Yeah, absolutely. Companies like Sony, Microsoft and especially Apple would rather pay huge monthly fines than opening up their platforms.

Windows has always* done this and so do many others. I very much doubt that the EU would fine Microsoft for it. Since when was extended support against EU regulation?

For example companies like redhat do the same thing for end of life software: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus

I’m not familiar with Suse but it looks like they pretty much do the same thing: https://www.suse.com/products/long-term-service-pack-support/.

Ubuntu too: https://ubuntu.com/security/esm

Of course IBM: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-security-extended-support

*I’m unsure if they have allowed regular consumers to buy extended support before, since consumers mostly don’t give a shit about updates. This is at least the first time you could get extended support through any other means than paying for it.

To be fair ChatGPT didn’t exist 12 years ago.

I mean is anything iOS really open source?

I haven’t received a single source.

Okay, can you provide a source for both claims?

Which western media?

You know…

Has anyone claimed that the protests were entirely peaceful? Of course some turn violent when you roll in with your army and riot police gun blazing.

And thanks for confirming that it wasn’t a tank.

There really are no excuses for the killing of dozens if not hundreds of civilians and protestors.

And the protests were entirely peaceful to begin with but of course China couldn’t let that continue.

The censorship of the event also speaks a great deal about who’s fault it is.

Who could’ve guessed that people turn violent when you start shooting them 😱

I don’t have a president.

Yes, of course you people like it but the rest of us for sure aren’t switching to worse instances.

No the post is about the Chinese massacre.

By all mean call out genocide but it’s not relevant in post.

Don’t try to dismiss criticism of one massacre and its continuous censorship by bringing up another massacre.

What? What that fuck are you talking about and how is it relevant to the tiananmen square massacre?

That video is really low res. Do you have any sources that prove that the moving object is a tank and that the people are students?

But honestly it doesn’t really matter because running over people because they are protesting a dictatorship is fucking gruesome.

How is the US doing “anti-Chinese propaganda”?

You should(n’t) see the gruesome pictures. China is likely very happy that the tank man picture became famous when there were LOADS of other horrible images .

Nah, you just select domain join. I did that a few weeks ago on a Win 11 enterprise install.

But if you deal with new installs “all the time” you should really consider automating the setup and domain joining, instead of manually creating local accounts and then domain joining.

That gutter (or whatever it’s called) is enormous!

Yeah probably.