lol Another Reddit user, with nothing to offer but projection. Being in the game 20+ years, matey. If theres problems, I have skills to solve them. Just because you dont know your arse from your elbow, doesnt mean everyone else is the same. Go cry about MS's spyware some place else.

Thank god Ive got control of those too, huh? I offered you all a nice little short cut to make your lives a little easier. And instead, you all moan. Jesus christ.

Being happy for someone switching to mac and being on lemmy where everyone is on the Linux train, was not on my bingo card.

How does Apple's profitability being a little less than it used to be (they're still insanely profitable) imply that it's a "sinking ship"?

I'm a Linux user as well, but use macOS at work and it's fine.

So you're saying Linux killed your wife's grandparents.

Did you watch the video or are you guessing based on the thumbnail? Because the video isn't about Apples profitability.

The 24H2 update would not install on a brand new prebuilt PC that I bought for my parents. I contacted both the manufacturer and Microsoft and spent too many hours troubleshooting before I gave up and returned it to where I bought it as defective. Back to the drawing board for a replacement PC for my parents.

I watched the first minute or so, which was about their stock price relative to Microsoft. Profitability is a huge part of a company's stock price.

I didn't watch the rest because I'm not going to watch a 30 min video without a good reason to.

Thanks I guess? Surely Mac and Linux users can be friends or at least allies against Windows. Linux comes from UNIX which macOS is based on so they’re very similar, only one is FOSS — which I suppose is the point — and the other is not. But another commonality — Macs and PCs can both run Linux.

Unix unity. Linux Mac BSD

Doctors try to save everyone, even the 0.01%. Hell, the 0.01% are actually a huge focu**s.

BULLSHIT

I use arch btw

Agile has been a mistake for the software industry. It did nothing except to give executive more avenue to force changes to the software that are being developed and in the end it'll take a longer time to have production ready software when compared to traditional waterfall approach.

where is the user error? is this user error with us in the room?

The crowd exhales we know

Thanks for letting me know! You're not going to believe this, but I, too, use Arch.

Then I guess they don't exist.

So it's working as planned?

Fully overwriting an SSD is so archaic.

Example from hdparm:

--trim-sector-range
For Solid State Drives (SSDs). EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!! Tells the drive firmware to discard unneeded data sectors, destroying any data that may have been present within them. This makes those sectors available for immediate use by the firmware's garbage collection mechanism, to improve scheduling for wear-leveling of the flash media. This option expects one or more sector range pairs immediately after the option: an LBA starting address, a colon, and a sector count (max 65535), with no intervening spaces. EXCEPTIONALLY DANGER‐ OUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!!

I think the all caps warnings say it all.
This is only for the trim sectors of the disk but I can't imagine it being much different overwriting a whole disk.
Not to mention, as OP said, an old and very used disk.
Quick formatting should be enough to prevent any normal user from extracting meaningful data from the flash storage as only the controller knows how to piece together the flash cells to a file.
If the controller forgets it, the files are toast anyway.
At best write some random data to a quarter of the disk or something lile that.

File recovery may only be possible if you give it to a drive recovery facility. But remember: Those ain't exactly cheap.
A client paid some 4 figure price because an HDD died. Just for a small amount of files.

literally everything you said is wrong but good try I guess. Only 20+ years? Amateur.

You’re the one crying about their “spyware”, not me. How do you not see that?