When I saw the photo that accompanied today’s Tim Cook news, I immediately experienced déjà vu, that feeling of having already experienced the present situation.

Please forgive this rant, but I just encountered multiple problems when trying to install an OS on the oldest PC in my stable, a ThinkPad T420. It had Xubuntu 24.04 on it. Ran well (upgraded to an SSD and 12 GB of RAM years ago) and I should have left it alone….but the alleged security…

https://www.neowin.net/news/alleged-intel-zen-5-killer-nova-lake-specs-suggest-amds-hardest-battle-could-be-coming-up/ It remains to be seen how this will translate into real-world benchmarks, but I am very pleased to see these two companies aggressively pushing CPU development again.

Tuta Drive is entering its closed beta phase! Maybe you need to change the language to english at the bottom auf the page https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-drive-in-beta-launch

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-warns-of-reboot-loops-affecting-some-domain-controllers/ It’s funny to see people react as if this is a “recent” problem, or that it hasn’t been “since Windows NT SP2”, when even cursory searching will show that practically every update contains a serious problem like this, and has done so for many years running. THIS is why admins wait to deploy updates.

Today I want to tell the community about the steps I’ve taken as an individual customer to become less dependent on large tech companies. Windows: I only log into Windows using a local user account. OneDrive is blocked in Group Policy and uninstalled. The same goes for the Windows Store. I currently only have one…