The burgers at Burger King are almost inedible, please tell me that Wendy's is not actually worse than that.

You can't pause updates infinitely. The updates will restart and then force an install.

Microsoft has never had an opportunity to force people to upgrade, DOS didn't get updates. Up until Windows XP updates were something that for most people didn't happen outside of a service pack. Windows 7 had a surprise upgrade shoved out for it. Windows 10 is the first version of Windows that doesn't let you not upgrade. Someone in Microsoft will get the idea that they can just make people upgrade.

Windows 7 had an upgrade popup where the top right "x" button scheduled a midnight update, and no previous version of Windows had forced updates that you can't disable.

No, disable probably is the right word. They'll push a "remote kill" update and one day the Windows 10 machines just won't make it past the login screen.

I think it's more likely they're just sick of people whining about it. People have been whinging about ChatGPT for two months now, we get it.

I don't get the anger against paper. Do people think that there's someone going through their drawers and all the notebooks in them? If someone's in your house and reading all your notes you already have a much bigger problem than them getting into some random site.

I called something like this happening years ago. It was obvious that mandatory automatic updates on the operating system had only one endpoint. This will probably end with Microsoft declaring that the only secure OS is one that has a subscription to their Microsoft security suite and they can't in good conscience let your computer boot without one.

I don't get why you're being downvoted, you're spot on. Microsoft will make using local files and locally installed software progressively more frustrating in favor of cloud services. That's the plan, and TPM will become a DRM system that will be used to enforce that.

To be honest, it would be really cool to have something like a compiler that can understand your code well enough to generate optimized assembly instead of interpreted javascript.

Why do we want to help him learn how to conceal his crimes better?

Computers with Windows 7 and XP work perfectly fine without internet. Windows 11 now requires a Microsoft account just to install the OS.

I know you're being sarcastic, but I'm super ok with your horrific dystopian future.

DDR5 is 50GB/s, which is workable. But it's possible there'll be a way to apply this technology to get even better throughput on memory and processors as well.

EDIT: Here's a thought. Mosix, the software that allowed pooling processors from multiple separate computers together over a network always had the issue that the network was too slow to properly copy memory around fast enough. With this kind of transfer speed it's actually practical to stream memory from one machine for processing on another.