Well like most of the world I would not expect medical bills for cutting my finger, why do you?

Not sure, maybe ask Microsoft?

PC LOAD LETTER.

In most of the world? Yes.

I wish I was. Worst part is this is someone I have not talked to in a while then they ask me tips on how to use windows 11 out of the blue. I don’t use windows 11, I then had a bit of a crash out when this reasoning came out of me asking why.

My thought is that they must be doing this just to get under people’s skin, it is so aggressively stupid it has to be some sort of contrarian shit.

They also went and bought a TPM module… You know for privacy…

I can not fathom it, they are going from windows 7 to 11… same hardware.

Sold my (child’s) soul to the company store…

Last week I was told that someone I know was going to install windows 11 instead of Linux because they worry about privacy…

the OP picture is not bad civil engineering, it’s great civil engineering doing exactly its job in a bad society.

It is bad civil engineering as in it costs more, does less and looks silly. I am stating that we have the same issues here, and the sidewalks are not at all standardized. The solution is not some massive societal upheaval and rebuilding of all infrastructure, but to just don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The engineers in this case used more material, more complex forms, more design work to do a worse job. There is no more risk to the public unless you have some info I don’t. Hell whats the risk of having sidewalks vs not having them (as most american places I have seen just don’t have them at all)? What is so different in the us then Canada that a small strip of grass after the curb makes such a difference? This seems like more of that terrible american exceptionalism that bleeds over here.

Put the sidewalks in, don’t overthink it unless you have the budget. That is all I am saying.

You are saying that you should not have a sidewalk directly next to a street, due to the speed of the street. A uniquely anti sidewalk us-centric view, not saying you are against sidewalks but that you have bought the bad civil engineering at work there. I have not demonstrated to you anything about my knowledge of civil engineering, just that I disagree with yours.

This same argument has been tried here to not put in a sidewalk. Its weak and silly. Sure having a barrier is better but a having a sidewalk is leagues better then not having one or having the one pictured above.

I live in Canada, the sidewalk abutting the street is not an issue, and the only time I hear such antisidewalk nonsense is from americans (in MPH of course). That 30 cm of grass is not a meaningful barrier of any kind and the pole is not built to be a car barrier.

This is the us right? Many nations would struggle to fail at sidewalks this hard. Those are poured slabs, they could have connected them to the curb for less work and more space, enough to fit the sidewalk in the right place.

there’s two Windows 10 zero days that just came out which allow code to run with elevated permissions without user authorization.

That is my point, zero day vulnerabilities show that new does not mean better or more secure. They did not just “come out” they where there and likely used from the start. The issue is that people still put their faith in updates and software, even though its clearly a mess. You can do you, but until (like news on phishing scams) the outdated OS vulnerability becomes a common attack vector I will keep banging my drum on better understanding digital risks and keep running my old crap (partly just to see what happens mind you).

Yeah but people die in car crashes often, where are all the people getting their PC compromised by using an old OS? I have yet to read about even one incident, have never seen one since windows 95 era and even when asking for an example in the last 10 years got nothing.

All the OSs have vulnerablies, using one not getting updates is a risk, but not a very big one in this day and age.

All those threats are more likely from other attack vectors then an old OS. Your not an organization, your not a target in that way. The network you are on is not worth the type of attack you describe, and can be remade with little issue. This is just fear based sales bullshit, your more at risk from the low effort email phishing attacks.

But yes I agree mint is better in every way (its what all my work machines and laptop run at the moment).

Ha, yeah. Lets go over all this again. Nothing is secure and your windows vintage matters a lot less then your backup habits.

Retrospection gas kinda exists.

Its always funny reading these things on a windows 10 machine. And then when I go watch a show in my living room on my windows 7 machine (that still works better and steam works fine). I have the USB made to move these machines to Mint, but every time they say that its dead I need to push it another week.

Its weird that people buy into forced obsolescence so easily. Just back your shit up and use what ever, if your going to get your shit messed up its not going to be due to your OS. Your bank will be hacked, or more likely phished. Your card will get skimmed or your data leaked without you even knowing it. This is all a farce, nothing is stopping you from running an older OS, and most would be shocked at how many “important” machines are running on legacy tech.