dysamoria

“Apple is worse than Google...”

[rolls eyes all the way across floor]

charlesn said:

The conclusions of this report seem suspect to me. First of all: the most widely quoted "average lifespan" for a hard disk is 3-5 years. Which puts ALL Time Machine hard drives either within or exceeding this range already. [...]

3-5 years??? That sounds ridiculous! I’ve had drive failures, but not THAT many or THAT often! I’ve usually had drives function for decades. 

missiongrey said:

[...]I’m waiting for the day that the keyboard is removed and it’s a full touch interface.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Why would a router name ever be handled as anything other than a plain text string? Why is it even possible for that string to be read as some kind of format/type specifier?

Databases usually have “illegal” characters stripped, and it has, in my past experience, been extremely irritating to see which characters certain databases dislike (inconsistently), because of how it limits the human usage of said databases. There are still systems on the internet that refuse to accept modern password strength requirements (government and corporate), forcing a maximum of 8 characters for password and/or user ID. What outdated software are they running??

We generally find protection against storing illegal characters, such as in file & volume name dialogs. That same process isn’t used to limit WiFi IDs? Is there not a formalized definition for a WiFi ID’s allowable characters?

Why, in modern computing, is it still possible to break things via “unexpected” characters?

mr lizard said:

dysamoria said:

mr lizard said:

rob53 said:

Limited article. Parallels can’t do anything with Windows 11 until Microsoft releases an ARM version. Apple moving away from Intel so VMWare seems to not care about non-Intel related virtualization. Parallels is trying but can’t make Microsoft do anything. Running Unix/Linux under virtualization on an M-series Mac might not have enough customers to keep Parallels in business long term. 

Um... Windows 10 has had an ARM version for a while now [...]

Not available to end users, though, is what I keep reading here on this forum.

Hence the part of my comment that you cut off in your quote: "The only question is one of licensing"

My bad on shortening that quote; you’re right that it was relevant.

However, what I was trying to get at is that a version of the OS not being available to end users makes for a poor argument for something existing “for a while now” as argument that it will be available to us later.

Microsoft has had Windows on several architectures (in the past), and the only one available to end users has been Intel. Developer previews & whatnot have not resulted in any usability. Microsoft hasn’t been interested in it, for whatever reasons, and so they are virtually useless versions. Curiosities at best.