#lesigh

#lesigh #wednesday #notfriday #sobs

Alarmed by a billion PCs still using #Windows10, MS extends security support for another year til Oct 2027. I'm running an inherited PC which was a hot-shit gamer box in 2015. With SSDs it's a proper screamer, booting in about 12 sec. It's not Win11 compatible and I don't want win 11 if I can avoid it. I don't want to replace it and I def am not interested in Linux stuff as several of my #hamradio apps are not compatible with them. #lesigh

Slightly fedup with a friend always making stupid jokes about the fact @sadedoes@fedi.kcore.org and I are vegetarians. I have no idea why, he's a diehard meat eater, but I honestly don't care what he eats. This time round it was dat Viagra doesn't help with vegetarians. #leSigh Usually I just let it be and don't react, this time round I presented him with scientific evidence that his stupid remark wasn't wrong, it's that people who eat a healthy plant based diet are less likely to need it 😅 Usually he's very quick to quip, now nothing.

The sheer ignorance of some tech "journalists" INFURIATES me. Today the NYTimes featured on its homepage an article about how "The Netherlands blocked a U.S. company from buying a Dutch firm that handles its national ID system." 🔗​: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/solvinity-kyndryl-blocked-deal-us-europe-rift.html So far, so good. But the journalist behind the article wrote in the comments section: "More and more, countries in Europe want to disentangle themselves from American tech. What's less clear is what exactly they can replace it with." EXCUSE ME ADAM SATARIANO, THERE IS A GALAXY OF EXCELLENT FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT MANY EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS ARE ALREADY USING.... OR EVEN BUILDING AT THE MOMENT. Maybe I should have gone into journalism after all #lesigh #rants