Windows has always* done this and so do many others. I very much doubt that the EU would fine Microsoft for it. Since when was extended support against EU regulation?

For example companies like redhat do the same thing for end of life software: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus

I’m not familiar with Suse but it looks like they pretty much do the same thing: https://www.suse.com/products/long-term-service-pack-support/.

Ubuntu too: https://ubuntu.com/security/esm

Of course IBM: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-security-extended-support

*I’m unsure if they have allowed regular consumers to buy extended support before, since consumers mostly don’t give a shit about updates. This is at least the first time you could get extended support through any other means than paying for it.

And no ads I presume.

Understandable that they would block it.

Does grayjay rehost content from YouTube or are they using the YouTube backend for streaming video? I would be quite annoyed if anyone used my website as a host for content that’s being consumed on another website.

A few years ago (and to a lesser degree nowadays) you occasionally came across images which wouldn’t work if you “hotlinked” to them on another website. Images aren’t a huge deal anymore but video absolutely is.

That’s true but I wouldn’t really classify this as evil.

Serving videos isn’t easy or cheap. It’s hard and expensive.

I obviously use an adblocker everywhere and so should you.

But saying that Google or anyone else is doing anything wrong by blocking adblockers is ridiculous. When they finally succeed, I will just accept that I finally lost after many many years. My usage of YouTube will likely go down substantially as well. Crying about it after you have used their service for free for YEARS, really makes no sense.

Nah, you just select domain join. I did that a few weeks ago on a Win 11 enterprise install.

But if you deal with new installs “all the time” you should really consider automating the setup and domain joining, instead of manually creating local accounts and then domain joining.

Yeah probably.

No need to worry similar stuff will get developed for other platforms as well.

Did it use 45 GB extra or were there just 45 GB worth of changes?

And better and people got better at making 3d printed guns.

That depends on where you live. I could get 10 Gbit/s WAN if I wanted to pay the subscription for that but 500 Mbit/s is enough.

Also 10 Gbit/s is mainly useful for LAN. Like connecting to a NAS.

Read the article man

This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).

While I very much dislike that too, it’s very easy to opt out. Just use Windows Pro, Enterprise, or education.

Didn’t jailbreaking pretty much die because apple made it really hard?

Opening a few apps fills it up very quickly.

I even run Spotifyd and a cli UI for Spotify because I need to be conservative with my RAM.

The 8 GB in my ThinkPad is pretty annoying. It’s usable but not enjoyable.

No, 8 GB is nothing these days. It’s not an enjoyable experience on Win 10, 12, Linux, or MacOS.

Comparing apples to oranges are we?