Not unfortunate, just what I’ve come to expect of Microsoft UX and marketing.

I think you’re right. In my mind it was a South African company, I’ve though like that since before Wikipedia exists or something.

Well they’re clearly not using Arch. Btw.

It does

It doesn’t hurt that Ubuntu is from South Africa. Other Linux companies that I know of may be European like Suse but they’re derived from Red hat who’s an American company. Ubuntu comes from Debian which I think is not a company?

So… Windows is an ad delivery system.hmm, it makes sense, because as an operating system that’s the only thing it does well is show ads.

How much does an OEM windows cost these days?

I quite like their laptops but they put the most horrible keyboards I’ve ever used. I’ve had chronic rsi and my fingers physically hurt less than 8h of use.

Do they have high end laptops (32g RAM, top i7 or similar, for Android development) at reasonable prices with good keyboards? I’ve been on Xps for a while.

That’s great bit of history

It may be useful for people reading if you could add headers about when each decade starts, since you have many of them there

If history is the best way to predict the future, current Republicans will be ashamed of future Republicans, but in private. In public they’ll play along.

it’s not arbitrary

Voice over: it is arbitrary

What do you mean by normal sleep and pretty well? My XPS isn’t that old and it drinks from battery while sleeping quite fast, 12h and 50% goes down.

My older Dell laptop only drains 1-2% per hour on normal sleep which is also not acceptable, I can’t leave it like that over the weekend.

Nobody’s mentioning putting laptops into deep sleep where no battery power is being used.

Oh how do I do this? Can you choose what processes it kills first even if they’re not the worst offenders?

Yep, the Firefox thing is weird. I’d run a memory test . Does this laptop do the same thing with Windows?

Also op mentions 20 years, were your other experiences like this?

And that’s the same reason Linux and open source doesn’t, because when developers are empowered to do things that impact them, shit happens

My understanding is that it’s called work profile. It’s like having 2 users in the same phone. One is personal and you manage it. The other is company owned and you can only install apps whitelisted by your it admin.

Same here

I loved last FM when it came out, best recommendation engine in its days. Then they kinda died and reborn into you tube powered.

Moved to Spotify, then the paid bit rate was down graded.

Then moved to Deezer, but the buffering and errors after a few hours play are really annoying.

This week my qobuz trial was over, so I cancelled Deezer and I’m paying for qobuz.

Streaming services are kinda a commodity now, the catalogs are basically the same, except Pandora that had a better coverage for Nina Pastori than others. But this also changed from time to time.

Who’s cyan? What’s going on?

Many star trek novels don’t do DRM. I buy them at Kobo, so I’m also skipping American middle man.