Laurel Raven

Well of course, that makes perfect sense to me! What would we do if the ISPs ran out of bits? Can’t just use them anywhere you know, those suckers aren’t cheap!

I think it does, but only blocks competing advertisers

(Note: I actually have no clue if they do and I’m talking out my ass; that said, I would absolutely not be surprised one bit if they did exactly that)

Such an underrated movie

This. Any time paying customers get treated worse than pirates, they’re only incentivised to pirate next time. It absolutely blows my mind that corpos seem incapable of figuring that out.

Heavy emphasis on maybe

Python exists but I personally like PowerShell more. I’m not crazy about it being Microsoft owned, but it’s at least open source at this point, for whatever that’s worth.

I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL

PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I’ve been worried for a bit the direction they’re going with that… Everything they’re doing now is Azure and they’re pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used

Just pointing out, Plex and *arr work on Linux too…

I dunno, I’ve got a laptop who’s CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it…

This is the first time they’ve intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.

Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.

Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it’s blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.

Or I could switch to Linux…

OH WAIT, I already did that, darn. Such a shame I can’t ditch Windows twice.

Too busy with Satisfactory 1.0 to do anything else at the moment, but I’ll probably check it out eventually

I’m not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there

Thanks! I’ve not been having many problems, but if it’s causing a performance loss it would be good to take care of it, I’ll check that out

This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal

Not just any corporation, but one that’s done this exact kind of thing themselves

There is no good guy here

I’m not familiar with these vulkan packages, what should I look for?

I’m not sure why that’s so surprising actually

That’s not true, the placebo effect is very real

I bypassed their DRM ink cartridges years ago by buying literally anything other than an HP