Sytems that don’t receive security patches anymore well deserve that title. You’d hardly keep it airgapped if you care about Steam updates.

And Ubuntu at best.

To make a point you’d have to choose something we apparently can afford. What you describe is that we’re essentially broke and really can’t do anything about climate change.

Serious question: Does it have any relevance whether or not someone secures majority of the public vote? Other than debunking Trump’s landslide rethoric, I mean.

Sure just if fully given in this way it’s basically the same as an 11 character password.

Only of the attacker knows whether it’s a password or phrase. I’d argue that passwords are far more common and that’s what a cracker would focus on first.

should be resistant to attacks even if there is perfect knowledge of how it was generated

As far as I know there still is no way to create actual randomness. You’ll still have some pseudo-random number generator and a hopefully unguessable seed. If you have “perfect knowledge” about that, cracking the password is almost trivial.

With or without brackets?

I’d even argue that 10 as it started out was the best since xp

How can you so batantly skip over Win 7? I’ve heard some argue 10 was better (it wasn’t) but that 7 >> XP was pretty undisputed.

All three are shit compared to Linux, of course (Arch btw).

2000 was the first Windows with an NT kernel that was really usable on the desktop. Some may argue NT 4 but in 2000 almost everything worked as expected. XP was clearly better of course.

But you’re right - ME was actually a successor to 98 and XP was the joint successor to 2000 and ME.

Win8 was really damn annoying to use without a touchscreen

So many people say that but I actually liked the menu. It opened very fast and you could far more quickly find and hit the right tile than that stupid nested programs tree that was the norm in the start menus of earlier Windows versions.

I’d say considering that telemetry started to creep in primarily with Win 10, 8 was indeed better (meaning less bad).

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I didn’t mean they only last 2 years but battery degradation is a pretty common and known thing.

By a quick search I didn’t find any claim of storage battery lifetimes outside of 10-15 years, so there doesn’t seem to be a breakthrough in tech I wasn’t aware of. 15 years is hardly the lifetime of a house, so you certainly don’t “buy only once”.

Solar panels also don’t work indefinitely but their efficiency degradation is more on par with the lifetime of major parts of the building, like the roof itself.

What? Have you ever had a battery powered device for longer than 2 years?

Thought the same. Trivial questions are asked and answered all the time (more trivial than this one too, where the question to enter into Google isn’t even that obvious). When it comes to politically loaded topics people always like to swing the downvote hammer.

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Get on your own lawn: touch ~/grass

Scam and speculation are the only use cases after all.

Of course it’ll crash. Saying it’s imminent though suggests someone needs to exercise their shorts.

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Gotcha. We’re almost twice as many.

Software patents usually are shitty like that. And weirdly “state or the art” doesn’t seem to apply to them. Their only purpose is trolling your competition and the consumer is left with fewer and poorer choices and higher prices due to royalty costs.

One of the most infamous examples is Microsoft filing a patent for the mouse double click in 2002, getting it granted in 2004 while the thing was actually developed before the 80s (and not by Microsoft, of course).

I question the usefulness for society of patents in general but software patents especially should be abolished.