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My crime is more:

The 500 games in library
The 10 games I only play when a friend is playing
The 3 games I actually play for me

This makes sense. I have a friend from way back in HS who interned there while he was working on his degree who said that cloud services was the priority at the time, and Windows was more just a vehicle that they continued to maintain. That continues to be the approximate temperature of the product and is in line with my expectations.

They don’t care. They just want as much money as they can collect during their brief lives.

I really do care, but I don’t have anything more I can do. I can take individual measures, and I can vote, but by and large fellow citizens clearly expressed that they don’t value this.

That’s because Republicans don’t have principles. They only respect power.

A close friend of mine used to work for the EPA until last year. He described it as an organization that formalizes bribes for exceptions, a simple cost of doing business.

But of course, billionaires are so greedy that that wasn’t good enough and they don’t want to pay the bribes anymore.

I never understand this mindset because a person who is technically skilled like this is exactly the kind of person who wouldn’t struggle with Linux.

They’re already the kind of person who would be an excellent Linux user. I can only imagine that, for whatever reason, they’ve grown emotionally attached and are simply too stubborn to consider anything else.

They might be surprised that open source software exists, is sometimes the best available in the niche, and highly skilled contributors are often willing spend their free time making it better for little more than bragging rights.

This is a sign of emotional intelligence. When people get emotionally invested in their argument, they don't want to lose, and they often won't let themselves believe they can even lose even when they have.

Until the next re-bloating update where your settings get reverted and services re-installed.

Being good at de-bloating (as you may very well be to do that in a few minutes!) is an anti-skill that shouldn't have to exist.

Even better if a person simply asked if it was OK to flirt with me first. I also feel like it opens up the silliness a bit. Then, you can’t really blame them if it just sounds dumb. Like, they warned you!

I would much prefer if someone began their flirting process with a plain and obvious statement.

I could imagine a future where Windows is just a proprietary DE over a Linux system. I don’t think it’s coming anytime soon because of the development cost it would impose, but I don’t see why they would go to such efforts maintaining a system they could get for free if the desktop user base keeps shrinking. They’re just too greedy not to do that. Even the backwards compatibility with Windows software is becoming a solved problem.

Aside from my above rant, the PC is definitely fast becoming an enthusiast/business platform. I opened a retirement account the other day through my smart phone!