Posts by Wolfclaw

"IF" Microsoft sue they will probably have just cause, especially having access to the full source code, but if they are wrong, will have left themselves open for a massive compensation claim, hence the vigorous code validation.

So UK and EU both come up with the same idea and as usual both look at different directions, when it would be I don't common sense (yes I know we are talking politicians and unelected unaccountable bureaucrats) to work together and speed up development, cut costs and inter agency connectivity ?

Shame Lotus SmartSuite was never gifted to open source by IBM when it stopped being competitive and let the community drive it's development :(

Some suggestions for OFCOM.

1. No charges for changing packages for customers in or out of contract.

2. If out of contract, existing customers must be offered same deals as new customers.

3. No signup or connection charges.

4. Failing to meet customer care levels, £10m fine per percentage point missed.

5. Old copper cabling/coax to be phased out by 2030, including in home cabling.

QA costs money and on a balance sheet has no practical value, as Microsoft and many others have switched to let the users do the testing, not like they will get any financial penalties?

Minipc as router running Opnsense + Unbound + Adblock = no adverts or calling home

Will somebody not think of Microsoft and the OEMs profit margins and corporate bonuses, if nobody is refreshing estates. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft abandons PC requirements to boost Windows 11 licence sales to corporates at the expense of new OEM PC sales. You are only a Microsoft partner, so long as they don't have revenue shrink and will abandon you the first chance they get!

Simple solution, if the Megacorps want our business, they open datacenters in the appropriate regulatory zone and no data gets shared back to US based companies, not the data or the reports based on that data, until the USA becomes a respectable data citizen obeying everybody's laws and that won't happen under Trump or the 3 letter agencies ! As for governments using US clouds, that is just plain stupid and asking for abuse !

Microsoft is like your street corner pimp, just say no to their crack !

One more step towards UK Gestapo and a fascist state, although many believe the UK Police have reached the level.

When I switched to using an old PC as my router running OPNsense, installed the Adguard plugin and some extra firewall rules, watch all my worries get blocked before it hit my internal network. Some consumer routers allow 3rd party plugins to do this too, if your an Asus user, checkout https://www.snbforums.com/forums/asuswrt-merlin.42/ and https://www.snbforums.com/threads/asuswrt-merlin-addon-software-catalog.82059/

Well, he hasn't had to leave the building via a 6th floor window, which is what normally happens to people who upset Putin.

1. Unauthorized damage to a protected computer - No, he used their own broken code to beat the system, no physical damage to the system can be proven, no different to somebody beating the odds at gambling

2. Wire fraud - Yes

3. Attempted Hobbs Act extortion

4. Money laundering charges

He's going down though, when they catch him, although a few millions Dollars, you can live well in a country with no USA extradition treaty.

Starmer will soon be getting a nice visit from Google/Apple asking him to dial back the inquiry in the name of business and few pieces of silver donated to the party to sell out.

Google just had over Chromium to open source and let us have the browser we want, quick, bloat free, spy free, plugins free and Google/Microsoft etc concentrate on their other businesses.

Wonder when it gets a v1, if it is as simple and quick as they say, porting something like Proxmox/OPNsense or even as a router OS?

and too make it even more Windows like, to have the full capabilities, you have to donate for a licence, yep almost a Windows clone !!

Somebody with enough dosh, needs to take all these Windows 11 restrictions, requirements and unwanted changes to a court and see if what happens if legally challenged.

Another botched patch, business shrugs its shoulders, sighs and the world continues as Microsoft knows, businesses have too much invested in any other platform for them to be concerned.

The product isn't what is dangerous, but the badly written code and firmware from these companies, who do the bare minimum for consumer products.

Why hasn't the Irish DPC told Microsoft to delete all data collected since it wasn't compliant and make them ask each member again, maybe a they have €310m reasons to be happy, brown envelopes stuffed with pay rises all round with a postal address of Redmond, Washington, USA?

Edge's market share, at just over 5 percent, yes, but if you take that % and put in business customers, they practically have a monopoly, as most business just go with the flow and choose the simplest option to support, especially if they still need legacy browser support. !

Some say, they deliberately let things get out of control so Sir Stammer can enforce draconian laws and surveillance state, you have to wonder?

Pro-Palestinian marches little or no police presence, lots of laws broken and nothing done, right-wing lots of coppers, some minor disturbances but nothing major and heavy handed police.

Not going to go all political, but Policing in the UK is a shambles and inconsistent but what grinds my gears is when Sir Stammer puffs out his chest and says he will get tough, were was he getting tough when head of CPS and did nothing during grooming scandal due to the powers that be not wishing to upset a certain racial/religous group!!

The Labour nightmare is starting to come true !!

Well Microsoft maybe right that Win10 is the last OS I will need from them, after many trials of distro's I'm now using Debian + KDE plasma and liking it on my laptop, so my desktop may go the same way with WINE taking over and stripped down secondary boot partition just for Windows 10 gaming. Even my servers are now going Proxmox rather than WinServer and my router being replaced by a Proxmox+opnsense box.

When it comes to Firefox Mozilla has lost the plot and any direction, maybe time for the community to give them 2 fingers and fork it back and start reverting some of the dumb changes that have ruined a very capable piece of softwrae.

So what this story basically says is Google are bunch of lying scheming scumbags, who you should not do business with with major antibiotics in case they pass on their disease. Now about those regulators that obviously lied too, will they do anything or just roll over at the next wine and cheese party held bribe, sorry entertain by Megacorp or maybe seriously start thinking about breaking up the company?

I'll be testing this one on my older laptop to be my XCP-ng Orchestra machine, will report back.

No Thanks

OK I'm a true Windows user and a complete Linux noob, only played with early stuff years ago, so thought I'd give this a go at the weekend, as I needed a simple and light distro for an older laptop that was to build and manage XCP-ng Orchestra to manage my VMs.

What a nightmare, simple stuff that Debian handled wasn't installed with the default or installing was harder, as it sometimes referred to a fork of some sort. (Git, Curl)

So in the end, back to Debian, that compiled and run first time. Sorry but until Linux gets their finger out and makes it all idiot proof, standardised and idiot proof as Windows (go on hate me), it will never be a serious consumer competitor to Windows.

Once again Microsoft updates quality control is a joke, how do you accidentally release this to your server product, this is just incompetence and another reason why Microsoft cannot be trusted to manage an evergreen OS, when it can just install stuff as and when it releases it, without local oversight.

This is more and more like the old Microsoft anti-competitive monopolist, time for the EU to give the tech titans a good kicking as the USA regulator won't !

AI aside, I quiet like the reimagining, maybe Microshits should give him a job, so long as we can move taskbars to the sides !

Apps via Meta ads, no thanks may as well hand over my bank account to Russian scammers than trust those a$$holes.

any company can migrate to Linux, they just need the will, the time to migrate apps and the money to put in to the project. End result, longer hardware refresh cycles, really long term O/S support, long term savings. Windows 11 is Microsoft legal attempt at monopoly with the hardware manufacturers being co-conspirators.

Interesting bit that caught my eye, Microsoft have to pay to port to Linux? Maybe Activision have their eyes on a small hand held or desktop combo Linux gaming system? if so, maybe Microsoft just handed Linux its desktop day !

USA to China, we know you breaking our export bans but can't 100% prove it

China to USA, we know you know we are breaking your export bans and that you can't prove it, so we'll just say we aren't to keep everybody happy and in a job.

Just keep the status quo going ...

The manager failed to develop any intelligence in telling people they are now on the backup.

When the fines amount to nothing more than a couple of minutes running costs, then these companies just laugh and consider it a business cost, fines should start be per user, see how the like paying 100's million $ fines every court case.

EU will bottle it under pressure of Megacorps frightened of losing of billions !

I run Diversion on Asus router and Windows devices Badger and Ublock Origin, probably trap 90% of crap out there, as nothing is fool proof.