point, why should I care about installing some piece of software locally that is basically a browser engine? If you rely on any macro or on any VSTO or COM plugin, forget it.

New Outlook for personal use (that is probably also a web application too) is the one that asks you to route all your e-mail into Microsoft data centres. Does not look like secure to me.

Not the expert on Makefiles - I do agree that using timestamps seems risky. I was taught checking for timestamps was done to avoid repeating steps in the Makefiles. When dealing with source control, anytime you get a new revision, be it new or old, you get files timestamped with now() so that you force tools like make to redo whatever step depends on the file. One such step may be something like compile this C code.

The projects I work on take around three minutes to compile and link when starting from scratch, so I avoid the risk of reusing old code I do not want to.

If you are looking at why time/date is usually related to the last time you got a different set of file revisions, it may be due to how tools like "make" use that information to optimize the compile process. So it may be a feature rather than a bug. It is not my domain of expertise - I may accept a different theory.

Game game was released on April 1st, only in the USA, for iPhone users. And it is going to be retired soon. All of that info extracted from the linked article.

Your apps are stuck on your desktop, or like I say, MS is not going to develop desktop applications anymore, it is all webservices (webs that act as if they were a desktop app) like MS Teams and New Outlook. And your data is on a server that is controlled by a US company that needs to comply with the CLOUD act.

I wish Windows installation was thin and not the tens of GB that take space

I heard that all those fancy schedulers required for recent Intel chips are available only on Windows 11. You can read it from Intel website: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.intel.com%2Fcontent%2F...
AMD is doing something similar, as far as I can tell: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fgadget...

I am unsure how that can impact you, and by how much. Probably not much. The whole point, is that allegedly new hardware works best with latest version of the OS. Somebody else's definition of best applies here.

Threema may have corrected the issues they had few years back. I just cannot keep up with all the stories of the world.

I see people agree that Meta is not something we can trusts our data with. It is a big corporation, and is based on the US. I understand that Signal is a non-profit also from the US, although there is an LLC involved here too. It probably needs to comply with US law and with orders from US officials on top of any law where it operates on. On a different note, there has been some feature creep that makes no sense. Crypto wallet? No thanks.

It is unfortunate that researchers have debunked the marketing materials of an European competitor, Threema.

That is what the company I work for does. It has its own lawyers that know patent law. They also know how to file in patents all over the world.

In the last decade or so, the message has been to patent ideas. There are some benefits on being first. You do not even need a product, or either a promise to a product, to patent an idea. It takes several years from a patent being filed to a patent being granted.

Not even Intel can create a discrete GPU that many people buy. Competing on the high end requires a lot of effort, and Nvidia seems to provide a complete package already.