Yes, thank you, exactly. The centralized model has its benefits but it also can act as a single point of failure.

If I was going to analyze from an engineering perspective I would focus on when these inevitable events occur due to human error do we have adequate tools to roll back updates? Do we snapshot OS drives before updates? Is there adequate Safe Mode or Fallback Tools to diagnose which files are offending in order to allow the user to remove them.

In my view the windows user isn’t dignified to have the skills or intelligence needed to workaround a “setback” issue like the one yesterday.

It doesn’t help that NTFS is missing modern capabilities, or that there isn’t easy to use DIFF for the layman to understand which files were added to the filesystem that may be causing the breakage.

To be fair though even with those pot holes filled the entire design paradigm of Windows and a proprietary platform is part of the problem. Software is not broken up into package modules that can be assembled into a functioning system it is encumbered with “anti-piracy” boogie man where the software treats the user as an enemy and is designed to break.

Linux isn’t like that. I’ve cloned many distro drives and swapped them into new machines and with 1 or 2 tweaks they JustWork

I see many people on the net defending Microsoft as blameless for technical reasons.

My criticisms were that Microsoft just sucks as you interpreted correctly and offered a eloquent summary. Thank You.

Where I think the entire conversation should move is –

What are the design flaws that allowed this to happen?

“More Rust & Less C” I see some people suggest as this was allegedly a null pointer issue.

And is Windows Broken By Design? My opinion answer - Yes.

(Okay, and what to do about it before the next billion dollars is lost. I would think critical infrastructure should have a model similar to NixOS in immutability but that’s just my opinion.)

Microsoft has many faults and I’ll criticize them as I please. And if Linux is a culprit in a global outage someday I’ll contemplate criticizing them too.

This “Not Microsoft’s Fault” comes off as white knighting for Muh Billion Dolla Corporation.

Do we really need to SIMP for the company town.

Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and others deserve every ounce of vitrol they earn through their shitty practices. Again I am criticizing them for being shitty not for the particulars of System X vs System Z but for the aftermath.

No because Windows Indoctrination starts with Academia.

There will have to be heavy monetary losses before IT is forced to leave their golden goose that keeps them employed with “problems” to “fix” that soak up hours each.

But maybe they will notice the monetary losses and competitors not using their trash will pull ahead – that will get their attention. Still they require the cognition to understand the problem and select a solution and the Linux Jungle is hard for corporate minds to navigate without smart IT help.

Every system has its faults. And I’m still going to dogpile the system with the most faults. But hell Microsoft did buy GitHub, Halo, MineCraft, and a million other things they will probably find a way to buy Linux and ruin it for us just like they ruin everything else.

Let’s see, …we are somewhere in between Extend and Extinguish on the roadmap.

Edit: Case & Point, RIP RedHat & IBM and GitHub CoPilot, what a great idea. RIP Atom Editor and probably a million other things. Do we have a KilledByMicrosoft website yet? I hope people in the pharmacy could get their prescriptions or we might have to add peoples names to the list.

There’s something beautiful about the simplicity of Gemini in Kristal and LaGrange.

You set your font and colors offline and it’s universal.

Hyper Text Web is great but I wonder if we will see a return to simplicity in high tech circles now that the Net is the new “Television Rules The Nation”

Someone should sue the Roads Company for not stopping speeding and exchange of mp3 CDs.

Ye Old GIMP

I long for the day PDF can just be replaced by SVG since its basically just vector anyways.

Boten Anna’s does

Only buy phones with a MicroSD, all Android transfer nonsense will waste your time.

I remember their “1 Click Install”

It’s tracking trackball treasure

If only the map archives were organized properly. It would be cool of everyone uploaded their SCM and SCX and then dupeguru could run over it all.

DuckDuckGo censors just like Google.

Their CEO is trash.

Federated is the only way.

Edit: To clarify, they are controlled opposition who serve the same master.

The best be right now is https://searx.space like https://searx.garudalinux.org or similar.

Not to be that guy, but they fixed the IMAP data eating bug in 128 right? Somebody put me at ease please.

Reminds me of how Thunderbird does Matrix, IRC, Pidgin, RSS and others.

I think there is room for something like this.

My only request would be that I can have filters in my feed to remove posts with certain words or emojis or profiles with descriptions including emojis of people I don’t want to converse with online.

My bad needed more coffee

The prior verbiage threw me off.

how do we distribute videos and watch them without data collection?

So opinion answer to the latter. Opinion answer. Don’t ignore YouTube.

Steam didn’t ignore Win32 and ask 10k devs to port to Linux. They partnered up with CodeWeavers, WINE and others to create Proton and it made the former task largely unnecessary.

Expand federated video services to cache all videos they stream in case the original gets dunked on. And then at the same time grow the platform.

A subsection of FOSS hates wealth, but people need to be able to lift themselves out of poverty, there has to be a profit motive and that profit has to largely go to the content creators.

Without motives and incentives you can build the most beautiful codebase ever and it won’t take off.

Mass censorship is coming, so platforms that don’t censor and host in countries where this is legally protected will have the advantage of growing new mega sites.

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

Also recommendations for a good remote to go with these?

I was so desperate I was thinking of reprogramming a wireless number pad cherry MX low profile or something.

It should have volume buttons, arrow keys, previous, next, pause, etc… Something a old person could understand.

Numbers and alphabet not required.

Smooth scrolling? Maybe I’m wrong