IT guy here, Microsoft has extensive remote management tools.

Lets look at Microsoft Intune

Intune/Autopilot - This is Microsoft’s device management portal, this allows IT admins to remotely manage Windows 10/11 computers, and includes the ability to remotely erase a computer. Autopilot is a way to assign computers to a company so that when you you boot the computer it will only allow the Windows installer to be logged on to using an account from the company that registered it.

It is even possible to set a bios password through Intune remotely.

Microsoft could easily trigger a wipe of any computer that is connected to their cloud, and then make sure it could only be logged on to by the person it is registered to.

They could also change the password/mfa settings, and lock the UEFI

Effectively locking you out of your computer.

This can all be done through existing Microsoft systems, and I expect that Microsoft either manage all private Windows 11 computers logged in with a Microsoft account in a special instance of Intune or a separate but similar system with similar capabillities.

Now, this means that Microsoft does have the tools to brick your computer for Windows use.

This is an utterly idiotic comment, I’ll break it down into bulletpoints to make it earier to understand.

1. The comment assumes that I didn’t read the article, this is semi-wrong, I skimmed it, and found nothing of what I wrote in the article.
2. The comment provides ZERO additional information, it is pure snark, and does nothing to inform me about what I missed.
3. The comment assumes that everyone else also reads the article, this is not the case.
4. The comment forgets the advantage of summarizing for others, if my points was found in the article, it is a good thing to summarize them in a more accessible way.

With these point in mind I believe you can make an effort to make a better comment next time.

Macrografx Designer 3.1:

https://winworldpc.com/product/micrografx-designer/31

If that is enough power, and you can run it without any internet access, then yes, it would probably adress point 1.

Yeah, I suspect you gotta do something similar to what McLaren did when the special mid 90s computer they used for the F1 got too hard to replace as they broke, they built a new computer interface that was compatible with modern computers and allowed them to interface with the car

Ok, so this concept is cool, but has a few problems…

1. Privacy, this is far too complex to run on the headphones themselves, so the system will need to connect to a server to do the heavy lifting, what happens to the data once it used? For legal purposes I suspect it will need to be saved, meaning that any thing recorded could be analyzed or monitored.
2. Trust, AI models have rules in place to make them act in specific ways, the owner of the AI system used could tweak it to change what spoken or how it is said, this could push political agendas in everyday conversations.
3. Reduced lingual skills, an AI like this would reduce the incentive to learn another language, reducing people’s international direct communications, increasing dependancy on the AI service, further reducing our lingual skills.

This is scary…

I set up a 32 bit Windows 7 VM so my dad could keep using his old drawing program that was built for Windows 3.11.

It was the last version of Windows to support 3.11 compabillity.

Works well.

That is impressive!

Yeah, if they stopped spending money on exclusivity, they could invest in store features.

Absolutely, competition is allways good for the consumer, even in this case.

Since EGS offers a worse experience, I will use Steam instead.

• Personal phone: iPhone 12 Mini
• Work phone: iPhone 15
• Personal computer: custom AMD 5600X, 32GB RAM, RTX3070.
• NAS project: so far only the case, Jonsbo N4
• Current camera: Lumix S5
• Old camera: Lumix GX80
• Current main lens: Lumix 24-105mm f/4 lens
• Old main lens: Lumix 14-140mm
• Work computer: HP Elitebook 840 G10
• Current keyboard: Ducky One 2 with Alohakb Trailblazer keycaps.
• Current computer speakers: Roth Audio Oli-RA1
• Current computer headphones: Philips Fidelio X2HR
• Current computer microphone: Röde Video Mic Go II
• Curent computer monitor Dell UltraSharp U2724D
• Current Flightsim controls: Honeycomb yoke and throttle quadrant as well as Slaw Device rudder pedals.
• Other devices: 2x Raspberry Pi 3B, 1x Radpberry Pi 3A

Ok so you are just trolling, got it.

Fact is, Nucular is extremely

Nuclear* FTFY

Nuclear is expensive

Yes, but our continued use of fossil fuels will be exponentially more expensive with regards to global warming.

Nuclear power is hard to control, dangerous

No, it is very safe and well known, Chornobyl, TMI and Fukashima are the major accidents in nuclear power, TMI was caused by a badly designed and missunderstood control system, Chornobyl was caused by a bad reactor design combined with a culture of secrecy, Fukashima was caused by a natural disaster combined with a bad location.

We have learned from this and modern nuclear power plants are safe to the point of being boring.

Nuclear power has no real waste solution

This is just plain wrong. Dealing with nuclear waste is simple and a solved problem.

You dig a deep hole, put the waste in protected caskets and backfill with clay, done.

As a Swede I am a huge proponent of Sweden/Finland/Norway building massive nuclear waste storage facilities and taking on the responsibility for taking care of the global nuclear waste, we have a stable bedrock, stable political systems, plenty of unused land and have experience building underground structures, a nuclear waste facility for global waste would also create jobs.

You claim that proponents of nuclear power just parrot influencers with no original thought or are invested in nuclear power.

The same could absolutely be said of the anti-nuclear supporters, you keep repeating the same old arguments with no original thought for your self, and what is worse is that plenty of the anti-nuclear propaganda is backed by oil/coal/gas companies.

I am not an idiot, I realize that the future of energy is with renewables, I have seen articles about how nations have had days where they are only using renewables to power themselves.

But I don’t believe we should be waiting to shut down fossil fuel plants until renewables are ready, I believe we need to design a drop in replacement for fossil fuel plants now, not tomorrow, not next year, not in a decade, now. And the only resonable way is nuclear power.

Nuclear power is not the power of the future, it is an interim solution as we transition to renewables, meaning we can stop using fossils much faster than else.

So, let’s imagine if the idiotic overreaction of the “Atomkraft, Nein danke” movement had failed, and we had built nuclear plants rather than coal, gas and oil, I absolutely believe we would have not seen as big of a rise in global temperatures in the last decades as we have seen, we would have better air and water, and it would just be better.

Imagine how much more efficient nuclear power would be if we didn’t let our nuclear nightmares take over and have us stop or severely restrict it…

IT guy here, what is the end goal you want to acchieve

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The largest carrier in Sweden, Telia, still don’t support RCS ):

None, but will probably get a lifetime memmbership on Nebula…

Same, I just go full random on my entire itunes library on my iphone through carplay.

It is a good mix of classic rock, punk, 80s/90s/00s pop, classical music, bitpop, and trance.

I have two favourite series, they are quite different, here is the first quote:

“HE IS SPINNING LIKE CRAZY!”