Until the grandmother asks you "Now how do I put my CDs on my iPhone? Under Windows, I put the CD in the drive and started iTunes."

I don't know what specific software Quasar1999 was running. In my own case, the proprietary Windows-only program is iTunes for loading MP3s onto my roommate's iPhone SE 3. In the case of other people I regularly talk to online, the proprietary Windows-only program is VRChat.

Say my roommate wants me to load MP3s onto her iPhone. I haven't figured out how to do that other than through iTunes for Windows, which does not run in Wine, or Finder for macOS. Am I "deliberately obtuse" or "stupid"?

Which handheld computer with a cellular radio that respects users' freedom is compatible with U.S. mobile networks? Last I checked, things like the Fairphone were made for the European market, with no attempt to get onto Verizon's or AT&T's allowlist.

False.

That will happen to Reddit too, once people realize they can get on the front page of search results by posting there.

Terrorists use terror for political purposes. Violence is deprecated, but not everyone who is violent is a terrorist.

Your idea seems unrealistic on two counts:

Historically we have seen groups with houses and future to reach for, who still go to war.

Israel did withdraw from Gaza, motivated by your idea, closing the settlements and removing the settlers, and Gaza got worse, not better. The infrastructure got damaged.

You should read what I wrote again, because I clearly did not ignore that.

Well, I'm uncomfortable killing, period. Even if they are terrorists, we should look for another way before jumping in to killing them. In the case of Hamas there may (or may not) be another way, but war is always and everywhere a sad thing.

I'm basically speaking from personal experience here. I believe Microsoft had a lot of managers with engineering degrees. This trash person has an engineering degree.

It's also a temporary problem. Short-range anti-drone missiles should cost roughly the same amount as drones.

For a while I was making a list of weird translations I saw it do. The most extreme was translating "woman" as "man."

I think more often, whistleblowing is just complaining to your manager, or manager's manager.

Yeah. I don't think they've improved in translation ability. I think they've gotten worse in translation ability.

They have improved in the sense that the output of the translation tools is more likely to be grammatically correct.