European e-waste campaigners are calling on EU leadership to force tech vendors to provide 15 years of software updates, using Microsoft’s plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete — as a textbook case of avoidable e-waste.

Windows 10 has already had 10 years of support. ESU extends this one extra year. If you have hardware that cannot meet Windows 11’s requirements, there are other OSes available that will happily run on that hardware. Which is what brings us to the real issue.

Microsoft’s near monopoly on consumer grade PCs and Apple’s vendor lock in. This is the core issue.

Companies can do this because there are no regulations to stop them. We call on European Commissioner Jessika Roswall to introduce EU Ecodesign requirements for laptops, guaranteeing at least 15 years of software updates. No more devices designed to break or become obsolete before their time

Ten years is a very long time for support. If you need support past that length, you need a different OS. Apple does good to keep Macs made in the last five to seven years still able to run their newest OS. They are some of the worse offenders on this. But even with a different OS, there’s still a limit to how far you can take hardware. You could put the best optimized software on really old hardware and that won’t change that the underlying CPU is old.

The older hardware gets the harder it is to keep supporting it. Case in point, there reason you can’t get TLS 1.2 that pretty much every site now requires onto Windows 95 era machine is the underlying hardware cannot keep up with the required computational needs to support that encryption. And if you happened to install Windows 95 onto modern hardware, the number of changes to the OS to get access to the underlying hardware is pretty much an upgrade to Windows 7.

Ten year old machines are doing alright for the time being, but we have to move on. TLS 1.3 is here, has been here since 2018. The stricter requirements for security, require more advanced hardware.

And I just mention TLS as a single example of what we’re talking about here. Modern hardware advances and attackers and users get those at the same time. While software security schemes do ensure security long after the hardware has become dated, there’s a point where it won’t matter anymore what software you toss onto the machine. It’s just so out dated it doesn’t matter, no software is securing it. Now that’s usually a lot longer than ten years, but it’s not much longer.

You can take a very lightweight Linux distro and pop it onto a Pentium 3 machine. It will technically run. But you are lacking SSE2 and even if you recompiled to remove SSE2 optimizations and strictly held to 586 ISA, you’re not going to enjoy the performance on the machine. For even the most simple tasks like unpacking a 7-zip. You will fare very unwell to some attacker who has a modern Threadripper machine.

I love old machines but the rest of the world is moving forward. Yes, software could technically cover for more than ten years, but not much more. But it’s silly to think that a Athlon 64 (2003), the oldest CPU you can technically get working on Windows 10 because of the NX bit requirement, would be able to keep pace on today’s multi megabyte sized website. Hell even the X2 models that were the first to be “dual core” would have issues with how modern web browsers handle things because Athlon 64 X2’s model for multiple processors is vastly different than how modern CPUs do it. It wouldn’t take anything for someone to feed it a website that would bring the system to it’s knees.

The thing is 15 years a very long time in the world of technology that’s ever evolving. Software can only go so far. 15 years is absolutely you need a different OS if that’s your requirement territory. But when you start hitting 20 years, your going to see breakage no matter what software you throw at it. It might be very slight at the 20 year mark. but each year after that it’s going to become more pronounced.

Doubtful that the claims will prevail. However, the filing court in Orlando is one of the courts he has out there that are packed Trump judges. Out of the 12 that sit the bench, 6 are Trump appointments. That said, even with those six in his pocket, it won’t be enough to push through the claim in appeals, if it even gets that far. The Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is the same court that struck down plenty of Florida’s Online laws as violating the first amendment.

Even though they are mostly Trump appointments, the court even with them, has had a strong lean to tell the Government when it comes to speech to fuck off. Which also Cartwright which told University of Central Florida their anti-harassment policy went overboard and violated the first amendment.

Do they’ve demonstrated that there’s very little that rises outside of protected speech. Be it a Floridian law banning children online or students yelling slurs. It’s definitely a double edge sword, but I can’t see this court siding with Trump on this. Defamation for this court has to directly turn into absolute loss, so Trump would have the onus to bring receipts on how it harmed him, which I highly doubt.

But all of this is a great reason why the US Government needs to implement Federal anti-SLAPP protections.

Hyundai already announced a two to three month delay on this plant after this whole thing. They aren’t walking away, but this isn’t an event they are forgetting.

It won’t matter what President comes after this one, this whole thing is going to influence investment from South Korea for some time.

Yeah, seeing dude, and the memes he was putting on casings. I think this is very much a Fuentes boy. The second I heard the Hell Diver’s code on a bullet casing I was like, “Ah man it was one of those fucking 4chan rejects that killed him.”

Make sense why when Trump was asked today, “How you holding up?” He was like, “Have you seen my new ballroom to the White House?”

They giving Charlie Kirk the fucking Herman Cain treatment. Going to forget him like his name was Phil Valentine. Going to hang his family out to dry like a former mayor of New York City.

And then you had that fucking Governor of Utah saying:

For 33 hours I was praying that if this had to happen here, it wouldn’t be one of us.

Just FUCKING HELL. No chill, all racism. Damn. They going to have to forget about Charlie Kirk like they did all those people who died from COVID, like all those farmers who going bankrupt because of trade wars, like all those people who are like “He ain’t hurting the right people.”

I ain’t in the camp celebrating Kirk’s death. But the way Republicans are jumping ship from Charlie’s death is fucking hilarious. So now that we all know the mother fucker ain’t getting any deader, how about them fucking Epstein Files? How about all them Republican fuckers who voted to protect a pedo mother fucker?

Oh absolutely, it’s going to be a slam dunk W for Trump because the Supreme Court is just going to ignore everything Article I of the Constitution says.

Oh yeah, they’re going to side with him. “Only the President would know when an emergency happens.” Not the more obvious, “Congress cannot make a law that hands off Article I powers at the President’s whim.”

There’s literally zero spine left in the Supreme Court. Easy W for Trump here since the Supreme Court cares more about RVs than actually upholding the Constitution.

I don’t know Donny, maybe try getting them written into law like a normal President would try to do.

The whole emergency powers thing has got to get cut off. The ability for ANY President to declare an emergency and then just take away very clearly delegated to Congress powers has to end. It was dumb when these things were invented during the Cold War, they still remain dumb to this day.

Drug trafficking is a crime. It is not the commission of war. The fucking President just committed an unquestionable war crime and went on TV and bragged about it.

Oh look I’m only two away form BINGO.

The Internet was convinced otherwise.

No we weren’t. I’ve learned that there is no such thing as good news anymore.

This ruling is stayed pending an appeal to the SCOTUS until October 14th. Just in case anyone was wondering.

If it was me being taking away I would tell the person “take the knowledge, build clean energy on this planet! Trust me, that’s totally worth one person! Especially if that person is my lazy ass!”

Oh look, the thing everyone said the thing Musk and Swift were championing because of assignation coordinates for would happen is happening.

Who knew?! I fucking swear. I think the two of them should rally against regulations that prevent people from storing gasoline in their bedroom.

I wish hell was real. But even then, that’s likely too good for this shit stain.

Are the voters in the room with us now?

Satan: Holy shit, we’re going to need to make some renovations to match this guy’s punishment. Tell the daemons in Cocytus we need something between Antenora and Ptolomaea.

Web 3.0 should be known as “If you think this place is bad now, just wait till you see our new <quote>feature</quote>.”

It’s super sad how that site continues to degrade in quality.

amid an ongoing customer boycott over its scaling back of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives

I mean, I’m sure that played a role. Myself though, I’m just priced out. Target is price slightly above Walmart but with marginal quality improvement. At this point in the game, I’m either dirt cheap or serious investment and I just can’t be in-between.

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

They’re going to kill everyone there and take zero responsibility. Then someone is going to sue and us taxpayers will have to pay recompense. And zero people will be held accountable.