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@blackbird71 What started out as a nice, cool thing is now a Big Big headache. Continual upgrades for what reason...the bad guys?
I've been using computers since my first commadore 64 and I have never been hacked. If you want to run around to porn sites and other nonsense you'll get what you deserve. Stay on clean sites, know your sites but that isn't how people work is it. As always the few make it hard the the many.
@blackbird71 Yeah I get all of that but I also feel that the people using computers is also a problem. People don't take the risk management protocols to help stop the hacking. I'm 70 years old now and not as spry as I once was at new technology. I was the teacher and now my son rolls his eyes at some of my questions. I've become the student.
I'm looking into the future and thinking, how the heck will I keep up? I have probably 10 computers in the house with 6 being used and kept up to date. The remainder are the things ya fire up once in a while and say -- oh look it still runs.
Of the six being used, four are dual boot and one is win 11 only, the other is Win 7. Win 7 is my business computer with proprietary expensive software that I'm not about to spend $8,000 to upgrade. Errrr! The darn thing does what it is supposed to do, run my CRM, act as a fax/answering machine, keep my books and go online at times.
Not being able for that box to go online would not be a deal killer but would add one more layer of things that I need to do before finishing a task. If it comes down to it I have my other computers to use for browsing.
My other Big Errrrr is that I am a buyer, not a renter. Once the software engineers decided that the income stream is better if you make people rent, the end of reasonable priced software was over. I don't mind paying a small sum every X amount of years to update.
Its kind of like some car manufacturers are now requiring an annual subscription for your computer controlled heated seats to keep working. This is the old death by drip - drip - drip.
"Car Makers Plan to Require Monthly Subscriptions to Use Heated Seats, and Other 'Luxuries'"
@awkward For the past several years in the world of tech, I have not felt like a consumer but more like a prisoner. It is no longer "I will change when I want" it is now you will change or else.
I guess we could stop using computers but that isn't a realistic answer!
@blackbird71 Yeah I get all of that but I also feel that the people using computers is also a problem. People don't take the risk management protocols to help stop the hacking. I'm 70 years old now and not as spry as I once was at new technology. I was the teacher and now my son rolls his eyes at some of my questions. I've become the student.
I'm looking into the future and thinking, how the heck will I keep up? I have probably 10 computers in the house with 6 being used and kept up to date. The remainder are the things ya fire up once in a while and say -- oh look it still runs.
Of the six being used, four are dual boot and one is win 11 only, the other is Win 7. Win 7 is my business computer with proprietary expensive software that I'm not about to spend $8,000 to upgrade. Errrr! The darn thing does what it is supposed to do, run my CRM, act as a fax/answering machine, keep my books and go online at times.
Not being able for that box to go online would not be a deal killer but would add one more layer of things that I need to do before finishing a task. If it comes down to it I have my other computers to use for browsing.
My other Big Errrrr is that I am a buyer, not a renter. Once the software engineers decided that the income stream is better if you make people rent, the end of reasonable priced software was over. I don't mind paying a small sum every X amount of years to update.
Its kind of like some car manufacturers are now requiring an annual subscription for your computer controlled heated seats to keep working. This is the old death by drip - drip - drip.
"Car Makers Plan to Require Monthly Subscriptions to Use Heated Seats, and Other 'Luxuries'"
@blackbird71 What started out as a nice, cool thing is now a Big Big headache. Continual upgrades for what reason...the bad guys?
I've been using computers since my first commadore 64 and I have never been hacked. If you want to run around to porn sites and other nonsense you'll get what you deserve. Stay on clean sites, know your sites but that isn't how people work is it. As always the few make it hard the the many.
Not sure. Maybe in the first post I felt like writing in some odd verbose manner just to wax poetically?
I do hate giving up on Opera. I was talking to another computer blog guy and he suggested looking into the investors. Perhaps they are investors who I share a kindred spirit with for human rights, etc. If so - I could keep Opera. Hm?
@blackbird71 said in Chinese investments in Opera:
@urdrwho10 said in Chinese investments in Opera:
At least that's a logical reason, whether one agrees or not. Why not have simply said that in your earlier posts?
Here I'll make it easy for you.
I don't like Chinese politics.
I don't like how China has minimal pollution control
If you can't see how most other countries banned lead paint on toys but China allowed it - well the shame is on you
You ever watch what the wet markets do to cats & dogs? Animals that most humane countries don't eat.
I trust the Norwegians but I don't want to give Chinese investors one dime
If you are ok helping Chinese investors make money for a country that lacks freedom of expression, of religious freedoms, of sexual orientation, gender identity freedoms and there are more.
Major Chinese technology companies, including Huawei, iFlytek, and ZTE, all of which enjoy close relations with the government and contribute to the police’s mass surveillance efforts, tried to expand abroad in 2018. So therefore I won't be buying phones from certain companies.
So if you're cool with all their actions - fine --- make more money for the Chinese investors to take back to China. There are other browsers out there that don't have the same investors.
@leocg That is true. But now that I've found out, I made a decision.
Opera was on my computers but for a long time FF ESR & Vivaldi have been my main browsers. Hm? Who owns Vivaldi? In my area the purchase was not very widely known and I asked some other people. Nobody knew about the purchase.
Probably the one that snoops the least is FF and I'm not so sure about them either. Just not a fan of Chinese sending children's toys painted with lead paint, the drywall fiasco from years ago, so I am not very trusting. Then enter this pandemic from bats sold at a wet market. I looked at the wet market and live cats / dogs is disgusting. So I'll just do my part and not support such animal abuse.