It appears that since Win10 is no longer being supported my Microsoft, it is now more secure than Win11.

(yes I know that there will be huge security holes in Win10 that will never be patched, but right now!? It appears to be the better option)

I may have to give up on Debian with Linux-Surface on my old Pro4 and revert back to Win10.

I will keep Debian+Steam on my gaming machine though…

World leaders need to laugh in his face and say “do you understand how tariffs work?”

Mission Failed Successfully.

They were sent in to “Move Fast and Break Things”. (AKA ruin everything). They did succeed this goal.

A gold or yellow wash should salvage them.

A mottled tan “filter” at the other end will also make them more cigarette-like.

One thing (only good thing) about Vista was that it rationalised Printer (and Scanner) Drivers.

The UI was consistent between printer manufacturers and everything could be accessed through one interface.

Then the Printer manufacturers complained to MS because they couldn’t have infinite branding all over the interface and the feature was dumbed down in 7.

Meanwhile Apple used the same UI for all Printers (based on CUPS) and didn’t even let a company logo appear in the interface.

Not all the Apple CUPS drivers were available for Linux CUPS so unfortunately Linux (at the time) still had their device compatibility issues.

It is Optimised.

Just not optimised for efficiency or ease of use.

It is optimised for extracting as much personal metadata as possible, feeding as many ads as possible, monopolising users attention and manipulating political opinions.

Managers aren’t being held accountable for their management decisions either.

“Oh, I sacked our entire workforce and sold all the company assets, so the figures will look amazing this month.”

<one month later>

“Oh, the figures are down this month, a golden handshake!? Thank you very much.”

The thing is that these reports (and training material and industry analysis) is Deloitte’s bread-and-butter.

If they have begun outsourcing their product to an LLM, and believe that the new is comparable to the product they previously provided, they are admitting that everything they have ever produced is garage and no one should be paying them anything.

Advanced Data Protection does require all iCloud Ecosystem devices to be current.

Not every person can afford the latest and greatest.

I’m gonna play devils advocate here (and probably be monstrously downvoted);

ICEBlock stored the location data of all its users on Apples iCloud Servers. This the perfect target for ICE; a complete database of locations of every person who doesn’t want ICE to know where they are.

One assumption is that that Apple realised how tempting this data is to the current demonstrative administration and purged it before ICE could get their civil-liberty-abusing mitts on it.

Despite their shady firmware and atrocious software, HP do make some good quality hardware.

The Razorblade model of proprietary ink coupled with restrictive firmware falls apart when you role-your-own firmware.

I remember that he (or someone pretending to be him) was in an and for Sensodyne toothpaste.

Canonical project page;

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

I admit that that is a pretty big assumption, but I do have faith in the people.

It may be misplaced faith.

The only way out is;

1. Landslide against Republicans for 2026 MidTerms.
2. Landslide agains Republicans in 2028; to the point where they no longer exist.
3. New progressive Democratic Party.
4. Landslide against Right-Wing Democrats in 2030 Midterms
5. Landslide against Right-Wing Democrats in 2032.

I let my Phone (and CarPlay) map my route for me; but I do like throwing a spanner in its workings by deliberately taking a wrong turn to explore.

Previously, I would do the same, but then I would have to pull over and spend 15 minutes browsing the Street Directly trying to figure out where I was before I was able to continue my journey.

Having a frictionless (and relatively) safe way of exploring has empowered me.

There were rumours that our two local Street Directories had been made Out-Of-Print. (Melway and UBD)

They are both still active, and a great resource for historians, but their distribution has been seriously curtailed.

We also have a collection of Adventure maps called Rooftops which still have great circulation despite the proliferation of Off-Road mapping apps.

Having offline-paper maps are invaluable when in certain conditions. I have been told that Rooftops are generated by one Cartographer who uses a Pushbike as his exclusive surveying vehicle. (Citation needed)

They were also semi structured. All my school-friends started with the same first area code and first chunk. I just had to know where they lived and remember the last 4 digits.

Mobile Phone numbers were randomly generated, and unless a social group deliberately got sequential numbers because we all got our phones at the same time, there would be no way to associate numbers.

Botulinum Toxin overdose.

That sounds like you can be replaced with a LLM. Let’s do that and save the company millions of dollars a year while us Plebeians got on with doing the real work and making money.