The current generation of parents have had computing experience from the 90s, so have no excuse not to supervise their children properly on the internet. Just imagine what other "controls" Microsoft has on your life.

There's already a huge malware industry built up around "driver updaters", this will make things worse.

If your anti cheat is incompatible with Linux then you are not allowed on Steam. Plus revive the desktop and laptop versions of SteamOS officially instead of having to use unofficial installss. Then make a deal with Adobe and Autodesk. I can dream, but I have been waiting since 2001 for the mythical YoLD. Windows 10 forcing a hardware extinction event seems to be the time to make a big push over the last few compatibility issues.

I remember all the bloat they put in Windows 98 after Windows 95 was seen as the greatest version of Windows back in the 90s. Microsoft has extended the "good-bad" release cycle to multiple bad versions. The penguin is there in theory but still not enough to convince the major proprietary software companies to port over to it.

Just that the "cable" is now fibre optic.

And Edge as Copilot Browser, and Xbox as Copilot Gaming? Will Microsoft even rename themselves as the Copilot Company? Surely they make Flight Simulator part of the Copilot experience too.

I've been using Firefox since it was "Mozilla", that's before it was even Phoenix. I've been using the internet for almost 26 years now and I feel that Mozilla in it's current form is not sustainable. Firefox has too many unfixed bugs on Android so I use the Ecosia browser, and only use Firefox on desktop. While I'm a big fan of the Ladybird project (and Servo too), what I feel we really need if for all the competing Firefox forks like Zen, Waterfox, Pale Moon etc really need to band together and form a new Mozilla alternative that they can work on as a common base, rather than having to "deshittify" it as it is now, and leave the old Telemetry-infested Firefox source code behind like OpenOffice did when LibreOffice took over.

AI summaries provide just the raw text, no banner ads, no autoplaying video, no cookie notices, no e-mail newsletters, no "chum boxes" of one weird tricks. AI summaries are even more effective than ad-blockers at cutting the crap. There's a reason to be scared. Time to start providing junk free sites or deal with being ripped.

Remember browsers like Flock and Rockmelt? No, And before them stuff like Neoplanet and the "Mario Golf" browser from Nintendo? Gimmick browsers eventually get boring. At the end of the day, browsers should just go back, forward, reload, search and address, maybe with tabs, and leave the rest to extensions. Opera used to boast about fitting on a floppy disk. Like it or not, the consolidation in the browser space is due to the fact that most people don't want browser innovation.

There's been a suspicious amount of scraper traffic the last few days, someone somewhere is running a massive botnet.

I have had too many bad experiences with Wikipedia, I can also tell when AI is sourcing its text from Wikipedia too. The internet is really messed up now.

The Cebunano Wikipedia is a known embarrassment for Wikipedia, and then there is the "Wikifunctions" project that want to make glorified templates and sql queries into "articles". Wikipedia got a lot of its start from "RamBot" all the way back in 2002, when US census data was dumped into the wiki. Wikipedia is kind of a bad word these days, but it needs to redeem itself and become an example of human edited content in the age of AI slop.

We really have a disagreement of what a low resolution is, probably a generational one. 1024x768 is considered a low resolution by today's standards. Many Linux distros often don't detect 4K displays properly and render at 100% causing everything to be small. Meanwhile Apple has been doing retina displays for so long that their original retina display products are no longer supported by them.

Putting data on the internet is just too much trouble these days.

It really was, the default fonts and UI toolkits are designed for 75-DPI displays and XRandR was not added for a very long time. Modern Xorg is basically duck taped with lots of extensions to the original protocol. It's not the original X11 anymore, it's full of code no one really knows what to do with. It should have been replaced in 2003 when XFree86 was having the original forking drama.