When are they going to walk back the deliberate deprecation of the vast majority of PCs that ran Windows 10 fine but do not meet the unnecessary and completely arbitrary hardware requirements imposed by Windows 11? I mean, the performance and AI and taskbar stuff also demonstrates bad judgement, but I really can't get past the Win11 thing.

No. literalAardvark's main statement, "[It] crashed in the Pacific," was incorrect. contingencies's comment corrected that.

Surely the GPDR does not prevent users from consenting to share their data with a public audience.

It doesn't, but the effect of gaining consent and being opt-in vastly reduced the data. Strava also made it (in 2019) so you'd need at least N samples for it to be visible rather than simply a single user.

Public sharing on Strava is opt-in for users outside of Europe, too. Yet many users choose to share publically.

> Strava also made it (in 2019) so you'd need at least N samples for it to be visible

Presumably you're talking about the Global Heatmap? This used to be updated only annually. Is it more real-time now?

> It’s like trying to find someone you see in a street view image from a maps provider.

Are we talking about Strava, or satellites? It's not obvious to me that exercise data is any more real time or easy to find than satellite tracking.

> It does make me wonder how a warplane stops a merchant vessel without blowing it up if the radio doesn’t work.

Shots across the bows are a pretty universal signal.

Oh. Duh, that’s a good point. The plane can shoot in Z-axes. Thanks.

The Indian Ocean is both larger and has significantly less traffic than the Mediterranean. And a 777 is about 16x faster than a carrier.

> And a 777 is about 16x faster than a carrier.

Surely that's missing a 0 or are carriers really that fast?

Aircraft carrier speed... 33 knots or about 35mph[1]

Boeing 777 speed 554mph[2]

So about 16x!

[1] http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-028.php

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777

Honestly pretty crazy, although that must be the max speed. The carrier was going about 10 mph in this case (per Strava).

They don't normally go that fast from what I understand. That is their top speed in reserve they can use for evasive maneuvers, they don't want to go faster than their support fleet or deal with the high maintenance running at threshold will cause.

It's like when you drive your car you're not normally redlining it since that will kill the engine if you do it all the time.

Commercial airliners are sub mach1. The Charles de Gaulle is reported to go at least 27 knots at top speed.

27*16=432, a 777 goes 510-520 knots.

So maybe more like 18-19x.

For the carriers it is at least as the true top speed is classified.

16x, 20x -- it's about the right order of magnitude.

Are you calling them stupid?

Personally I avoid riding at night entirely, and use at least a tail light during the day.

> Statistically that's a pretty sensible assumption.

Also, you know, protected opinion.

This isn't responsive to the article. Please avoid generic tangents.

I disagree, it was a response to the article's title. I could have said it better, but it wasn't just a random rant

Your gallons are a bit bigger than US gallons, but not 2x bigger.

Assuming US gallons, $8/US gallon works out as £1.60/litre. That sounds about right for current UK prices, depending on what and where you're buying it. (Yes, fuel is expensive here compared to the US; that's largely down to fuel duty and taxes.)