You don't have a choice if you want/need to run a supported enterprise apt-based distro. For some companies a support contract is mandatory. You can get a subscription from Canonical and they'll support you and provide early access to bugfixes etc.

The problem with that is that you will have to deal with the (anti-)lobby of the established current businesses and their power of scale while you are trying to figure out how to scale up to the same level the established companies are. Large optimized production businesses are not built in a year, see Tesla as a recent example.

I think a multi-billion dollar company should (be able to) pay for this themselves

As stated in the blurb, they offered a 1GB mailbox in a time where 15MB was the norm and you might have a family-shared mailbox of 50MB. PC's could be fitted with a whopping 300GB hard drive, and that was on the large end of the spectrum.

* knocking on screen * Hi, I see you're writing some bugs. Would you like some help with that?

256GB quickly fills up with software, user data and OS upgrade files. I've had a few OS upgrade blockings just because of that. It's no fun to run a full cleanup, move user data to an external hdd, download & run the OS upgrade and copy all userdata back again. Or you can try telling them they can't save/install 100GB worth of software, family pictures/movies, documents, a bunch of recipes, tax filings, etc. anymore so you won't have to deal with an OS that can't be upgraded. So in a minimalist sense you could say 256GB is enough, I'd rather say 256GB _free_ is a minimum. They could easily install 2 disks, a 100GB OS disk, unusable for anything except the OS and a 256GB (or larger) user disk.

I find this topic fascinating. How do your childhood memories "look"? Can you recall Grandma & Grandpa visually or just as a (loving/grumpy/other) concept with some feelings attached?

For the people that didn't realize the abovementioned issue, did they never have someone (for instance a teacher) saying: "Picture this..." and just plain answering "I can't" ?

From the story:

Emphasis mine.

I think this device is for developers and early adapters. Probably a lot of tech companies are looking into this device and seeing what new immersion level they can create for the wearers.

You obVIously misspelled "crusty".

but can you do "runas !!" to run the previous command in with administrator privileges?

"Oh look honey, look! The binoculars say that that's a penguin over there!" "Wow! Where?" "Right between that half eaten apple and multicolored window, next to the green robot!"

''First shalt thou write a story about Baby Shoes. Thou shalt use six words, no more, no less. Six shall be the number of words thou shalt use, and the number of the words shall be six. Seven shalt thou not use, neither use thou five, excepting that thou then proceed to six. Eight is right out. Once the word six, being the sixth word, be reached, then displayest thou thy Story of Baby Shoes to thy creator, who, being curious, shall evaluate it.'

Sure, that's your call to make. Just admit to being wrong (and learn new stuff because of it) instead of countering every valid argument with "yeah but not for you".