Tonight on CEP!

• Apprentice Palmer brings his uncanny technical sense of smell to help me thrash some articles. (He's the guy who's been manning the fort so I can go on the book tour!)
• We read several articles on the same topic: The Windows 10-11 End of Support, or what could be the greatest Cash Grab I've ever seen.
• People are under the impression that their computers are going to get viruses or cease to operate after an arbitrary date in October of 2025. Microsoft is encouraging them to buy new PCs.
• The requirements to upgrade your current PC to Windows 11 started out very arbitrary and excluded recent and powerful PCs. When PIRG stared them down, MS relented, but they didn't bother telling anyone about their relaxed requirements.
• As such, an estimated 240-400 MILLION PERFECTLY GOOD COMPUTERS are at risk of being thrown in the landfills.
• One article claims they'll all be recycled, yet another article reports that only around 22% of ewaste is recycled.
• In reality, you can keep using those machines for at least another 3-5 years. After that, we can bypass the requirements and upgrade your older PC to Win11 (and beat it up so it's usable) or liberate you from the Microsoft Circus with a product called Mint!
• "We deserve better than a world where nothing's designed to last."

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Tonight on CEP!

• A blast from Marc's past emerges to talk about his new bookS!
• Author Billy Swan discusses "Junior's Tale", his comfort story of self-discovery.
• He also published a book of group-activity short mysteries "Quick Cases for Clever Minds" that actually bring people TOGETHER!
• While he used AI to assist him in writing the short mysteries, he describes the painstaking care and "moral brakes" he applied, rather than just have it to spit something out and publish it.
• Was Riding the Short Bus any worse than riding the Long Bus?
• Finally, we discuss a really funny Ezra Dyer article that some people can relate to!

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Junior's Tale

https://www.amazon.com/Juniors-Tale-Familiar-Billy-Swan/dp/B0FDRD5BRX/

Quick Cases for Clever Minds

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGZ5YM97?binding=paperback

Tonight on CEP! Economist and IT bureaucrat James Coffin joins us for a one-hour special. We react to articles and expose some of the hypocrisy and outright madness going on in the realm of our government's environmental policies - LEARN how they incentivize tech companies to make garbage, by reimbursing them for recycling their own products!

• Reading an email from an Apple impostor
• Surprise-attack deprecation - how the industry randomly removes useful features your organization relies on.
• "I haven't seen any artificial intelligence that's intelligent."
• The vocabulary of IT: How the industry creates new terms willy-nilly, and people (and AI) are expected to keep up with it.
• WD was caught in a bait-and-switch, inserting slower chips in their products without notice
• The complex 14,000-mile supply chain scattered across the globe
• Linux is now usable on newer M-chip Apple computers: How that will lead to the liberation of many Apple computers, but also iPhones and iPads as well
• An exploit in Apple Pay, how Visa was right to avoid overreacting, and our discussion on how wireless payments in general are massive security hole!
• Canon being sued for making multi-function printers that refuse to scan whenever they're out of ink!
• CA's sequel to Cash for Clunkers - and the adverse effects that they didn't bother to consider, that will harm the poor and the environment
• "If you actually care about the environment, stop making laws and start actually doing something!"
• How CloseTheLoop.com helps curb the ewaste nonsense
• Discussing Aaron Clarey's video "Why are corporations even in business?" and how offshoring in the 1980s sparked the cheapening of products

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