Palacegalleryratio [he/him, any]

iirc the no windows 9 thing was actually because a lot of software ran a compatibility check like:

if windows version = “windows 9*” then open legacy mode

This worked for software written for newer windows like xp but still allowing a legacy mode on older windows versions like 95 and 98. Problem was this also put that same software running on windows 9 into legacy mode. So they called it windows 10 to sidestep the compatibility issues.

You know what, this is on us. Chat GPT is just a prediction engine that tries to say what words it thinks follow a preceding prompt, and it’s looked at millions of examples (written by us) and it’s seen hapless clients and users complain about bugs and be told: “user error, works fine” so often chatGPT just thinks it’s just the culturally accepted polite response to a bug report, in the same way as responding to “thank you” with “you’re welcome”. This is a dark mirror on our profession.

1. Because your phone is a landline.

To be honest I thought it was a dead project

Is this really better than proper Linux in any way? Other than native play store, which means you can run shitty phone apps stretched fullscreen. Not sure I see the benefit.

Only when it pulls out “works fine on my machine, must be user error”

Truly the UK is the worst nation.

• A Brit

I’m running a 3 year old flagship phone (As it happens an iPhone). It’s still blazing fast, still has great cameras, still got the latest os and the battery health is still in the high-80s percentage range which is plenty for a days use. I don’t see any compelling reason at all to change my phone (more compelling is a £60 battery replacement when the battery does start to fail to win another years life) and I bet many others like me are in the same boat.