it was at 50 percent in aug 2024’s survey… that last 15 percent to 65 took over a year to achieve.

the paid scam is 30usd for a year of extended updates.

(the first year only, i’m guessing… if they did it like win7, the price will ramp-up year 2 and again year 3).

They dropped 7, 8, and 8.1 at the same time, January 1st 2024

the actual ‘end of service’ dates for win7 (with the max 3 years esu) and 8/8.1 all occurred during the first half of 2023… so they gave a whole six months of extra life on those versions.

beginning??

have you been in a coma the last nine years?

if that’s all you need it to do: browser, kitra, libreoffice and not much else… any mainstream distribution will work.

fedora’s ‘atomic’ distributions tick your boxes. minimal terminal exposure, hard to break, and infrequent demands of user password.

silverblue (gnome) or kinoite (kde). kde is a traditional desktop experience, but gnome would be excellent for your rather basic set-up.

as if that’s all it took to lower prices. companies are gonna look at this as ‘free profit’ and keep them high, pocketing the ‘savings’ for as long as they can.

rotisserie chickens are bred for that purpose and their lives are cut short to meet the cost and weight targets of the largest customers (walmart, etc), which means the facilities can produce ‘more’ in the same amount of time than roasters. they cost $6-10 here and $5-6 on sale (higher $ is at the regional convenience store chain, lower is wm), and i can frequently find ‘old’ ones in the cooler at wm marked down to $2 (yea, just two bucks each).

roasters are larger, priced by weight, and usually cost more (per bird) than rotisserie chicken. here, they’re $10-12 at wm, $15 and up at the ‘local’ grocery store. they’re rarely on sale.

not shown: the small hose that ‘naturally’ refills the jacket.

tgt’s last quarterly loss (negative net income) was over a decade ago, and it was just one quarter.

that’s exactly the goal of the program.

there’s something like one grocery store per 1500 residents in new york (far more, per capita, than my entire county).

many residents have multiple options nearby, but some (around 750,000) do not live within 5 blocks of even just one. those are the neighborhoods this program would target.

these city-run stores are not intended to serve ‘everybody’, just those who aren’t served by anything.

focusing on food deserts, or areas with limited access to full-service supermarkets,

he isn’t out to take on the competition to ‘drive down’ prices, but rather to serve neighborhoods that have no stores…where you have to walk a half hour just to get a carton of milk and a loaf of bread.

the form itself is easy, it’s the bot detection and spam prevention that’s hard. on my own sites, i’ve given-in and use the highest-level recaptcha, a hidden form field triggered by bots but not humans, and a server-side script for the mailing that also has some spam detection routines. they still get through, but far less often than a naked form would.

if you’re satisfied with your existing comments function, can you simply enable comments on your ‘contact’ page and hide them from public view?

One. Two. Three. Four. Five?

That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage.

i’ve got one user who has refused to update their win7 system for a full decade–literally the entire lifecycle of win10. offered to set up a dual boot for her and she seemed to be receptive of that–even bought a nice big ssd drive for it, but she never used it and never upgraded. husband says that ssd is still in the damn box sitting on a shelf. i expect to hear from her when that now tired old hdd in her (i think) wolfdale-era win7 finally craps out.

Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.

yes. yes they are. we’ve taken in a lot more ‘junk’ systems over the last six months than we ever have.

many of those who aren’t tossing their pc on the heap are paying for the updates or jumping through the link-and-sync bullshit for them.

microsoft’s scare tactics work, and work very well.

yup. i have a bunch of users that won’t be happy. they only still have fb for messenger, use the messenger app, and never go to fb itself anymore.

have to have PiHoles and other DNS sinkholes for a basic protection, which is hard for regular people

mullvad’s free dns. free for all, not just their subscribers. encrypted doh or dot only. a basic ad and malware blocking dns sinkhole is a fairly simple configuration away if your os supports it (win11 and android do… those are what i’ve set it up on for others so far).

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

not a whole lot of takers here either, and not a single one yet due to win10’s “retirement”.

everyone wants windows. but after that, most are pretty receptive of other foss options like libreoffice.

just give 'em time. it’s still a bit early in the game for that play

iirc, they did do a limited regional test of subscription windows back sometime during win7.