I think it’s the economic cratering rather than simple preferences at work here.

US dollar to zero speed run.

I understand a good chunk of this voter block were Trump voters. I hope they understand what they voted for.

They didn’t care about them before either. It was just an excuse to perform horrible cruelty all along.

It’s tough. Years of upbringing makes it hard for her to not respond, but even in the best of times they were conservative nuts. But sure, not everybody likes their family’s political views, right? They went full Nazi during his first term. Now, they don’t even try to hide it and openly admit that they agree with everything happening.

A VPN is fast becoming essential internet isn’t it?

Very cool, and the best part is that these platforms aren’t directly competing because here I am posting about it on Lemmy. It’s fascinating that the Fediverse can evolve in a way that doesn’t shed users.

Had a discussion with my wife’s parents the other day. They thought it was hilarious. They laughed, alternating between mockery of the poor and “nobody helped me so everybody should suffer!”

She said maybe it’s time to go no-contact.

A mere formality. He can just go ask the Supreme Court to declare that he’s not a felon or something. Does it make any sense? No, but does any of it?

Unironically, yes. That’s not nearly as common sense as you may think. There’s no such thing as idiot-proof steps. To some you may very well be a pro from that alone.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Precisely. Windows is a side project for Microsoft now.

If that child could step down from pretending to be a man, he’d be a credit to his team.

Capitalism: and we can charge them for the cheese, too!

They know. They’re OK with it. In fact, many millions of Americans are OK with it.