Imagine a scenario where a bunch of these are used as a server and to power cycle all of them need to turned off.

I mean he’s legally obligated to, not really a choice. He can say screw it, but then he opens himself up to legal troubles.

I’ll be downvoted to hell for saying this. But in this event I think it’s better for you to upgrade to Win 11 or maybe even move to MacOS (mac mini is pretty cheap), though I don’t know if you’ll find your replacement apps.

I use Win for work (no choice there) and Ubuntu at home (just browse the net, and only browser applications).

It typically happens during updates. People have reported their grub screwing up. If you’re able I would honestly suggest separate drives

Exactly, Twitter still has over 200 million DAU. Thread has about 30 million, Bluesky has less. Mastodon is worse.

Things like my city’s metro communication is still on Twitter. People aren’t going leave anytime soon.

One of my Indian friends said she felt invisible when visiting France. Apparently being stared at just for being a woman is common in India.

In France you can have it delivered to a post office. To pick it up you’ll need to show a state id card as proof.

You clearly haven’t talked to Asians about how strict their parents can be. I’ve heard of guys getting their asses whopped for slacking off in studies. The same applies to some black parents too.

People in EU use mostly WhatsApp and Messenger, cuz most people don’t have iPhones

Can they do the same for Google recommending Chrome?

Unpopular opinion: Win 11 works well for me, and is visually better than Win 10. Although it’s a fairly recent PC. Although if they keep pushing more telemetry and ads, I’m moving over to Ubuntu.

If they can’t hold on to these, they should just return them.

Even if they could hold on, they should return them, but clearly aren’t willing to.

Kind of missing the point. The current embargo means Russia sells its oil for a lot cheaper to India, which then refines and resells it to the west. This allows for enough oil supply to not push prices too high for everyone and Russia is the only one losing. Sure India doesn’t enforce sanctions, but they aren’t exactly cozying up like the Chinese.

Currently the real estate market seems to be on very shaky grounds as developers have debts that they’re not being able to pay off. So bonds whose coupons are due are not being paid.

Chinese citizens generally pay up front a certain amount (or fully) long before they move into their apartments. This money is generally used to complete construction. But developers seem to have used this to buy other properties for construction, over leveraging themselves. And now that construction is wayyy behind schedule and the people still can’t move in, they’re refusing to pay their mortgages causing banks to pull back lending and become more strict with debt restructuring for developers.

Tldr: Way too many homes built for people who don’t want them. Lots of loans might be unpaid. Might affect other sectors.

Anyone else feel two massive countries (Russia and China) are lurching from serious crisis to crisis (war, economic slowdown) and just feels like the “I’m in Danger” meme?

Steve forgot to wear his pants

At what point will the govt or whatever’s left of it fight back against the cartels?

We’ve gone from rich asses paying for criminals to kill themselves to us seeing billionaires punch each other. Not bad…

China is doing a Speedrun in destroying their reputation. Began with COVID, then market confidence, now this (of course this isn’t the first instance).