This is exactly what they did with lockdown measures and mandates. Put something out, gauge public reaction, partially withdrawn, have others suggest it, retry and repeat until the public relent and it's fully implemented. Then do the same procedure on something else.
Adobe is behaving the same way too so they can have control of your data for financial gain.
There are vendors who will specifically pick parts that will work with Linux but I suspect they also charge a premium for that certainty.
My laptop currently works fully with Arch Linux but it didn't always. At first I had to use the beta NVidia drivers to play games and it took many months to get the sound working because the essential information needed to see the sound chip in the laptop was coded in the Windows driver and not the ACPI.
I did hear there was also a concern that Adobe could lock you out from your own work if you don't agree to their terms and conditions and it could also assert its right to claim royalty fees for content created with its software that makes money.
Even if you pay, you're the product.
I guess Microsoft has calculated that the cries of "I'll switch to Linux" will be a small percentage of their userbase, companies will still stick to Windows for desktop usage and that Mac OS will either implement a similar feature or will also have people not adopt it in large numbers.
My concern is that Governments are in bed with Microsoft (to the point that organisations are switching from Google Chrome to Microsoft Edge) and they will be rolling out this update on computers that have confidential personal data that could be easily compromised. We may switch to Linux but they most certainly won't.
The problem with retro gaming isn't the cost of the device, it's the cost of the games as they become rarer, get bought up by collectors and succumb to wear, tear and rot.
He'll probably get the attention from Nintendo alone for selling a Game Boy compatible device because they hate emulation (unless they're profiting from it) but also because Nintendo doesn't want a lucrative second hand market, they would prefer you play games on a Switch and it's successors while keeping them locked behind a paywall so they can generate revenue forever more.
I wish him well but I can foresee the big N paying attention to him with a cease and desist.
Is this the same eSafety Commissioner who has actively threatened to have X and Reddit banned from app stores and web browsers for hosting "adult" content and demands for their age and ID verification to be expanded to any website hosting content for adults (not just adult entertainment) akin to what the UK will do next year?
It's another article that wishes to push the agenda of vetting men on dating apps, something that should be implemented in the next year or two with the Online Safety Act (I can't see a future Labour Government u-turning on that) on the grounds of "protecting women's safety". Of course, who is deemed as "unsafe" won't just apply to those with criminal records but those who are deemed "creeps". Which is a socially acceptable way of saying "unattractive".
She then complains about how women have to become true crime detectives because the state and dating apps won't do the job for them. People like the author of this article would love for there to be a publicly accessible database that any woman can submit their own experiences, feelings and emotions about a man. Don't think it would fly with GDPR and data protection laws though. And then there is the issue for them that if they write anything libellous, they'll get sued.
“The real mystery is, is he seeing someone else?”
Men of high status are expected to commit but won't because they have lots of other options. Lower status men are invisible ("ghosts").
In the UK, attempting suicide (as in, taking a known chemical that can kill you) is a criminal offence. Every person who took the shots could be on the hook for prosecution if this pre-print is accurate in its findings, never mind the people who pushed it.
Eventually there will also be a push for US/state level internal networks and restrictions on Internet access "for your children's safety". The concept of splinternets seems to be growing traction and not just in authoritarian countries like North Korea, Iran and Cuba.
Governments consider the Internet (and ultimately what they truly want, a national/EU Intranet) to be a public place, including privately run websites and apps - no expectation of privacy and everything including your identity can be seen or heard by anyone else on request. As we've seen with age and ID verification, that is also a push toward implementing real world laws into cyber space. Things like public order law, sexual harassment law and the banning of causing offence.
The EU (and the UK) won't care if Signal leaves, if anything, that's what they want. Then they can curate their own internal network with their own services that they fully control just like China to "protect the children".
The Quartering already does that. The thing is, 99.9% of your audience uses YouTube and until audiences move with their eyes, YouTube will continue their dominance knowing that creators won't move and that any rhetoric is all bluster and no action. But it's like voting, you may change your vote but everyone around you will keep voting for the Uniparty.
You will not believe the absolute hatred the left has for Liz Truss. If Britain had its own equivalent of Trump Derangement Syndrome, it would be Truss Derangement Syndrome. Every week on the political discussion rounds, they would blame her for anything and everything.
It seems feminists also have Benjamin Derangement Syndrome too.
The ironic thing being is that Bungie has endangered the PC platform considering the very legality of the IBM compatibles market rests on the legality of reverse engineering. If that is reversed and Lenovo/IBM start suing, this could end up becoming the worst case of punching yourself in the face that we have seen.
A lot of the mainstream media would like to go back to a time before social media where consumers were not seen or heard outside of the letters to the editors page where they can curate what you see from the public.
A good proportion of the ban social media rhetoric is coming from the mainstream media who see social media as a threat.
I wonder if Elon is going to switch to Linux? At least there everything is modular and you can strip out any outside AI from your distribution. Some Linux and BSD distributions have a strict no AI policy if I recall correctly.