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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by voldacar on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:29PM (#25586984)
Yeah but thats not the parent's point. The problem isn't a lack of ability to play .swf files, it's about the user's control over his machine
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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by protoman3000 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:50PM (#25587198)
Can you on your own machine run your own bootloader and execute whatever instruction you would like to execute?

If yes, what’s your point?

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by EvanAnderson on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:26PM (#25587564)
For an increasing number of devices the answer to your first question is no.

We've already normalized the idea that a significant market percentage of small-form-factor battery-operated general purpose computers don't actually belong to the people who bought them.

We're a hair's breadth away from normalizing that idea with personal computers.

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