Even on the windows side you are better off with the 1st party defender features these days.

Enterprise use 3rd party AV for central orchestration and control. Theres no reason for this in consumer land.

The threat detection isn’t meaningfully better across any of them (aside from some being “astonishingly bad”) despite what vendors claim.

The best people to know how to protect your OS are the people that made it.

Yes, it’s all very good.

Nice try but I’m keeping my even more instant instant noodles to myself.

I’ll give you a hint though, the secret is in being ok with pumping boiling water into your stomach.

Yeah windows standby sucks. On platforms where the equivalent of s0 doesn’t suck, it’s awesome.

Don’t you? Instant wake is hella useful, especially if you are using a laptop as a laptop and moving between meeting rooms etc, constantly bumping between sleep and wake.

They note towards the bottom they’ve also developed a sustainable resin in place of PVA.

Seagate are still pretty good? Western Digital/Sandisk are the ones with failing external SSD issues at the moment (same company).

It’s pot luck generally, unfortunately. Even good manufacturers can have a bad batch.

If all you’re looking to do is nicer input switching, a KVM switch would be a better solve.

Capture cards would be more useful if you wanted to record the gaming sessions. AFAIK they will always introduce latency as they are usually designed for a situation where that is fine.

Carbon credits have been abused all sorts of ways as essentially a license to continue polluting. The EU’s current stance is that the credit programs are so fucked in this manner they no longer really count.

Apples current approach of ‘everything we can and credit the rest’ is still ahead of the majority of the industries position, but not surprising that EU don’t accept it as ‘zero carbon.’

What the EU would like is for everyone to take responsibility for their own carbon generation throughout the entire supply chain rather than buying credits from greener companies, whether this is realistic or practical is yet to be seen.