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Re:Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:14PM (#31114638)
It will; there are tweaks out there that explicitly allow for installing windows 11 on an mbr partition.

Hint: download the latest version of Rufus, point it to a windows 11 iso and select the "Extended installation" mode. The result will happily install itself onto an MBR partition.

I performed an upgrade (!) of a windows 10 installation to windows 11 in this manner; I'm writing from this SSD right now.

  PS C:\Users\alexa> $(get-disk | ? {$_.IsSystem}).PartitionStyle; [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version 
  MBR
  
  Major  Minor  Build  Revision
  -----  -----  -----  --------
  10     0      22000  0
As a native Russian I do remember learning about the said cooperation in school in the 2000s
I'm feeling bewitched by this entire story of rejection of He Jiankui. Could someone here please describe in layman's terms what's wrong with the _ethics_ of germline editing?

Edit: yes it's gonna be crazy expensive and 10+ years will pass before the tech is ready for mass use, I realize that.

Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:33AM (#25925348)
There is a try/catch/finally mechanism in powershell: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft... However, it is quirky to set up and I don't remember the details now, it doesn't handle the errors out of the box for sure. I would still prefer powershell over bash (or god forbid, cmd) any day.