Laurel Raven

Thanks, I’ll check that out!

I wasn’t asking about a Linux client for Teams, I was asking about an open source alternative to Teams

Are there some open source Teams alternatives you’d recommend?

Yes, the reason they aren’t is they want people to buy new phones, not fix and upgrade their current ones. This is not hard to figure out.

Maybe the sand is the opposite of a non-newtonian fluid, is solid at rest but becomes basically fluid with vibration

Though I imagine sand would naturally behave this way if it isn’t packed too densely

Well of course, that makes perfect sense to me! What would we do if the ISPs ran out of bits? Can’t just use them anywhere you know, those suckers aren’t cheap!

I think it does, but only blocks competing advertisers

(Note: I actually have no clue if they do and I’m talking out my ass; that said, I would absolutely not be surprised one bit if they did exactly that)

Such an underrated movie

Python exists but I personally like PowerShell more. I’m not crazy about it being Microsoft owned, but it’s at least open source at this point, for whatever that’s worth.

I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL

PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I’ve been worried for a bit the direction they’re going with that… Everything they’re doing now is Azure and they’re pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used

Just pointing out, Plex and *arr work on Linux too…

I work with a guy who has a couple home servers, runs an AD domain and Exchange server on them among other things, all Windows. He doesn’t touch Linux.

Might be the exception, but at the very least they do exist.

Don’t you mean 13 years and 3 months? At least, that’s when the UNIX Epoch ends…

I dunno, I’ve got a laptop who’s CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it…

This is the first time they’ve intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.

Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.

Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it’s blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.

Or I could switch to Linux…

OH WAIT, I already did that, darn. Such a shame I can’t ditch Windows twice.

I’m not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there

Thanks! I’ve not been having many problems, but if it’s causing a performance loss it would be good to take care of it, I’ll check that out

This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal

Not just any corporation, but one that’s done this exact kind of thing themselves

There is no good guy here