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Wow! What a great episode! Contrasting points - some vigorous debate, and some really good topics.
I personally disagree on whether Windows 11 is worse than Windows 10, but hey - that’s just personal opinion. I loved the debates on the 1st amendment, the TikTok sale, the H-1B visa stuff - all of it was some good honest debate, disagreement, and I feel like I know more for having listened to it.
Absolutely brilliant stuff!
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The one problem with the Windows 10 debate was @Leo saying Microsoft was selling hardware up to a couple of years ago that wouldn’t run Windows 11, as far as I know, all of their hardware, since Windows 11 was first announced, has been Windows 11 compatible and all Intel and AMD hardware that was current at the time of launch would run Windows 11…
Microsoft is not responsible if sleazy manufacturers and retailers are selling off old hardware at discount prices, heck we pass all our old devices onto refurbishers and all of it is not compatible with Windows 11, although I think they generally put Linux on the kit now or sell it to people who specifically request Windows 10.
I noticed a YouTube video at the weekend that was looking at cheap PCs sold on Temu, Wish or Alibaba, or a similar such platform. They were getting $200 laptops and, surprise, surprise, many of them came with Windows 10, because they were being sold with components that Intel and AMD stopped making nearly a decade ago! Some were even taking lower spec chips and overwriting the firmware, so that an old dual-core processor was identifying itself as a more modern 8 core processor, even though it only showed 2 cores in Task manager.
I am no fan of Microsoft, I use macOS and Linux most of the time, but in this case, everybody in the ecosystem has known for at least 6 years what the minimum requirements are and reputable manufacturers haven’t made non-compatible hardware since around 2020.
Retailers and the supply channel trying to get rid of old stock might have tried to con consumers into buying outdated hardware at “attractive” (at first sight) prices, but that is down to caveat emptor.
If I walk onto a car dealership and they are trying to push me to buy a “new” 2018 model that has been cluttering up the backlot for over half a decade, I am responsible for checking to see if it is a 2018 model and pointing that out, and taking the risk of no warranty and maybe more limited access to spares, plus the monocoque and perishables maybe wearing out already, but that is the risk I take. Or they listen to the salesman and let themselves be sold superfluous extras like rust protection, that is standard in most markets (I think Australia and the USA are notable exceptions?)
It is no different for computers, just most people don’t bother to inform themselves before buying.
I bought a 2014 Qashqai in 2017. It had been on the lot for nearly 3 years, but I saved a huge sum of money and the dealer replaced all the rubbers in the suspension and drivetrain under warranty, because they had become hard and squeaked when it rained. I got a good deal, but I knew what I was getting myself into.
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Not sure it’s irony, but listening to the panel complain about mainstream media not doing their job, and then have a journalist from a major magazine dismiss the President of the US, by proxy, forcing a comedian off the air with a quasi “Whadda about what happened to this poor conservative actress who compared herself to a Holocaust victim???” was laughably on-brand, if nothing else.
At least everyone else on the panel but Nicolas seemed to get the serious, upsetting implications of that incident.
LOL, between that and the tired “MSNBC and Fox are the same” trope, TWIT should consider a show called “This Week in False Balance”.
A huge part of the reason the US is in our “My First Dictatorship” era is because most Americans seem to be incapable of having a political position other than “Both sides are equally bad.”
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This is a true statement - I agree
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