If you weren't checking tech news regularly, shit like this just passes right over your head as a regular Linux user sometimes. I keep forgetting about the EoL thing.
Also having a clean frame of reference, if you have been a user for a long time now, you are definitely able to remember occasionally using a Windows machine and seeing the downhill slide literally happen before your eyes as everyone else is unaware of the growing pile of shit and getting slowly boiled like the frog in the pot.
The last version of Windows I'd consider clean of all this modern horseshit that's in those OSes now would be Windows 2000. Even XP started pushing the telemetry shit hard and started getting sketchy towards the end.
Yeah, I used to install those a couple years ago as a security tech.
Unless they are at the register, those screens don't even record back to a central DVR. Just a local SD card inside the screen itself. The only wire running to them is low voltage DC power, no video or network. Those things aren't really an issue in the grand scheme, they are less intrusive than a regular security camera since you can't even view them live at the head end.
Now the bigger ones hanging from a pole in the ceiling, yes those ARE being centrally recorded.
I see it as anybody too young to remember a world that wasn't connected 24/7, somebody who in their child/teen years that didn't make heavy use of the phone attached to the kitchen wall to contact friends. Someone who's never had to seriously use dialup Internet or an 8/16 bit computer.
Wow. I mean, if they are trying to stop the "gay agenda" from spreading, they just went about it in the most dipshit way possible. I think I'll watch it now.
If you aren't suffering hair loss, dying your hair is probably the greatest thing you can do to take at least 10 years off instantly if you're well into a graying head. Gets harder to maintain with short buzzed sections though, especially on the sides.
The makeup does a lot of heavy lifting. If you've ever seen zoomed in closeup shots of their faces, yeah, the age definitely shows.
Also, people that are still active and running around on a stage do still give off youthful vibes. I was shocked when I learned Trent Reznor of NIN is in his 60s now. He still performs like he did in his 20s. Gotta keep moving if you can, never stop. Once you stop moving is when you start dying.
There's an entire step between trying to figure it out yourself and resorting to an LLM which is probably likely to tell you to shove cheese into the USB ports. Regular web searching. Forum and social media posts. The distro's wiki itself or other such resources. You know, the stuff the AI originally sucked up, mashed together, mixed around, and spat back out.
Eventually the tankies calm down when they get a little older and just become libertarian socialists when they finally realize how fucked their hero regimes were and break through the bullshit.
If you weren't checking tech news regularly, shit like this just passes right over your head as a regular Linux user sometimes. I keep forgetting about the EoL thing.
Also having a clean frame of reference, if you have been a user for a long time now, you are definitely able to remember occasionally using a Windows machine and seeing the downhill slide literally happen before your eyes as everyone else is unaware of the growing pile of shit and getting slowly boiled like the frog in the pot.
The last version of Windows I'd consider clean of all this modern horseshit that's in those OSes now would be Windows 2000. Even XP started pushing the telemetry shit hard and started getting sketchy towards the end.