Hopefully Microsoft's planned obsolescence will have the unintended consequences of making corporations that try to squeeze too much profits out of their customers become obsolete, (Linux can do it).

Hire the poor to peddle for two meals and a small wage or whatever is fair

Mostly spam, an auto pay notification on my cellular carrier, nothing else to be found in there

I think switching to gitlab is advisably a good idea now, look at the mess Win_11 turned into and to trust these people with source code on this scale? Noway am I going to continue with github

Abandon Microsoft Windows, anything less condones their corrupt backstabbing evil shenanigans, there is plenty of good Linux distributions to choose from

And now they need to kill it and start over and produce a usable operating system that actually respects people's privacy, anything less deserves nothing but contempt, and leave the fucking AI & LLMs out and keep it only as an optional package users can CHOOSE if they want it

With the popularity of solar power and the 18650 rechargable battery would make that happen if I had a say in it

I abandoned MS_Windows when XP was released, I dual booted with Win2k for a while, then eventually pure straight Linux 100%, I did not do a lot of distro hopping but I tried a few, not as many distros back then as their is now, I eventually settled on Slackware

Over hyped search engine and information compiling engine, it is not intelligent it is not sentient

A smartphone is far more than a phone, they are pocket sized computers that can do amazing things

EVs catching fire on the roads in China, or going out of control and running people down, scary security can leaks

A tablet type device made from a RaspberryPi https://raspad.com/ I would buy one if they ever had some in stock but they are always out of stock like someone is buying them all up as fast as they can produce them

Do the private sector too, John Deere is one of the worst offenders

Let's build CPUs @ 128 bit and give the 64 bit the old heave_ho too

With pockets made for smartphones, like a nice denim button up shirt like Wrangler makes only with the pockets two inches deeper than they ate now, and khaki and denim trowsers with deeper pockets too, a little research can find the best location where the phone is protected from damage by normal activity