r_deckard

much better than anyone before him within the last few hundred years

John XXIII was pretty progressive, wouldn't you think?

Looks like Australia will profit. We have a lot of lithium, and some of the others, china's been undercutting the price for a while.

Gonna be a legal shitshow when he kicks off - imagine all the claims on his estate.

Panasonic, or some of the European brands are good. Or you buy the largest 4K computer monitor that can afford.

I've got a few computers - my daily driver is Win10, there's a media player still on 8.1 (only accesses music streams and it's not spotify, it's URLs like https://das-edge15-live365-dal02.cdnstream.com/a98345), the main pihole machine runs vanilla Debian, the backup pihole on a Raspberry Pi also running Debian, and a couple of older laptops also running Debian.

So no, I don't plan to upgrade.

That's all well and good, what happens to your kids when they can't tick the Windows and MSOffice boxes on job applications?

I'm not having a go at you, I'll assume you've taught your kids how to approach the new and unknown in the IT fields, but if they have limited or zero experience with Microsoft products, they'll be at a disadvantage.

I've still got a windows XP computer that I fire up once in a while for the LOLs. it continues to remind me that support ended in 2014, but it keeps working.

I also have a Windows 8.1 tablet that continues to work, and receive Windows Defender updates.

They won't disable anything, stop spreading FUD, that's Microsoft's job.

Microsoft will sell it as a safety thing - your essential stuff is backed up to your Microsoft account, so in the event that your computer is compromised or damaged, you can wipe and start over with your important stuff restored from your Microsoft account.

Which is not a bad idea in itself, but the rest of the data harvesting and telemetry makes it yuck. I use pihole to block access to Microsoft telemetry servers.

What, as a delimiter? Even some FOSS software uses spaces.

Yes, that works, too.

You know, if you copied those three lines into a text file, then saved it as bypassnro.cmd, you'll have solved that problem.

I put this in another thread: It's not a big deal. They're removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:

@echo off

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

shutdown /r /t 0

You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.