It does, but this appears to have a lot more granularity. You don't always want to block an entire app, sometimes you just want to block some of the notifications from a specific app.

Yeah none of these Pi projects to make a desktop or a laptop ever make sense because they cost more and perform less than similar products that are actually available.

>Now Microsoft is putting the horse before the cart and attempting to force brand recognition before the product has earned it. And that just leads to resentment.

I'm surprised that they haven't changed the boot screen to say "Windows 11: Copilot Edition".

My job is like that, although it's mostly driven by my direct boss and not the whole company, but our yearly review depends on reaching out to our vendors and seeing if an AI solution is available for their products and then doing whatever is necessary to implement it. Most of the software packages we support don't have anything where AI would improve things, but somehow we're supposed to convince the vendor that we want and need that.

Ask someone starting to get a little older myself, I'm pretty sure these articles are just copium no matter how much I want to believe them.

It's like how the suit stores try to tell us that every year is the year of the suit. Wanting something to be true doesn't make it happen.

Every HN post the mentions Wolfram eventually just turns into a hate on Wolfram session. I don't really get it.

>C is not harder, you just have to implement modern language features by hand

That's definitely harder.

>imo, the 'grandparent' type user should really be on an ipad or chromebook etc. (unless they have some specific software needs).

There is always some app that every 'grandparent' type needs that only works on Windows.

Really? I'm pretty sure all the GreetingCardPro-type stuff is available on iPads, and its a better device for banking/investment stuff (because GreetingCardPro can't fuck with it). I was thinking more like QuickBooks or a custom business app.

Have you ever actually tried to support a grandparent type? It's always easy when you've never done it.

As I said in another post, yes. I also don't fix ppls computers "for fun".

You seem to think grandparents too cognitively declined to use windows safely can be taught to use Chromebooks and IPADs instead.

What you are missing is it isn't always easy to teach a new operating system to someone with cognitive decline.

(And if we are picturing a grandparent without cognitive decline your suggestions makes even less sense.)

Big Assumptions on your part. Do you think 'grandparents' also don't use iphones and androids? If anything more people are more familiar with this interface than Windows/Mac WIMP.

Anyway, their Windows laptop got all sorts of shit "side-loaded" (and I have a benign theory about this happened), and put them on iPad like 15 years ago. You can object to the closed system, but zero tech support calls for me.

>At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the latter.

That's your personal decision though, you don't need a flagship android phone to have the latest versions of android. I pretty much never spend more than $100-150 for android phones and they always support all the normal MFA apps.

Fair, I could just buy a new Android phone, but at the time every non-flagship appeared to stop updates every two years, and being on an upgrade treadmill on that time scale did not seem like a fair use of my money. I have no idea if this continues to be the situation or if Android manufacturers have gotten better with their update cycles.

Pixel A series (from Pixel 8A) is a non-flagship that will receive 7 years of updates. I bought 1 last year around less than $300.

That's fair assessment (and it pissed me off myself), but thankfully it's much better now with Android.

I mean, I still wouldn't trust Sony even if it give a blood oath (they used to abandon flagships after 16-18 month form release!), but there are also more reputable vendors.

It also should be on your employer to provide a compatible device (especially when it's your personal device that's not secure enough for the business)

>but what MFA doesn’t work on android?

They all work fine, you just have to be on a relatively current version of android, and that's dictated by which versions the apps enable support for and not anything inherent to android in general. The idea that MFA apps don't work for half of phone owners is silly.