You don’t have to upgrade to 11 for at least a year or longer. Register a free MS account for your win 10 and you get free patches for Win 10 for a year. Otherwise it’s $30.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/microsoft-is-giving-windows-10-users-free-security-updates-for-a-year-but-theres-a-catch/

Lora is typically 50k max (theoretical 256k). So less than dial up speed.

It is in no way a replacement technology for wifi.

What other hardware supports open source like Graphene?

We don’t know how big AMD is in Israel because they keep it secret.

Hey Downvoter, could you link the number of AMD employees in Israel? Because I searched and only found that “AMD doesn’t list employees by region in their public disclosures.”

Eisenhower had probably the worst foreign policy record because of the Dulles bros. Almost all the CIA government coups that happened occurred during Eisenhower and ended up in disasters decades later.

Eisenhower gets credit for building the Interstate Highway system despite not pouring any concrete.

Ok, rant time!!!

I worked for Vint Cerf back in the early 90’s. I became aware of the politics around it when Al Gore pushed for funding so the Internet could grow into something bigger than a University/Military communication system. Rush Limbaugh was on the radio daily railing against Al Gore’s Boondoggle. Clinton/Gore secured funding and the Internet exploded in use.

During the 1999 Presidential election, Republicans took Al Gore’s greatest political accomplishment, getting Congress to fund the creation of the Internet, and made it a joke.

Vint Cerf wrote this letter as a result:

https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt

You can’t expect me not to reinvent the wheel.

As we post on Lemmy, which is a reinvention of a reinvention of a reinvention of Usenet from 1979.

Some of Amd GPU work is in Israel.

Amd is already in Israel.

You don’t necessarily need tech to monopolize an industry. Amazon is warehouses with delivery service.

It would have to be a national mandate that is available in every city or everyone would use the free service from one city but not vote to raise the taxes in their city to pay for their own.

If it’s a national mandate, then might as well make it a national service.

yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence

Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills. Renters are usually two levels away from the actual owner. Then there are all the people who live and work in cities but aren’t official renters.

That quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons. The city residents pay for it but how do you verify “citizenship”?

IPO after becoming a monopoly has been a thing for a while. Amazon ran negative revenue for an extremely long time to run all competition out of business.

MacOS, NextOS, BeOS, OS/2 and Solaris were all pre installed on end user devices. All except MacOS also were or became available as end user installs if you didn’t want to buy it pre installed.

They weren’t popular in workplaces ( except MacOS) because they all sucked in important ways compared to Windows.

There were also many alternative Office suites. MS didn’t even invent the idea- they copied Borland’s $99 software cost in order to compete. But again the alternatives, even if they started better, eventually fell behind Microsoft. MS was extraordinarily customer focused in those days.

Windows Powertoy apps used to come with the emails of the person who wrote it in the readme.txt. I once emailed the Microsoft developer about a feature that I thought should work but didn’t ( copying across network vs local copy). I got a working beta version 3 days after emailing the developer at Microsoft.

Linux, MacOS, BeOs, NeXTOS, OS/2, FreeBSD, Solaris.

There were more choices than today.

They actually like the products, so the companies can slowly enshittify them and keep their users.

They’re just a few years behind Microsoft. At one time, people chose Microsoft just like people chose Google.

I think the same theory works for everything- including generic replies to comments on Lemmy.

You don’t use search? Like you don’t use duckduckgo or anything?