What you're less likely to get is the consumer level PC and Laptop systems, as you'll need one large company to set the standard and others to adhere to it. So you could feasibly compile a program for a certain level of RISCV chip and have it run on many vendors processors. As it is there's several companies trying to push ARM for some sort of high end consumer PCs/Laptops but they all require different OSes and the chips aren't equivalent, so you have to compile software separately for those different platforms.

Given how the other major provider behaves I have to assume that it's a cloud sync, not a backup, and that your photos will no longer be yours but instead stored on someone else's computer.

On Windows 10 the Weather application uses 2-4MB when not active, which climbs to around 490-550MB when active. On Windows 11 the Weather application doesn't appear to be running at all when not active and it climbs to about 540MB when active.

No where near the results presented in the article, however:

The amount of memory used could vary by region and provider used to get the weather data, so in my region it would only use half a gig, in the USA it could use a lot more.

Half a gig is still too much for a Weather application to use, even with all the images and animations that it has I would estimate it only needs to be half as big at most.

I'm puzzled by why Microsoft made this into a Web based application since they could have written something much more efficient with native code, it's not as if they needed to target multiple different operating systems, just Windows and now just a single version of it.

I enjoyed reading it but would burn this version of the book if I ever got a copy of an original print.

Like we know X but the colour of the fact is red, and we need some way to figure X out with a colour of green or blue.

The only other alternative available is SMS but that is being phased out (rightly so) for being insecure.

Personally I would not encrypt a whole disk, only the files I actually care about protecting.

They should also be given an option of storing the keys in the cloud service tied to an account. Most would still click yes, but the fact that law enforcement can ask for those keys without your consent is an issue.

Here is a question for you though, you probably have those backup codes for services stored securely somewhere, but does everyone you know?

I prefer to use non-encrypted drives so I have the option of popping out the disk and reading it from another system with ease, which also means that I can recover files from drives of otherwise dead systems just as easily. This is a trade off I'm willing to make over losing access to data.

I understand business uses for it, and for that they have an IT team to manage key backup and backups in general. Plus when you're using company equipment it is theirs, not yours.

They are also no longer covered by safe harbour provisions because it is them answering it, not some content they refer you to.

Even the fanciest self propelled artillery is getting destroyed by these little cheap buggers.