Mine is fully backed up.

I can’t imagine any law that would preclude the status quo, as Microsoft doesn’t own a controlling stake in OpenAI anyway. It sounds like the FTC is picking its targets based on market cap only.

The FTC tried & failed. They’ll most likely fail here too. It’s tough for courts to rule against what the FTC sees as unfair competition when even the judges are likely Amazon Prime & Big 3 ecosystem subscribers.

what’s my best bet for a set & forget situation?

Deploy WingetUI and set it to automatically update everything as administrator. The nice thing about this solution is it scales to whatever 3rd party apps the user installs in the future.

It’s about as close as you’ll get to Debian’s venerable automatic-upgrades on Windows.

That’s classic British humor.

I use Termux + Tasker for this exact functionality. I can provide the scripts and setup to anyone who’s interested.

I used to subscribe to this blog. The takes were so bad I’d deliberately share the links the author was railing against.

To no one’s surprise.

Great news for folks in Jamaica where I’m from. Pretty common there.

Yeah I wasn’t referring to those.

to stop using it you have to de-register your phone number from iCloud.

Ah, TIL. I was wondering that. I’ll avoid it then.

LOL here we go again.

I’ve seen plenty of other mods and that’s just 1 person’s opinion.

I will say, though: Microsoft are not a content company and never have been. So gaming isn’t their core strength.

BTW: I own both an XSX and a PS5, so I don’t have an axe to grind.

Unfortunately no one cares about game devs.

Yeah I was wondering how they were pulling that off without registering the phone number or iCloud account with Apple. Thanks @[email protected] for the explanation.

In any case, this also shows that iMessage can be spoofed.

Hence why I’m leaving the Debian / Ubuntu based distros

Ubuntu non-LTS packages are pretty up to date.

I guess this explains Guyana’s Metal Shark orders.

Yep, Firefox Nightly is my daily driver. I use Edge Canary for sites that don’t work on Firefox, such as the Snapchat web client.

In many architectures in which certificates are used, a client with a valid certificate is a trusted client, so a certificate falling into the wrong hands is problematic.

Edge & Firefox exist.