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Moving the taskbar has long been a great example showing the Feedback Hub is nothing but an empty void into which we are told to vent our frustrations. I personally have no desire to do it but the fact it rode the top of the charts as the highest suggested change for ages and Microsoft still said "no, not popular enough" proves that Microsoft will always use their own metrics, not the hub, to determine what to act and not act upon. The same goes for bugs. Sure, one could be widely reported on the hub, and many are, but that doesn't mean Microsoft gives a crap since they've shown it only matters in their own grand scheme of things, not what the hub says. They should just do away with it entirely instead of only using it as a catch-all to misdirect angry users away from themselves.

Wow. You can see those R&D dollars at work!

Microsoft has gone mad. Automatic full disk encryption on home desktop PCs. Wow. They're not even asking the user during Setup, they just do it. I can see this being useful on corporate PCs and every laptop because of the risk of data stealing, but still, Setup should ask the user beforehand, IMO.

Musk is an idiot who keeps meddling with everyone and everything. His dumb ass should stay in his lane.

Not sure why this would be considered news, are we going to post 100 articles for 100 posts he makes on X ?

The Windows cash-cow is ENTERPRISES and even these Windows 11 "stupid arbitrary requirements" are LOWER than proper enterprise security configuration recommendations. All customers (consumers and enterprises alike) want trust, safety, security, and reliability -- with a very solid dose of usability and versatility for their myriad array of endless use-cases. Making TPM 2.0 chips a baseline requirement is long overdue within secure computing circles. Your late-model smartphone has more stringent hardware security requirements than Windows 11. Think about THAT for a moment...

The fact that after all these years Windows 11 is still fighting for major share with Windows 10 is laughable and shows Microsoft's priorities are totally out of whack and not even users want Windows 11, on top of the fact it often can't even run officially because of these stupid arbitrary requirements.

Who gives a ###### what that guy says

So, what you are saying is that... Under Musk, X has now become a cesspool of ignorant, gullible, cowardly fools who easily fall for the baseless conspiracy theories and fearmongering scams from charlatans, snake-oil salesmen, and wanna-be demagogues. Whereas, Bluesky appears to be targeting the majority of rational, sane, educated, and decent Americans who aren't so easily fooled and prefer reality based on facts as supported by evidence. I guess I'd better get a Bluesky account then.

Bluesky has become an ultra narrow echo chamber for the left, for those that are comfortable with ONLY those people who agree with their opinions, and no one else. Living in a closed echo chamber, and hating on and vilifying opinions that are different than yours is not openness, and definitely not a democracy. I'm not defending X for the record, I'm just stating facts about what Bluesky is currently.

Linux's main issue isn't the kernel or hw support. It's the absolute ######ing idiocy of all the distros and all the fanboys who stubbornly jerk off to Terminal 24/7. That's Linux's main issue that will always prevent it from reaching any meaningful audiences. When you have to spend 3 hours googling around for a) outdated commands or b) totally impossible to understand noodles of commands that you blindly slap into Terminal in a hope for desired result, all for actions that could be easily done via GUI in as simple way as double clicking something. And every god damn time I'm met with "uh oh but it's easier with Terminal". No it's ######ing not. Instead of clicking a binary or right clicking it and selecting "Run as" to elevate its rights I have to use a god damn Terminal with totally idiotic syntaxes and battle with its moronic folder structure and separation of user and system space that I of course have to memorize or spend another ######ing 3 hours searching online for them. It's just mind blowing how much time I always have to waste on searching for solutions that could be just clicks away. But no, you have to use god damn Terminal like it's 19 ######ing 80s all over again. It's end of 2024, this command prompt nonsense needs to die from consumer space. I don't care if server admins love it, it has ABSOLUTELY NO place in consumer oriented "workstation" distros. Also unify god damn binaries. On Windows, EXE is EXE. Here everything is all over the ######ing place and it's total nightmare to deal with anything that isn't in official repositories and there's ALWAYS something you need that isn't there in every damn distro. Yeah, I'm ###### because I'm dealing with this BS in Linux for almost 25 years and it's still the exact same ###### it was 25 years ago. I want proper alternative to Windows and we're never going to get it because of Terminal ######ing fanboys.

Of course the data hungry devils will oppose such law, they only give a damn about their bottom line, and this will be taking away many of their targets for data harvesting/ads.

Now sue the post office for not opening everyone's mail, since much of this material is shared that way. The logic is identical.

That's crazy how the Linux folks can turn an article about a backup software to "I use Linux btw"...

Hopefully they can resolve that issue... bluesky is a great replacement for twitter and for the people that don't like what has became X.

Oh great. Why would anyone want this. Especially on a home PC.

Forcing a terrible half-baked ui experience down the throats of unsuspecting users. I hate to say it but this is peak Microsoft.

We need these GPUs to be good. We need more competition in the GPU space.

How does that tell you that? Hackers target Linux because of its server market share. Servers are also great value targets.

God help us all

I don’t use BitLocker but to claim nobody requires TPM show your ignorance on the subject. What buggy updates have they released exactly that were worse than anything Apple released? Yes, TPM 2.0 should be mandatory on the Enterprise SKU only, where it's really needed. For the rest of SKUs, it should be optional. Do you have one? Perfect, let's use it. You don't? No big deal, carry on. But it's very clear that everybody doesn't need it, despite what Microsoft claims. They just want to be like Apple now.

Forget about hardware issues they are only the tip of the iceberg. Windows 10 is just better in what an OS need to do: let users open programs and files, and nothing else. The windows 11 start menu is terrible compared to that in win10 as long as they don't fix that people will not upgrade to 11 (let alone buy new hardware in order to run a worse OS)

Since Windows 11 went to 24H2 I can understand why the popularity has dropped with all the bugs introduced and forcing people to buy a new computer because of incompatible hardware, what do you expect. Microsoft is going backwards not forward anymore. I'm still sticking with Windows 10 Pro does what I need and more.

This is a nonsense comment given that the problem here is literally just one inherent to decentralized platforms (like the internet) and has nothing to do with its founders. Also complete and utter nonsense given that Bluesky was initially created by Jack Dorsey from Twitter and today is owned and run by Jay Graber, a 33 year old American software engineer from Tulsa, who runs it as a public benefit corporation.

Bluesky has become an ultra narrow echo chamber for the left, for those that are comfortable with ONLY those people who agree with their opinions, and no one else. Living in a closed echo chamber, and hating on and vilifying opinions that are different than yours is not openness, and definitely not a democracy. I'm not defending X for the record, I'm just stating facts about what Bluesky is currently. I do not care about red and blue politics, but bluesky has several advantages over now what is "x". it has relatively cheap API which x killed. It has very good documentation for even making your own app front-end for bluesky. It also has no adds as of now and does not charge tens of thousands of dollars for corporate entities etc.

they didn't mention how it breaks many games

Amazing the amount of time that Microsoft takes to implement such stupid and microscopic but nice-to-have features in Windows...

It's just so bizarre that EU screams privacy on all ends and then comes out with this absolutely invasive draconian plan to screen EVERYONE'S messages. WTF!? Also it's always the standard "think of the children" excuse because anyone arguing against would look bad because surely no one wants to defend pedophiles. Reality is, the matter is entirely irrelevant to that and has EVERYTHING to do with privacy as human right. That involves "the good guys". Because it NEVER ends just there. It's like EU learned nothing from Stasi Germany era.

Shot dead? Sorry, we dont cover that.

And they think standing firm on TPM 2.0 is a better option than abandoning Win 10 support for hundreds of millions of people... To me, that's a far higher security concern.

Well, he's not made a public idiot of himself on TV and social media while spreading so many lies his own AI calls him a source of Misinformation, so that's a solid head start he has on Musk.

Did the author of this article do any research at all? >This decision marks a significant shift in Google's mobile strategy as the company looks to distance itself from reliance on Qualcomm's Snapdragon platforms. Google hasn't used Qualcomm anything in many years now (and have used Samsung modems) so not a shift at all. >This shows that Google is increasingly focused on establishing its in-house mobile ecosystem, independent of any third-party chipset vendors. This sentence makes no sense. They are not using an in-house mobile part just a different modem from another third party.

The article sounds like it's Google's aim to distance itself from Qualcomm to become more independent. How does picking MediaTek make them less dependent? Why is it not simply that MediaTek happened to have a better offering this time around and Google went with that without any further agenda?

I can't think of any Windows feature that I've been more against. I simply don't trust Microsoft.

Stating that these companies work the same all over the world shows you have no idea what you're talking about. I live in Switzerland where we also have health insurance and have never been denied anything. My daughter has had knee surgery twice in two years, including copious amounts of physiotherapy and I haven't seen a bill. It is all handled by our insurance. Oh and no pre-authorizations or anything like that required. So no, it isn't the same in all the world. Every country has it's issues and nuances but this is uniquely a problem in the US.

Who can relate to this.....??

Bluesky is just Gab but for the political left who are some of the more radicalized.

Americans should be getting whatever they need before he gets in too.