Because all of what you’ve listed is easily managed at an enterprise level. It sounds like your Windows admins are lazy, or you have executives that actually like those shitty features. I’ve seen that happen before too.

None of what you’ve listed besides start menu web search is enabled at my workplace.

I’ll agree 1000% that a lot of those settings don’t need to be locked behind admin rights though, and there should be an easier way for enterprise admins to leave more of these settings up to their end-users.

That’s effectively why Microsoft’s plan to restart Three Mile Island is stalled out. They want it to be paid by taxpayer dollars despite (as far as I know) having no plans to provide the generated electricity to taxpayers.

Is it islamophobic to point out that their holy prophet had a bride that is widely believed to have been between six and nine years old when they married, and to have been nine years old when the marriage was consumated?

I get that isn’t explicitly encouraging it, but I’ve never heard of any context that in any way justifies their prophet having sex with a nine year old (not that any possibly could).

I expect that a decent amount of sales of these are just people who don’t care replacing their PC.

I’d be shocked if there’s in any way a statistically significant amount of these purchases driven by the “ai features”.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this has been tried numerous times in numerous places, and despite the positive results it only has ever become an option for workers at specific businesses (at best). I’ve seen this article many many times.

There’s been no widespread movement for it.

For as long as companies can’t even handle standardized work from home, I don’t think it’s likely that this will become a norm either.

“Year of the Linux Desktop” all over again.

Yep, and in the statement they’re referring to, it explicitly suggests that their users should set up PGP.

Context is important.

It was made by 4chan users over a decade ago, when that sort of thing was accepted there as “edgy humor”. Clearly there’s been some growing up, since they don’t offer/support those domains now.

Domains you could register an email with them at.

Ugh, yeah.

They were started by 4chan users, back when that sort of thing was more accepted there as “edgy humor”. Glad they grew up.

Yeah, I don’t know why they don’t have the normal “what is this” text from their main page at least at the bottom or something.

cock.li offers free email service with no personal info needed for signup. They’ve done this for 11 years, with no major outages to my knowledge, relying only on donations without explicitly asking for them or bugging their users.

I think at some point they also offered paid VPS services.

Very useful for accounts that you don’t want connected to your other “identities”, but where you’ll still need them associated with a real email for things like password resets.

It’s also tor friendly.

So… money laundering and a tool for storing assets in non-liquid form, as usual with the high end art world.

Yes, but also whoever set the defaults for the *arr tools. Why would any filename with extra shit past the extensions you’re looking for be considered an acceptable result?

Tack $ on the end of your regex, for fucks sake.