He's deliberately making the point accessible because he's writing for all levels of readers, including Americans.

He won the nobel prize for economics and was one of the few sane voices during the great recession.

He won the nobel prize for economics and was one of the few sane voices during the great recession.

There is no nobel prize for economics. It's an even phonier prize made up by bankers. Even if there were an actual nobel, that's no reason for believing anybody's opinions far outside their realm of expertise (eg. krugman here).

More importantly krugman has been consistently liberal trash since forever.

There is no such thing as a Nobel Prize for Economics

Perception matters

^{Paul Larkin (An Inevitable Adjustment)}

Paul Krugman is a nobel-prize winning economist who used to have a column in the NY Times.

Aka totally discredited.

The "nobel in econ" is as much of a fraud as econ in general.

Anybody who knows this goofball knows not to listen to his crap.

There is no such thing as a Nobel Prize for Economics

Perception matters

^{Paul Larkin (An Inevitable Adjustment)}

An ad hominum attack and a distinction without a difference is a hell of a response to "who is this guy".

Do you want to show the class where on your wallet the Keynesian model of economics touched you? (Or do you perhaps have a "Krugman sucks and you shouldn't listen to him" link you'd like to share?)

No, I’m not trolling. Why would I believe this person to know what they’re talking about in a subject I don’t understand well, when I know they’re wrong about a subject I do understand well?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Man…

the phenomenon that one will believe everything they read from a news source even after they come across an article about something they know well that is completely incorrect

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

You do know that the entire rest of the article never mentions drugs ever again

Because the headline is clickbait bullshit.. because the author is a grifter.

Well boot sector viruses used to be all the rage in the 90s, they're entirely impossible under secure boot

Malware rootkits were a pretty big problem about a decade ago, I understand the techniques those mostly used are more or less impossible under secure boot now too

Then we could go into all the government and adjacent industry use cases where state-sponsored targeted attacks are a real concern. Measures like filling USB ports with super glue and desoldering microphones on company laptops is not unheard of in those circles, so blocking unknown bootloaders from executing is an absolute no brainer.

Saying it provides no security is just not true. Your front door isn't only secure if someone has failed to break in

Secure Boot keys are considered compromised.

arstechnica.com/security/2024/…

If you are recommending secure boot as a security measure, you should stop doing so.

Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers

Keys were labeled “DO NOT TRUST.” Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

You don't have to

If you only need it for 90 days before it expires, Microsoft will give you the VM for free (and if you're particularly industrious, you might write a script that then installs a load of your shit for you to run after you fire up a fresh one)

If you don't care about potentially breaking the law you can run it forever with a couple of scripts you can find on GitHub

If you don't want to break the law but also don't want to pay full price you can get a dubious but working key from sites like G2A and cdkeys

If that's still too sketchy there's the OEM licenses (honestly not worth it since they can only activate on a single machine ever)

Or finally you might feel sorry for Microsoft for some strange reason and want to go full retail price.

Basically the same experience with all options for a lot of cases, they're just happy to have users it seems

My work has licenses I can apply for VMs when I'm keeping them for longer client work, so yes they are licensed in my case.

I wouldn't do that for my own personal use though.

i don't want to and that's why i asked.

i stepped back into the windows eco sphere recently after leaving it 12 years ago and was wondering how people were getting around the activation now-a-days

You can even use SecureBoot and TPM in a VM ;) OVMF EDK2 fully supports both ;)

SecureBoot is fine, sucks that vendors won't add distro keys but you can do that yourself, or use the shim.