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Let me guess, suicide by 17 gunshots to the back of his head? In his car in a hotel parking lot?

Wouldn’t it be more like Android/Linux (or Android plus Linux) because it only has a small fraction of the GNU software / libraries but still uses the Linux kernel?

The only reason I still have Windows are a few games that don’t work properly on Linux (via Steam Proton) yet.

I will keep Windows 10 until Steam no longer supports it or all my games run well on Linux (I check for that occasionally). IDGAF about no longer getting security updates as I have moved everything except for those few games to Linux years ago.

Especially not for such enragingly artificial hardware requirements. Any computer able to run 64-Bit Win XP would probably run Windows 11 just fine if Microsoft hadn’t decided to build instructions that only work on recent CPUs into the kernel specifically to make it not run on older hardware.

At that point I’d just get rid of Windows entirely. I used to have it on my laptop, and the updates it installed after booting for the first time in months broke networking. I never used that install so I decided to use the storage space for more sensible things.

The same applies for the other way around when I need Windows for something.

I apparently magically attract computers with a horribly slow UEFI so it takes a while to reboot regardless of the OS.

The category filters of electronics distributors used to be good (some still are). But then they started letting business people categorize the products, and now finding stuff without having a part number is basically a lottery.

I suspect most people that only use their Windows computer for general stuff like web browsing, e-mail, multi media, office etc., which is probably the majority by far, will actually fall for the subscription scam.

If their spying algorithm is as easy to fool as Instagram’s, that wouldn’t be a major concern if I still used that bad fediverse clone.

I have one backpack I use for everything. I usually keep a 65W USB A+C charger and a 45W Powerbank with a small assortment of cables in there.

Now of course I have multiple USB-PD chargers and powerbanks, however all of those mysteriously disappear when I need them, making it necessary to use the backpack ones at home and being the clumsy dork I am, I always forget them there reducing the backpack charger count to zero. And guess when I come into a situation where I desperately need to recharge \ on the go?

And now you’ve got carmakers looking to charge by the month for features.

When I reach the point at which I am forced to buy a car like that, I’d just find out from where the feature gets controlled and hack in my own controller and a good 'ol switch.

I’m honestly astonished that Google hasn’t pulled the plug on Mozilla yet. After all, their missions completely and utterly oppose each other and Mozilla probably causes the biggest losses to Google.

If your prediction comes true, which isn’t unlikely, Firefox forks that already exist would probably take its spot. Or privacy friendly Chromium based browsers. I know, the latter sounds like an oxymoron, but they exist and one of them I would be hated on for naming has actually been proven to have better out of the box privacy than Firefox.

If you use a good 2FA app instead of Google Authenticator (yes, they can be used interchangably) you can use it on desktop and copy the OTPs to your clipboard. I personally use Authy, but others compatible with GA exist as well.

Also, 2FA is optional almost everywhere, but if you decide to not enable it, don’t act surprised if your accounts get taken over. These days a password just isn’t enough.

Security and convenience are just mutually exclusive and I don’t expect mankind to ever find a way around that fact.

It’s probably some kind of weird reward effect in our brains. Like “Yay, whatever I just ate attacked me and I survived! Gimme some more of that!”

It’s one of the reasons my next phone will be Android (with a non-spying custom ROM) instead of an iPhone. Although KDE Connect is already surprisingly powerful on the latter given the limitations of the platform.

Did you know that X Corp. has a website for their hamster business as well?

So I guess it’s only a matter of time until Facebook renames itself to 𝕁.
(It’s the same offset in the alphabet)

The only downside is that even the most basic configurations are well over my price range. For anything small enough to be considered portable by me, they’re even at least double my laptop budget. But I guess quality comes at it’s (seemingly exponential) price.