BearOfaTime

I think that anything with such narrow operating parameter is always limited. Just the way things work. Take rockets - ones to put humans in orbit are very different than say sounding rockets, or other sub-orbitals, or even ones for satellites (and those vary based on LEO or GeoSynch).

Soviet Union used ground effects planes as naval vessels with missiles (Ekranoplan), which I guess the tradeoffs made sense.

Get LTSC and run the MS scripts to permanently license it.

I'll drop links in a bit - on phone atm.

Small business that can't afford dedicated IT usually outsource to a consultant or MSP, who damn well better sell them on Pro.

If you can't afford proper licensing as a business, I doubt you're gonna make it

I have friends in the SMB consulting space - ALL of their clients run Pro, with at least one DC. Their smallest clients are 2-3 person environments.

A business needs a lot more than a workstation or two - backup, security (IDS/IPS/firewall/spam filtering), email (pretty much all hosted these days). You're not doing this without pro licensing. You can't even use Group Policy on home.

These issues truly only affect home users - specifically the non-technical. And that's such a small set of people it's almost doesn't matter to MS, which is why they're pushing this crap there.

No shit?

I'm fairly sure every teacher, ever, could tell you this.

Working in a couple technical fields over the years, there's the people who do things by rote, and those that figure things out.

Neat to see a research basis though.

Hahahaha, sorry I don't normally stoop to insulting people for their looks - there's only so much we can do with what we're given (and being I'm no looker, it'd be a bit hypocritical), but holy fuck shut up you ugly cow.

And by ugly, we can tell by your "demands" you have one black soul.

A smart person would laugh, acknowledge it's an unflattering image, thereby "taking the piss out" of it.

This is something most of us learn when we're like 5 years old.

Fucking coddled twat.

(Again, I apologize to everyone here for the crude insults, but someone like this, well, fuck 'em. Fucking billionaire could invest $500 mil in a safe product, and use the annual returns to subsidize, I don't know, schools, or something useful, and never even notice it missing.)

Oh, and Streisand.

If you need a lawyer, get a bastard. Lesson from my father. He was correct.

Plateau and mesa are differentiated by scope. Plateau covers a very large area, mesa is like a cut-off mountain (it's localised)

And you're a teen, body chemistry driving you pretty fucking crazy

Nothing new to see here, I've seen them repeatedly at every company since the early 90's.

Also, of course top talent refuses, they have the most options...

Wow.

Makin me feel old

MakeMKV and Handbrake are godsends.

MakeMKV hasn't failed to rip a DVD to MKV for me yet. I have hundreds of videos from DVDs.

Most I convert to MP4 using Handbrake to save space and for compatibility.

As for playing, look into running something like a NUC (small PC about 2x the size of Apple TV), with Kodi on it. It can play your entire library either stored on it or on a NAS or practically from any storage on your network, and connect to your TV via HDMI. It's effectively a local streaming box.

I sometimes do if I want to own it forever, since streaming services love to take stuff away.

I'm down to one streaming service, and I'm rebuilding my media inventory. Soon IL be streaming to friends and family, who will be able to sync anything they want.