Amazon has them for $5.40.

It’s quiet because the media don’t report on it.

Seems you were right. Their curiosity for data evaporated as soon as people gave them all the data they needed.

One X user suggested that the company switch to Windows XP—it’s also no longer updated, and it can run Windows 3.1 applications via compatibility mode.

Maybe that was a joke, but if anything that would reduce their security. Windows 3.1 and 95 are old enough that they can’t even run most stuff from the last two and a half decades, which probably protects them. XP is just new enough, and plenty old enough, to be very risky.

What do you think of the various studies showing that vaccination reduces the risk of long COVID?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/health/long-covid-vaccines.html

(Archive without paywall: https://archive.ph/20240718022942/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/health/long-covid-vaccines.html)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccination-dramatically-lowers-long-covid-risk/

Edit: and the one in the BMJ from 2023 that someone else linked.

Why?

That one turns out to have been largely Microsoft’s fault for repeatedly ignoring warnings of a severe vulnerability relating to Active Directory. Microsoft were warned about it, acknowledged it and ignored it for years until it got used in the Solar Winds hack.

Or he is just reflexively opposed to helping women who accuse rich and powerful men of abuse, even when it’s not directed at him.

it’s looking increasingly difficult for the Democrats. Biden’s not impressing people, the business with Israel is putting off some of his supporters, and they’ve left it very late to not have a Plan B. You’d think that any party running an 81-year-old candidate would have a fallback plan ready from the outset, or might anticipate difficulties and run a younger candidate in the first place, but apparently the Democratic Party doesn’t look that far ahead.

Laptop 2 only supports USB2 according to this page.