Yeah, i could have lived without most of the stuff added to Win10 from Win7, which was probably the pinnacle of Windows versions. WinXP was also a real game-changer - the power of NT with the user-friendliness and compatibility of Win98SE.
Your Windows 11 experience appears to be worse than mine, which I would not describe as good. Windows 10 was almost tolerable, and I actually liked some earlier versions. Now I get a recurring bar in Outlook asking me if I want to summarize my email for the day, which comes back no matter how often I close it. I don’t even try to use the start menu anymore, just type in what I want to use. Microsoft products are so bad these days that I can’t see how they expect people to pay once, let alone monthly.
Copper and silver both. We need more unvarnished brass doorknobs in our lives!
Engineered obsolescence is rarely a good idea. If the motherboard specs or s9cket don’t need to change to support the new chip, keep it. If the only thing motherboard manufacturers have going for them is an artificially required piece of hardware, then they deserve to be outpaced by their competitors.
Under the previous trends, Windows 12 should be surprisingly good - every other version was. I expect they’ve refined their development methodology, though, and inconsistent behavior such as good releases will no longer be tolerated.
Win8 was so bad they backed away and made Win10 more like Win7. Win11 is a nightmare I only have on my work computer. Every update makes it a little bit worse.
Or trip the breaker his outlet is connected to.
I wouldn’t say the Quest is cheaper, you just pay a recurring non-cash cost. It’s a price I’m not willing to pay. I’m also not able to pay the expected cost for the Frame right away, but I hope there are enough early adopters to keep the manufacturing line going long enough for me to be able to afford one.
Everyone above this comment was expressing frustration with using MS products. This doesn’t go away with a VM and personal privacy has no bearing. I have a job that is computer-adjacent, and still use MS products enough to swear at them every day I work. As a former programmer, im not sure I’d want to get back to doing that full-time if I had to use other MS products more. I hear the coding stack is still exceptional.
I’m pretty sure Office 97 was the last version to not use ribbons or have auto-arranging menus. As a support worker, nothing was worse than those two items. Having to walk someone through clicking a series of static menus was so much easier, could even be done in a doc with optional graphics, and the user might learn something in the process. After those things, there was no standard, anything could be anywhere, and there was no guarantee you or the user would know where to find the thing you were looking for. And they called it progress.
I’m not really sure Azure or AWS is much better. Not a defense of Oracle or Larry, just a dearth of free VPS servers out there, and I’m not sure I want to spin up a paid one with the other guys.
Im “lucky” enough to live in a region with abundant hydroelectric power. It’s still cheaper to heat your home with natural gas here…air source heat pumps might get close when they work.
Being able to recover after the apocalypse is also good, and having a useful cross-section of humanity’s knowledge would help with that.
I keep thinking about this. I can’t justify solar when I live in a northern country and pay about $0.06 USD/kWh, but the value of resilience also counts.
I was in an accident, knew it was going to happen, and braced myself. When it was all over, there was a loud noise, and I realized my foot was braced on the accelerator. Since the car had started to roll when I braced myself, this had little bearing on the accident. Also, this driver wasn’t in a state where he was bracing for an accident, but he may have jammed his foot on the pedal when he woke up.
Yeah, me being sure Blender had been open source since forever ago made me open the article. Now I have to get out of the basement and bathe.