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I usually just pay fair price for the person I wanna bang. $1.25, plus tax of course..

As true as that may be, what's the deal with all the times I've read stories of people setting up and configuring everything the way they want, and then after installing whatever particular updates manually, then MS reverts a bunch of settings back the way they want?

I dunno, but when I got my HP laptop that shipped with Windows 10, I got to an initial setup screen that asked me something like what's my mother's middle name or maiden name or something like that, for sake of password recovery I believe.

Even though I'm sure I could have entered in any random nonsense that I'd remember, I was like what effing business is it of the OS to ask such private details?

I didn't even finish the setup and first boot, I shut it down right then and formatted and installer Linux Mint MATE 20, and I couldn't be happier.

Isn't it just wonderful how M$ can just screw you without your consent? To hell with Windows!

Welcome fellow penguin 🐧

We rode out Katrina near the Mississippi Gulf Coast back in 2005, in a run down trailer made in 1979. We didn't board up the windows, matter of fact we did exactly the opposite.

We opened all the windows and doors, to allow the air pressure changes easier to try to equalize. We sat in the living room, no power, just a battery powered radio, watching the walls 'breathe', if you will..

Scary shit yo, but our beater trailer survived. About 45 minutes after the strong winds started to settle down, suddenly the water level raised about a foot and a half, only a couple inches from coming in our front door. Luckily we were on high enough ground that we didn't get water in the trailer. Luckily.

We were two weeks without power, but at least my dad was smart enough to be prepared with a 400 gallon tank of chlorinated ground water. People though he was crazy for having that much treated water prepared, until Katrina hit, then he was sharing the water with all the neighbors.

TL;DR - Stay safe out there, and prepare early.

Thank you for sharing an update on this storm. There are a couple of tropical weather communities in the fediverse, but they don't seem to get much attention..

The ENIAC, one of the original 'programmable' general purpose digital computers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

https://books.google.com/books/about/ENIAC_the_Triumphs_and_Tragedies_of_the.html?id=l2nGQgAACAAJ

This was a significant era of computing history, and in the modern digital era, I think everyone should at least get a sense of the early days of digital technology.

And people living on ventilators and suffering dementia or paralysis or other debilitating ailments is hardly anything worth calling any sort of quality of life. I'm 42 right now, and at the rate things are going, both with my own health plus the rate people are ruining the planet, I kinda hope I croak by age 60 or so.

The human body isn't meant to last forever, and if they ever think they gotta put me on a machine for any length of time, I'm gonna be like fuck that, time to check out.

I do not have an answer for you, but if I may ask...

Why?

It's definitely not a top notch phone, so don't expect it to be a powerhouse of a gaming phone or whatever, but it's actually a pretty decent phone to be fair.

It doesn't have many sensors, only the accelerometer, light, proximity, and significant motion sensors, so don't expect it to work with RFID or NFC devices either. No compass sensor either ☹️

But where it lacks in power and features, it makes up for in an amazing battery life, plus even the stock Android ain't too damn bad. 👍

I wasn't suggesting that I'd expect newer DirectX to work on older versions of Windows. I was suggesting that I would have expected newer DirectX standards to still be backwards compatible with older DirectX standards.

Sigh, I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility. Oh well, I switched to Linux after Windows 8 came out anyways. 🤷‍♂️

Guess not, but as far as I ever knew, M$ has been known to try to maintain backwards compatibility for longer than most users would even consider necessary.

XP supported DirectX 7/8/9

I would have figured that would have continued on with future versions of Windows, but I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility.

Oh well, all the more reason I switched to Linux as my main daily runner after Windows 8 came out. 🤷‍♂️

Why would someone expect DirectX12 to not also support 11/10/9/8/7?