Indeed, that is why anyone with a clue wouldn't make important (hell, any... ) devices on a Cloud Service. I, and I hope nobody with a clue, wouldn't accept a firewall that is cloud dependent.

Mine beeps but also gives me an estimate for the time needed. That is useful. I just set an alert on my phone based on that time. Not hard.

Amazon Prime also allows you to download the content. (At least on a phone/tablet you can, I don't know for computers. Probably not.)

I don't expect support from any vendor on any platform. It's that simple.

Support? I use Debian. I do my own support and use "the Internet" for that. My SteamBox is literally Debian 11, booting into a very lightweight DE, autostarting the Steam client in Big Picture mode... all of the info to do that, is available online.

Try VueScan. (Satisfied customer here)

It's "PC Master race" after all, eh?

/me ducks and runs...

Many budget laptops still come with 1366x768. Many good second hand business machines do too.

But we all know how true that is, given they claimed the same about Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer is ... gone. Proving their lies.

I would formulate this differently: "Microsoft is very determined to sell Minecraft Education licenses to schools all over the world."

So, in other words: Stallman was right.... again.

If it's not yet 3 years old, the proper way to say that is "year and year"

Averages are a bad way to look at age of car parks. A lot of people crash their cars in the first few years of ownership. Reasons are multiple, included but not limited to not knowing their car well, "trying out what it can do", first time young and inexperienced buyes, etc... For each 1 year old car that gets crashed (and thus scrapped), you will need a 25 year old car that gets scrapped. Or more realistically six 15 year old cars.... In this case the median age of a scrapped car would be much more interesting.

Also, "scrapped" is a bit of a misnomer. You read part about the cars I told you went to Africa? Those are scrapped cars. In the eyes of the Western World, they enter the stats as scrapped. Of course, in reality, that's not what happens to them in Africa.

That is correct. Most car constructors have understood that people don't care about longevity. After all, those who actually *buy* new cars, are those who change it after 3 to 6 years. Only those people are their customers. Everyone after that is not relevant. People like us who keep on their car for very long time are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, even if we do buy new cars. Just not frequently enough.

Sad to hear the quality of that car was so low. I do hear from several people that anything built after 2000 really dipped in quality.

ICE cars don't last that long on average.

However, it doesn't need to be that way. A well maintained ICE car will last you several decades. Personally I've been driving the same car for the past 21 years (405000km)
What really happens is that people get tired of their car and replace it early. The next owner is less affluent and skimps on maintenance and repairs, and the downward spiral starts for the car.
Eventually, the car gets exported to Eastern Europe(1), and then after another decade when they're done with it, it gets exported to Africa where it will run until it totally falls apart, and then will live on as spare parts.

(1) I live in Western Europe. This is the way Mercedes, Audi, and BMW take. Other brands may skip directly to Africa.