Actually Second Strike capability is the great deterrence.

If an aggressor can’t knock out essentially all of their enemies nuclear response capability on the first strike, the return volley will be devastating.

It’s why the US developed nuclear missile subs - to have second strike capability.

Everyone seems to forget for about 4 years the US was the only country with demonstrated atomic bomb capability.

They could have threatened any other country to give them the keys to the kingdom as no one else had first strike, let alone second strike capability.

Yep, I’m rocking a 2019 Lenovo today and it runs a treat!

I have a 2010 Lenovo X series that still runs fine with Linux. Great machines.

Well the base model starts at $3700…

So maybe $10k all in? Haha

Meh.

Their understanding and objectives are simply different than game devs.

And game devs understanding and objectives are different than mine.

MS is a massive org with a research arm with more money than Croesus. God only knows what their C-level and upper management have gleaned from that arm.

At a minimum, we aren’t privy to their actual objectives, so statements like “they don’t get gaming” are meaningless - they get it as well as they need to for their objectives.

Not to defend them, just that we don’t really know what they intend, what they’re really trying to do.

But to call them ignorant would be naive.

You only get AI if you stick with the stock OS or don’t do anything with it.

The advantage of the Pixel is they can be factory unlocked, which permits root or flashing a different OS.

My current phones are Pixel 5 - they $100 these days, and run great with Graphene or Lineage

I think your closing is where it’s at-unless you know the chemistry, don’t go mixing shit.

Well, wasn’t talking about Mac here, but the MS implementation.

And anything more than tens of megabytes for an icon on the taskbar is bloatware. It’s not like pulling this data is hard.

Additionally, I get that same data in a few megabytes on my phone. Why the hell does a desktop app need multiple orders of magnitude more ram, even considering the difference in environment?

That would defeat the purpose of the shorts

Well, yea, here you are acting like you’re special for leaving reddit.

And then you stoop to sophistry and insults when someone calls out your BS.

Get lost.

Backwards compatibility is a pretty limited problem - I have lots of Windows software that simply won’t run at all on current versions. I have to run them in a VM of the appropriate windows version.

UNIX really established the baseline for what we think of as the foundational operating system, and Linux took that concept another step forward.

It provides the most basic hardware interface required for constructing an OS. Which is why there are so many Linux distros today - you can build as minimal an OS as required for your use-case.

Could someone come up with a different OS approach at the kernel layer? Sure, but I believe that would require a different hardware approach - which we already see with just ARM processors. ARM and x86 require uniquely compiled kernels because the hardware is fundamentally different (same with RISC).

After the kernel and getting to what most of us think of with an OS is really just UI - how a user interacts with the system and conceptualizes it. We’ve pretty well standardized on storage space concepts (drives/folders etc) data stores (databases, etc), and all the rest. To use a different paradigm would take a massive change.

Microsoft experimented with the Memex concept with their My Life Bits research, even built a version of Windows to treat the entirety of its storage as a massive database. It worked, but it had performance problems (late 90’s) and users weren’t quite ready for it.

Instead we have cloud today, which is essentially pushing the same concepts of abstraction - new users today think less about where stuff is stored, instead think about asking the system to find something (MS Cloud stuff is how they ended up imolementing the My Life Bits research).

So in a way we’re already seeing a change in how operating systems are perceived by the typical user. Mobile really drives this with limited screen space, limited storage, and apps as the representatives of user data. I hate it.

Or Palm, or Android

Who uses these dumb ass apps?

Now this garbage is the bloatware we complain about.

We had Widgets with Win7 that had a lot of potential. They could’ve fixed the security problem those things had, instead they removed them entirely and gave us this garbage.

Oh, yea just fuck being faithful to one’s oaths, commitments, or obligations (which is the definition of loyalty). The etymology comes from Latin for law, meaning to be faithful, honorable, law-abiding.

Oh it’s mean, but siblings are like wolves, we gotta toughen each other up. Haha

What’s odd is every time I go to the hospital now, checkin uses an HP tablet that’s easily 14", running Windows.

It’s just a laptop without a keyboard.

And here we have Moto acting like they’re making something new.

Yea, generally Android warns you about changing keyboards as preventing unlocking.

This is because any keyboard a user installs is a user app, and not started until after a user logs in.

Never disable the built-in keyboard (as you just found out).

Happy to hear the work-around got you in, good reminder for the rest of us.

Rough crowd.

Are you one of my siblings? I feel so at home.

There’s no American Healthcare System - there are numerous medical systems, insurance approaches, etc.

I say this as someone who’s used numerous healthcare insurance models.

The worst are HMO. Those are the kind of systems most people rail about.

If you have PPO insurance, getting something addressed is much easier as those doctors are independent and not beholden to a bureaucratic system, so can operate as scientists, not party-line holders.

Edit: If you’re young and healthy, look into high-yield health saving accounts (not the HSA everyone gets from work, this is a different thing). The idea is you put money into the account, and whatever you don’t use that year remains in there, with the interest.

You pay for stuff out of pocket (from the account) up to a max, then insurance kicks in.

Wish I’d done this through my 20’s and 30’s, where I spent very little time at the doc.

Lucky you, as far as anyone knows, it is.

Isn’t it because it’s a cereal grain?