It’s not useless. It will enable MS to build the walled garden they want, where you are forced to use the software they permit you to and nothing else.

All fun and games until somebody notices the groove in the road behind you.

“I actually played Bloodlines 1 quite recently, and it is a good game, but it is also an old game, and there are many things that would not fly today,”

No new Heather. I guarantee it. Also, there will be a shitstorm about it.

I stayed on XP until some game I wanted didn’t work (by that time, 7 was out), I stayed on 7 until some game I wanted didn’t work (by that time, 10 was out). Nothing bad happened to me. I’ll take my chances. At least until I find the time to get into Linux, whenever that may be.

Because MS is so good at quickly releasing quality patches for every vulnerability that it’s not already a huge target?

“Last Christmas”

On the other hand, if it was 107°C outside, the outrage would be so much more justified.

hard to comply with properly

Not at all. Don’t collect personal data that’s not technically necessary for the service to work. Tell users what data is collected and for what purposes. Done.

Positions of power are filled by people who are not interested in holding power.

Wear hearing protection.

If my workplace is in any way representative, it’s because decisions are made by close to retirement out of touch old geezers who want to virtue signal very hard that they are not out of touch old geezers. So they push the “new thing” for lack of any actually innovative ideas of their own. Then, when the younger team members who do have some rough knowledge of the “new thing” try to explain why it might be a bad idea, they call them afraid of progress and double down on the “new thing” even harder.

Yes to both (English/German).

Try it for a few days. You get into it real quick and it has a lot of useful features.

The keyboard itself is great, I just feel like the auto correction keeps doing everything in it’s power to fuck up what I typed, more so than before I switched.

Look at Germany for example. Lots of FKK (nude) areas. No one really bats an eye.

We still don’t appreciate our nudes posted online, fake or not.

We function just fine. Seeing images or hearing voices in your mind is not required for any task I’m aware of.

We don’t.