I've had similar experiences. When you have to concentrate deeply on something, it just is harder to get to the mindset while standing.

All they need to do is to ask their nerd friend.

- Raawh! Windows subscription payment! What is this rubbish? I'm not paying anything! Joe, can you do something about this?
- There is Ubuntu, which is free.
- Good. Is that the Linux thingy?
- Well, technically it is GNU/Linux. You see, Linux is only the...
- Whatever! Does it come with Internet?
- Sure.
- Ok. Here's my laptop. Can you install Ubanto for me?
- It will take only few moments.
- Thanks, kid. I'll buy you some beer.

I do not suspect so. People are used to getting Windows bundled with their computers. If those people suddenly have to start paying for Windows, they would get annoyed and start digging deeper for free alternatives. Eventually they would find Ubuntu and that would begin to hurt Microsoft's business.

Windows 8 and newer come close to that, as they start up part of the OS from an hibernation image.

SteamOS is like that.

If Wine was commercial software, the customer demand and highly-motivated crack team of paid developers would have resulted the software to have premium USB support 10 years ago.

Well said. The only love we should be giving companies is the money we use to pay for their products. At the same time we should always demand the best quality possible for that money.

No, the sentence is correct. Read it again. Notice that the word "immune" means "resistant to something".

Yep, technically you are correct.

IPv4 CG-NAT seems to be heavily used in cell phone networks as well.

I don't know, man. Every year there seems to be some kind of "Oh my god, last IPv4 addresses allocated!!" story in Slashdot. For example, this one from 2011.

Despite that, we seem to be trucking on just fine. What's the real picture of the situation?

In a recent LateBlt video, there's some interesting rambling about DOSBox and its forks. Long story short, the development of the main branch has halted a long time ago, although it works pretty well already. However the DOSBox Daum fork is alive and offers things like save states.

Hurr durr I'ma sheep.