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This is exactly what I'm getting at.

I personally don't use Wine but I've encountered people online in the last 10+ years that use the argument that it's "good enough" for people to fully switch to Linux. Realistically, I don't think Wine actually convinced more than a handful of users to abandon Windows

ralphie02on NPM Is Joining GitHub

Hasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years? Furthermore, how does being backed by Valve actually be of any significant value? I've heard of this argument for a couple of years now and I'm still not convinced (not that I follow Wine development that closely).

ralphie02on Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

Can you give more details on this? Anecdotal is fine

I loosely follow AWS, GCP and Azure but I always get mixed opinions on them, especially the last two

ralphie02on Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware

Quite frankly, I think the post should get downvoted more. It's not an opinion, it's a fact that those apps are NOT necessary for the phone's functionality. The user even mentions that the apps are a 'want' to some users, not a need.

What makes the bloatware annoying is that they cannot be fully uninstalled, only disabled. I'm one of the users who disabled these google apps and it annoys me that I cannot remove them.

ralphie02on Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California?

Can you elaborate on the national defense? How is the highway useful with defending the country? Defending from who?

I can only think of highways as secondary runways for planes but I'm unsure as to how much that helps your case.

ralphie02on Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years

Don't get the downvote. I thought this was midly funny.

ralphie02on The $349 Nokia 7.1 brings a low price, flagship-style design to the US

not sure what you mean. I have a nokia 8 and it has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack

ralphie02on Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley

As per the comment below, the population between Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal is about a third of the total population (about 12M).

Bit pedantic but this really is a far cry from being the "vast majority" of Canada's population.

ralphie02on Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

Thank you for this and everyone who has downvoted an incorrect and misleading statement

ralphie02on Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean

Maybe your bones are too dense, though to be honest, I've never heard of anyone with your issue in floating/treading water. I've always assumed that everyone has enough buoyancy to float most of their body.

ralphie02on THIS THING DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK – Issue #32405 – Microsoft/vscode

Totally the guy's fault. No one in their right mind should have 3 months (or even a few days) worth of code without a backup/version control system set up.

ralphie02on Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover

This is probably where Windows 10S (pushed in education) comes into play. It's a version that offers "secure & superior" performance over normal Win10. Since 10S can only install from the Store app, devs are `forced` to port their app.

Only time will tell how effective this strategy is. I for one would love for this to succeed if it means better security for users (especially on older, technologically challenged folks)

ralphie02on Google Has Dropped Google Instant Search

Oh man, thought it was just me. Always hated that 'feature'

ralphie02on 300 miles of secret UK cycle paths have been discovered [audio]

Good find! 3 more days before the kickstarter ends and I just submitted my first pledge!! I truly believe in a more efficient (cheaper?) means of transportation. The more big city/country to expand cycling, the better.

ralphie02on My Family’s Slave

I'm sure he and his siblings were pretty sympathetic, which is why the tried to defend her from their parents and help her with her duties. This made their mother angry because they would take their Lola's side.

This is actually quite typical of kids (especially in asian cultures?). Being timid and following your parents orders wholeheartedly are so ingrained it's criminal. The children could only do so much as young teenagers; I question the eldest more because he was 20 and has noticed the slavery for a while yet didn't do much to help their Lola (or maybe he did, the author just failed to mention it).

Regardless, it seems like you're being unsympathetic to the author and his siblings. You don't know what they've been through: poverty, fear, abandonment, humiliation, anxiety, etc (speculations). It's a whole lot easier to judge someone's situation based on your current status and upbringing. Just because you think you would've been more resolute if you were in his place doesn't mean that you actually would have been. Remember, this is a family from Asia in the 60-70s.

Not an attack. Just a reminder to put things in perspective.

ralphie02on Lessons from last week’s cyberattack

I guess I don't see it that way. Extended support (which includes security patches) are only for paying customers.

ralphie02on Lessons from last week’s cyberattack

"The chaos surprised many security watchers because Microsoft issued an update in March that patched the underlying vulnerability in Windows 7 and most other supported versions of Windows. (Windows 10 was never vulnerable.)"

source: https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/05/wcry-microsoft-is...

So I don't really know what you mean by 'hoarding the fix'. The patch was not initially released to some OS versions because they are NO LONGER supported.

ralphie02on Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP

> I believe Windows XP should have been supported for at least 50 years, considering how many people still depend on it. IMO, Microsoft has acted irresponsibly, and the decision was only driven by money.

I don't think you understand how much developer effort is required in maintaining such an old OS. In addition, these same developers need to get paid and since MS is in the business of making money, supporting a SW that massively burn cash (I assume the maintenance is not cheap) is blatantly foolish.

> Why not spend the next 50 years just maintaining Windows 10, just the way it is?

If I understand it correctly, this pretty much is the plan with Win10. It's supposed to be the last Windows OS

ralphie02on Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

that's a pretty shitty bug on their end. Now you've fucked two accounts, brilliant

ralphie02on Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

which adapter exactly are you referring to here? I have a 2015/2016 thinkpad yoga for work and I don't think it's the same/similar at all to the magsafe adapter. Magsafe comes off even with the gentlest, but firm, tug even at an angle. I can't say the same for my thinkpad