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Ah yes, love me some of that good old Catholic tolerance. Where’s the small pox blankets?

I do not know of any Catholics engaging in that, vs. a certain class of early colonialists seeking to subdue Native Americans.

However, medieval Rome did require her secular authorities, whatever office they may hold, to the best of their ability exterminate in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all heretics pointed out by the Church. Or RC subjects were absolved from obeying them. - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.asp Which type of warfare early Prots had to unlearn.

A group of 150 from the Great Commission Baptist Church in Mexico's Hidalgo State was displaced on April 26 from their homes in the villages of Coamila and Rancho Nuevo after refusing to participate in Catholic festivals in the cities. The villages are predominantly indigenous Nahuati-speaking communities.

Which suppression is likely a dream of many FR TradCaths, or least many mods of the now deceased "Catholic Answers forum. But of-course, colonialists in the US overall opposed Catholic settlement here, which was warranted in the light of RC history and its means of suppression, and claimed right of "coercive jurisdiction."

Meanwhile, in the West,in the future, the news could read: >A group of 150 from the Great Commission Baptist Church was displaced on April 26 from their homes in the villages of after refusing to participate in LGBTQ festivals in their cities. The villages are predominantly self-identified indigenous Gender Fluidity communities.

I refuse to go down their rabbit hole of alphabet identification.....I have no idea what it means and don’t care. What I DO know is what the book of Romans (and other books of the Bible) teaches about sexual perversion......and for me that’s all I need to know.

Which the Bible as a whole teaches. Thus while few pro homosexual writers concede that the Bible is contrary to same sex behavior, virtually all reject any Biblical censure of it. Author Robin Scroggs states, “Biblical judgments against homosexuality are not relevant to today’s debate.”(Robin Scroggs, The New Testament and Homosexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress, l983) p. 127.) William M. Kent, a member of the committee assigned by United Methodists to study homosexuality, explicitly denied the inspiration of any anti-homosex passages in the Bible, and their application today. John Boswell stated, regarding the Bible, that "one must first relinquish the concept of a single book containing a uniform corpus of writings accepted as morally authoritative." (John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980), 92) John Barton states that the Bible is "a big baggy compendium of a book, full of variety and inconsistency, sometimes mistaken on matters of fact and theology alike." (John Barton, "The Place of the Bible in Moral Debate," Theology 88 (May 1985), 206) Gary David Comstock, Protestant chaplain at Wesleyan University, termed it "dangerous" to fail to condemn the apostle Paul's condemnation of homosexual relations, and advocated removing such from the canon. (Gary David Comstock, Gay Theology Without Apology (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1993), p. 43. http://www.albertmohler.com/article_read.php?cid7) Episcopalian professor L. William Countryman contends, “The gospel allows no rule against the following, in and of themselves: . .. bestiality, polygamy, homosexual acts,” or “pornography.” (Dirt, Greed, and Sex (Fortress, 1988) Christine E. Gudorf flatly denies that the Bible is the primary authority for Christian ethics. (Balch, Homosexuality, Science, and the "plain Sense" of Scripture p. 121) Bishop (Ret.) John Shelby Spong denies all miracles, including the virgin conception and literal bodily resurrection of Christ, as well as the Divine inspiration of Scripture, and denies that there are any moral absolutes (Michael Bott and Jonathan Sarfati, "What’s Wrong With (Former) Bishop Spong?") and relegates the clear condemnation of homosexual relations in Romans 1 to being the product of the apostle Paul's “ill-informed, culturally biased prejudices.” (Spong, Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality, 149-52)

More: https://peacebyjesus.net/homosex_versus_the_bible.html

Perhaps if Musk could develop a Linux distro that was a easily customizable for enhanced efficiency as Windows is (and "needs") then it could obtain major share in the desktop market.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24159258/microsoft-recall-ai-explorer-windows-11-surface-event

There could be this reaction from some people that this is pretty creepy. Microsoft is taking screenshots of everything I do.

Which makes conservatives look gullible. Windows is not taking screenshots of everything I do unless you choose to implement this in the future, and knowledgeable users should know it.

Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.

If this technology sounds familiar, Microsoft tried something less powerful in Windows 10 with Timeline but discontinued the feature in 2021. It’s also because there’s already a very similar app for Mac called Rewind. The software works on M-series Macs and, like Recall, logs everything you do, listens to all of your meetings, and gives you access to a chatbot to recall anything. With Recall, however, you’re getting deep, native integration into Windows, while Rewind is a third-party app you have to install and hand over system permissions.

“Johnson...Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth....Davis simply replied, “That’s wrong.” He also added, “On the contrary, the measure — which has not become law — protects the right to an abortion up until the point of fetal viability, which is roughly reached at 24 weeks of pregnancy.” He further writes, “After that point, the legislation protects the right to abortion only "when, in the good-faith medical judgment of the treating health care provider, continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health," according to the bill's text.”

Meaning that Johnson is correct, though he should have added "conditional," and which is what Davis could have said.

Thanks for all the excellent and informative contributions that you have made in this thread.

Thank God for those who provide such!

I use most of those utilities. But I also use RUFUS to tweak the Windows 11 iso to install it my way. You can also disable the hardware checks this way for older machines. Google “Titus debloat” to tweak your windows 10/11 install. You can remove undesired features and even block updates.

Thanks. I have used RUFUS for making Linux bootable USBs but not Titus debloat, though I see little applicable to my tweaks. Besides other tweaking software, I have hot-keyed Group policy editor and regedit, and saved at lot of scripts. Thank God for all help.

Militarily, China, Russia, Iran/militant Islam are primary enemies of all in the US. Their nukes and or other arms will kill all alike in sudden destruction, while requiring many funds to combat.

Ideologically, the Left with its army of anti-Christ Wokeducation warriors are a slow poison to any country, which most of the NATO countries are promoting. China is the benefactor of the current Russia and Iran vs. the US and Israel conflict as it provides them both business and intel, while impoverishing both Russia and the West.

But it is the immediate militarily threat which calls for the militarily force, while the God-fearing work combat the ideologically enemies in all realm.

As an active conservative evangelical then I yet have relatively more yet limited freedom to publicly act as such here in the US than in Russia, but which is more than in China, which is more than in Iran.

My strongest unity is with evangelicals in all countries, though attacked by both the left as well as certain unequivocal Putin devotees.

Simple: ban contraception and abortion, punish fornication and promote marriage for life.

It is already being done. Rules are set regarding vehicle emissions and features. EV’s are being pushed on us in legal ways. Appliances are being tampered with. The list goes on. Yet Microsoft can obsolete perfectly good computers Purely for nefarious reasons.

But when you purchase a license to use the "mind" of the hardware, versus owning that programming, then that is what they can do, and which in the interest of collective security has some warrant (Windows has become safer).

However, the problem with viruses etc. is usually due to careless "driving" and not the OS.

And you can imagine how the Left would want to require ideological "safeguards" into computing, which search engines are doing (Google no longer even indexes most of my site).

I consider further development of Trusted Computing (TC) to potentially be something dangerous and which the gov. could consider requiring for all.

Trusted Computing (TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group.^[1] The term is taken from the field of trusted systems and has a specialized meaning that is distinct from the field of confidential computing.^[2] With Trusted Computing, the computer will consistently behave in expected ways, and those behaviors will be enforced by computer hardware and software.^[1] Enforcing this behavior is achieved by loading the hardware with a unique encryption key that is inaccessible to the rest of the system and the owner.

TC is controversial as the hardware is not only secured for its owner, but also against its owner, leading opponents of the technology like free software activist Richard Stallman to deride it as "treacherous computing",^[3][4] and certain scholarly articles to use scare quotes when referring to the technology.^[5][6]

Trusted Computing proponents such as International Data Corporation,^[7] the Enterprise Strategy Group^[8] and Endpoint Technologies Associates^[9] state that the technology will make computers safer, less prone to viruses and malware, and thus more reliable from an end-user perspective. They also state that Trusted Computing will allow computers and servers to offer improved computer security over that which is currently available. Opponents often state that this technology will be used primarily to enforce digital rights management policies (imposed restrictions to the owner) and not to increase computer security.^{[3][10]: 23}

Chip manufacturers Intel and AMD, hardware manufacturers such as HP and Dell, and operating system providers such as Microsoft include Trusted Computing in their products if enabled.^[11][12] The U.S. Army requires that every new PC it purchases comes with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM).^[13][14] As of July 3, 2007, so does virtually the entire United States Department of Defense.^[15]...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Free Software Foundation criticize that trust in the underlying companies is not deserved and that the technology puts too much power and control into the hands of those who design systems and software. They also state that it may cause consumers to lose anonymity in their online interactions, as well as mandating technologies Trusted Computing opponents say are unnecessary. They suggest Trusted Computing as a possible enabler for future versions of mandatory access control, copy protection, and DRM.

Some security experts, such as Alan Cox^[27] and Bruce Schneier,^[28] have spoken out against Trusted Computing, believing it will provide computer manufacturers and software authors with increased control to impose restrictions on what users are able to do with their computers. There are concerns that Trusted Computing would have an anti-competitive effect on the IT market.^{[10]...Trusting networked computers to controlling authorities rather than to individuals may create digital imprimaturs.}

Cryptographer Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge, has great concerns that:^[10]

TC can support remote censorship [...] In general, digital objects created using TC systems remain under the control of their creators, rather than under the control of the person who owns the machine on which they happen to be stored [...] So someone who writes a paper that a court decides is defamatory can be compelled to censor it — and the software company that wrote the word processor could be ordered to do the deletion if she refuses. Given such possibilities, we can expect TC to be used to suppress everything from pornography to writings that criticize political leaders.Trusted Computing Group members have refused to implement owner override.^[34]

Because a Trusted Computing equipped computer is able to uniquely attest to its own identity, it will be possible for vendors and others who possess the ability to use the attestation feature to zero in on the identity of the user of TC-enabled software with a high degree of certainty. ...Critics point out that this could have a chilling effect on political free speech, the ability of journalists to use anonymous sources, whistle blowing, political blogging and other areas where the public needs protection from retaliation through anonymity.

Since 2004, most major manufacturers have shipped systems that have included Trusted Platform Modules, with associated BIOS support.^[47] In accordance with the TCG specifications, the user must enable the Trusted Platform Module before it can be used.

The Linux kernel has included trusted computing support since version 2.6.13, and there are several projects to implement trusted computing for Linux. In January 2005, members of Gentoo Linux's "crypto herd" announced their intention of providing support for TC—in particular support for the Trusted Platform Module.^[48] There is also a TCG-compliant software stack for Linux named TrouSerS, released under an open source license. There are several open-source projects that facilitate the use of confidential computing technology, including EGo, EdgelessDB and MarbleRun from Edgeless Systems, as well as Enarx, which originates from security research at Red Hat. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing#Criticism

Note that while Trusted Computing relies on the now required (by W/11) Trusted Platform Module (and a TPM is provided by nearly all PC and notebook manufacturers in their products), that being the ultimate hardware system where the core 'root' of trust in the platform has to reside, it is the further development and implementation of Trusted Computing that I am wary of.

Read Genesis. And Jesus said it was made for man. Such poor Bible scholarship. It’s as if you don’t have a Bible.

Actually, as expressed and ignored, you must read into the Bible a command to keep the Sabbath prior to the giving of the law (and any actual practice of doing so), and then of any nation other than Israel being punished for not keeping it, and any reiteration of the 4th commandment for the church to keep under the New Covenant, and of the only specific day that the Lord and church meeting together being the sabbaton rather than the first day, and of 4th commandment being excepted as part of the typological commands rather than being included with them

Meaning that you can only wish that you have not exampled ignoring what refutes you, while reading into the Bible that which you can only wish that it taught in rightly divide the word of Truth, and of failure to do so and to follow its Truth wherever it leads, rather than being committed to your elitist cult.

As such, you have relegated yourself to being in the class of bots which warrant being ignored. Final warning.

May God grant you “repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” (2 Timothy 2:25)

Actually, I see that daniel1212's wonderfully detailed post right after my reply to you contains a possible answer to my dilemma about the Win11 taskbar.

I do not know about that, but https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher enables moving the taskbar to top/bottom/right/left. R. click on empty spot on TB, hit Properties and then Taskbar. Look to options.

Also, there is "A new app called Taskbar11 allows you to place the Taskbar at the top of your screen when running Windows 11. The app is free and available on GitHub'. - https://www.windowscentral.com/free-app-lets-you-move-windows-11-taskbar-top-screen

Congress should at least require windows 11 to be installed on computers that can handle it. Many computers that are locked out are very fast computers. Quad core Gen 7 Intel processors are even locked out. Meaning that Microsoft expects people to throw them away. That has a huge environmental cost. So where is congress?

Requiring Congress to do this is not a practice that should be encouraged. Once they do that, what else would they want installed?

Which is offensive to Linux devotees, and while we have on quite capable home built box running it for surfing, I have not found it justifying the time and energy I would want to make it comparable to Windows as customized, by the grace of God. As per post above.

I’m gonna need a translation of that post to understandable Standard English please.

Sorry, that was due to a "software" glitch and neglect to review code by the tired old hasty "programmer," who often imagines that what he is thinking gets clearly expressed in what he writes.

Which was,

Which reply ("Linux is not an option for most users") is offensive to Linux devotees, and while we have Linux running on a quite capable home-built rig, used mainly for surfing, yet I have not found Linux justifying the time and energy it would take to make it comparable to Windows as customized I would want it, by the grace of God, as described in my post above.

ClassicShell (now OpenShell) was a godsend for Windows10. It's an absolute necessity for Windows11.

As is Explorer Patcher and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker beta for me.

Accept nothing less than a desktop with a fair sized case. Something that is relatively easy to monkey with.

Yes, if able. Smartphones are inferior in most computing use,

Linux is not an option for most users, waste of time and effort, plus the tech downgrade. All of the Linux users I know have long ago set up Windows computers to use the software and so forth. Linux is best for servers.

Which is offensive to Linux devotees, and while we have on quite capable home built box running it for surfing, I have not found it justifying the time and energy I would want to make it comparable to Windows as customized, by the grace of God. As per post above.

Win 11 Pro runs fine for me, but I am a long-term Windows user (from 3.1, W/9x, XP, W.8.1. 10 and 11 (at the cost of less than $30 since an upgrade from XP was on the Retail channel, thank God) yet, looking for improvement and options, I have tried every major and many minor Linux distros (and Mint is used daily on my old computer by a brother, mainly just for email and the Internet).

But while the receding issue of a few illegal multimedia codecs, if needed, was a concern I would have to deal with, what has really kept me from being a “convert” to Linux was and mainly is that of lack of need and unwarranted time that would be required to customize it as I have with Windows (despite MS resistance).

Meaning that I have been able to quite easily and freely customize Windows, effecting improvements in efficiency (which Windows as well as Linux warrant), via enhancements and quick access to applications and features, but without much of a learning curve.

For one, I am the type of person who likes compact yet expansive menus, and overall enable quick access to programs and places, while improving layout without needing to learn much coding though I have edited the Windows registry a few times, and sometimes used Power Shell to accomplish such.

Therefore I like the the over 200 tweaks available in Ultimate Windows Tweaker for Windows 11 from the Windows club (Windows 10 users should use Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.8 for Windows 10), as well as Winaero Tweaker and Explorer Patcher and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker beta.

To begin with, Explorer Patcher restores the Windows 11 taskbar to be exactly like Windows 10, and with it I use the Windows 7+ Taskbar Tweaker which provides more customization. Below is two-level (Windows enables this by dragging the top border upward) Taskbar:

Note that most of the buttons are that of multiple Portable Firefox installations, each generally being for its own purpose, from forums to shopping. (Note that to run more than one copy of installations of FF portable concurrently, you need to place a copy of the FirefoxPortable.ini from Other\Source to the main folder of FirefoxPortable and edit the FirefoxPortable.ini to instruct:
AllowMultipleInstances=true)
DisableIntelligentStart=true)

You can also create a Quick launch menu for your taskbar, either for a custom folders or the default Quick launch (buried in %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch) . Right click on your taskbar and hit Toolbars and then New Toolbars and navigate you the folder of your choice,

Add to this Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus), plus Open Shell to replace the Windows 11 start menu

Resulting in these expansive quickly accessible layouts (composite image of desktop view in Windows 11: Start and Right-Click menus, default Device manager; task bar via Explorer Patcher.

In contrast, are examples of more limited, spaced out/less compact (though scrollable) default menus in both Windows and typical Linux distros (and the sparsity of the Mint right click menus is not worth showing. Puppy Linux is better)

(Mint):

Yet which is better than the Windows 11 default Start menu (contrasted with OpenShell, on right)

”Meanwhile T-Clock Redux works in W/10 far better than the default Windows clock, or any I have seen for Windows or Linux, but does not work for me in W/11 as yet.

Also, I like being able to quickly see and actually go the source of program executables in Windows via a right click on the menu icon, hit Properties and Open file location and go there, which I usually find I cannot do in Linux start menus

Why? For one, because we should be able to find actual locations. For instance, i may want to edit something in my Firefox profile folder, (in does such, I have found the extra security of Linux to be a hindrance. As the sole user of this PC, I do not want to have to run a terminal to do many things I can do as a Admin in Windows).

Another reason is because sometimes I want to be able to easily choose which application to open a file with, or which location to send a shortcut to. So I go to the buried Send to folder (%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo), and right click on that folder and choose to create a shortcut to it, and then place that shortcut in the folder itself. Then you can right click on program shortcuts such as to image viewers, editors, and send them to the Send to folder.

And then, if you want to open up an image or document in one of a programs designed for it other than the default one, then you can right click on the file and point to Send to and to one of the programs you placed there to open it with. Which can be faster than the Windows default “Open with” option (which does not list my portable programs)

Note that Windows hides extensions of known file types by default, thus hiding executables, and so of the first things I do in Windows is go to folder options and select Show hidden… and deselect “Hide extensions…”

Then there are free utilities such as AutoHotKey which does involve finding out some basic coding to create scripts which will do such things as remap keys. For me, this is very helpful, esp. due to typing and operations with stiff arthritic fingers). For I remapp Caps Lock to ctrl+c (which I find hard to accomplish past sessions in Linux), and Esc to ctrl+v ; NumLock to Esc and the middle mouse button to ctrl+x by addng the lines below to a script:

CapsLock::^c

(NumLock::Esc

Esc::^v

mbutton::^x

This enables copying a selected (highlighted) word or section of a page by simply pressing the CapsLack key, and pasting it with Esc, which is replaced by NumLock, while the middle mouse button cuts (ctrl_x).

There are also Windows programs that there are no truly comparable applications for in Linux (maybe There is for AutoHotKey now).

However, if you can code and compile etc. then that is fine. I do not want to degrade all Linux users, and maybe one day I will mainly be one, but I am giving my reasons for not having switched. At least not yet.

I thank God for the tools we have, and those who create and improve and provide them. May they only be used for good, expressing God, the source of all that is Good.