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I can guarantee this will be a hilarious shitstorm of false positives wasting IT departments' time, because their detection of it is massively flawed.

At least once a month my - completely stock, and un-rooted - phone tells me I can't use Outlook/Teams because of root. Every time, a reboot is required to resolve this. One one occasion, TWO reboots.

Ignoring whatever reason Microsoft think they're blocking this for, it's going to regularly block regular users, who are not going to stand for it.

And yet somehow despite the lack of horses (I mean I presume) this one manages to pack in 400% more horseshit.

Incredible how that works sometimes.

Well it's that or Beavis... which I like because it means that Butt-Head bat must be out there somewhere.

After the certification training my colleague referred to this as the "forklift snuff film".

Far Cry New Dawn has motorbikes with sidecars, but no straight motorbikes.

Both it, and Far Cry 5 that it is a sequel to also have quad bikes.

Potentially neither of these quite count, for the purpose you're asking the question?

Without having read the article, lemme guess... Electron.

Maybe now that no-one can afford RAM these companies might get motivated to do something about that. Hell, I'd accept them just feeling shamed into not being the worst memory hog on your system at this point, over any altruistic reason.

See also: Discord and Slack, two other colossal wastes of space that use an order of magnitude more RAM than a native app would while running slower and providing absolutely zero other benefits.

The Multipla justifiably gets a lot of hate, but it had great visibility, and seats six (three front seats rather than two).

It really is fugly though.

Back in those (pre-UEFI) days it was quite easy to add GRUB to the Windows boot manager instead.

You'd wind up with a menu entry that Windows would usually leave alone, unlike its aggressive reinstallation overwriting GRUB.

Once UEFI came along, it became easier to give each OS an entire disk with no connections between them, and use the BIOS as the boot menu.

Or, y'know, just give Windows the flick and only run Linux 😉

They're waiting for you Gordon... In the test chamber

It would be fun to test, there's still a big disc wallet buried somewhere in the (hot and occasionally humid) garage, undoubtedly including some of those 20 year old ones. Worst possible storage conditions for recordable media.

The larger issue however is there is no longer a single device in the house capable of reading one, and hasn't been for a number of years.

Also a significant fraction of them were Linux install media. Not in the modern nudge-nudge-wink-wink-we're-really-talking-piracy-here "Linux ISOs" sense, but actual Linux ISOs, which would be used a couple of times (maybe even only once) then discarded once superseded by a newer version.

It would be at least another couple of years after that period in history before I could afford a) sufficient hard drive space to not have to burn and delete things straight away after downloading them and b) flash drive(s) large enough to do away with optical media for that use case.

I used to hoof it at 16x on single-layer DVD+R discs back in the day (talking 20 years ago at this point), whole disc done in about 5 minutes. Never had an issue with those.

The phenomenon you're referring to is called "Zoned Constant Linear Velocity", for anyone looking for a new Wikipedia reading rabbit hole :)

Can't say I ever tried a dual-layer blank, can only imagine they're a bit more touchy about speeds and feeds.

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