I concur. Being a Microsoft Certified Professional implies that security is one of your lesser concerns.

Flash was a tool that made content creation really easy. Go to albinoblacksheep.com (or a similar site) and witness it in all its glory with classics like "gonads & strife" and "the end of ze world".

It's downfall was that it had horrendous security and could be exploited by nearly anyone with a few brain cells. It _had_ to be superseded by something better. Microsoft tried with SilverLight (also a security nightmare), and I think an open standard like HTML5 is better than a big corp standard.

Meh, in 2000 they hit some milestone and made a big deal about it:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F00%2F02%2F24%2F0954216%2Fslashdots-10000th-story

Seriously though, I remember /. from before user accounts. You optionally could write your name under a post, or be anonymous. Due to privacy concerns I held off creating an account for a long time, and I lost my 1st login so I'm on my second account now. I've wasted a lot of time on this site and occasionally return.

The discussions back then were a lot more interesting and in depth, I really miss those. Sometimes a gem pops up and really enlightens me on a subject or gives me a new perspective.

And CowboyNeal was a revered member in the slashdot polls, now he feels like some abandoned toy in the attic, and I wish he wasn't because the option sparked some great (silly) discussions.

OK, an outside observation.

If people don't have health insurance they won't go to the doctor because it's too expensive, up until the point that their body breaks down and they either die or are so far gone that treatment consists of painkillers.

If they do have health insurance, they can go to a doctor and they can have an illness diagnosed a lot earlier and have effective treatment.

ACA enabled access to medical care if you needed it. I may oversimplify a number of things but that's how I see it.

We're all being f*cked by Trump anyway.

I'm going to take a shower now, I feel dirty.

And I apologize if I put this mental image on you.

Most of the experiences of people here are anecdotal, as are mine. Personally I'm happy to use ASRock, the last 12 years their mid-tier motherboards (3 gens, 1 intel, 2 amd) have been solid performers. Don't get me started on ASUS, I bought 2 high-end motherboards and both crapped out within 2-3 years outside of warranty. We highly recommended them when I was still working in a computer shop and for most people they worked reliably, just not for me.

In the good 'ole days this kind of news would have had over a thousand comments in a few hours, not 36 in over 5 hours. I really miss the old Slashdot vibe. It has gone downhill, and as an /. old-timer (I was there before uid's and usernames and I lost my first login which is why I have a "recent" uid) I think it's sad to see it in this state.

However, there's still the odd gem in the comments sometimes. Too bad those are harder and harder to find.

Nonsense

RedHat does. So does Oracle. And IBM for AIX. And Microsoft as well for for instance MS SQL Server 2022 and MS Office 2024.

This might be the case in the US, for Europe I beg to differ.

As individual you _can_ make a difference: energy consumption per capita for the US is about 279 MMBTU, for the EU this is 86 MMBTU - less than a third so it is possible. Due to larger distances you won't get to the European figure, but reducing your energy consumption by 50% would already account for 350 million times 140 MMBTU = 49 billion MMBTU per annum. The cut down in CO2 emissions for 49 billion MMBTU is approximately 2,597,000 kg (5,725,405 lbs) - roughly the same as the annual emission of countries like Niger or Surinam. All to say that it _will_ have effect.

Also, governments _do_ regulate a lot here and companies threaten all the time to relocate to cheaper countries (read: countries where there are fewer regulations and where climate change is an afterthought). It's too bad (for the world) the US is becoming one of them, while already being very energy-hungry.

Well, they can always recommend a new CPU and expanding the RAM. That used to work on Win95 so it should work now, right?

That's a (much too) pretty way to say it crashed.

Maybe, maybe not. I've used plenty of Google-Fu but the last 8-10 years the results kept getting worse, mostly due to SEO and advertising. The Gemini AI results now usually make more sense than the actual search results below it.

I'm interested to see where it goes. But with everything AI - you will need to verify. The LLMs may be trained on all kinds of data, including biased ones (e.g. right wing, specific religious standpoints, regional differences and plain misinformation). Not only that, they are continuously trained by us, asking them about stuff and arguing with them. You can have a pretty dark conversation regarding Nazism and the "Endloesung" with it if you prompt it correctly, but also a fun conversation about unicorns and dragons and what their babies would look like.

True indeed. I'd rather wait a few months for an MRI and get the proper treatment 2 weeks after the scan than have the MRI within a week and not be able to afford the treatment or go bankrupt because the insurance doesn't cover it.

Especially HP laptops. They come preloaded with... well HP.

*types in password case insensitve a few times...

***The password you have entered is incorrect. Your account has been locked.***

See? Case sensitivity matters. And I _do_ see mynotes or MyNotes as 2 different things, and most people I know do too (as they should).

Example: Windows explorer kindly hides the file extension by default. The MyNotes (or mynotes) can be the executable and have a mynotes.ini on top of you having a mynotes.txt file.