Tax me harder, daddy.

Boomers and MS are on their way out. College kids these days prefer Apple. Cutting-edge gamers see what Steam is accomplishing with Linux and Proton/WINE. Mac and Linux both come with free software that does everything MS Office does. MS is doing all it can to try to maintain its presence. Eventually, it will fall. I'm in my late 40s, but I can't wait. This ancient software can't be made extinct soon enough!

Gross. I'll pass.

For nearly a decade, I have subscribed to the Delorme/Garmin inReach service for satellite communication in the middle of nowhere. Starting with the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max, this feature was included for free. While I don't expect the Apple service to be free forever, moving it to a camera-enabled device I already have, plus saving me ~$15 a month, I have canceled my Garmin subscription. There's nothing wrong with the device, but saving almost $200 a year and building emergency coms into the USB C-chargeable device I'm carrying around anyway is an obvious choice.

Vote blue, vote red, wtf ever. Every administration puts the country further in debt and makes prices go up.

The cost of international flights dropped 4%. Depending on when they were purchased, Disney World tickets increased between 9% and 55%. Park food increased more than 5%. Yes, I know there are lots of other US tourist destinations, but Disney prices are some of the best documented, and likely representative of national trends. Have US attractions succeeded in pricing themselves out of 8% of the international market?

You mean the stance that explains how there is no federal opinion on abortion, that is up to the states?

Where are you taking that goalpost?

Cold weather is coming soon. Don't forget to order a load of coal.

Starlink covers all of the country.

I wish the US would follow suit. Nothing comes from the post office but junk mail.

Speak for yourself. I can spot the shit a mile away. I can also easily identify AI images and videos.

Boomers are the only ones falling for phishing.

I have a work-issued model from 2021. Heavy, loud, and slow. The keyboard is fine, but I don't care for the placement of the Function key. For portability and battery life, a Macbook Air is tough to beat. For Windows stuff, there are much better performers at the Thinkpad price range. What am I missing?

I just know it's time to give up on Windows on my decade-old desktop. I originally built it in 2015 to be a Hackintosh, but gaming kept it on Windows. I've since moved my gaming to a modern-spec laptop and a Steam Deck OLED, so the desktop is seldom used. When I built the desktop, it was necessary to have a working Mac to get or apply the kexts needed for everything to work on a Hackintosh. I didn't know that going in, and I didn't get a Mac until the M1 era. Now I'm pretty equally at home in Windows, Linux, and MacOS. As easy as it would be to throw Linux Mint on it and just use it forever, maybe it's finally time to crack into the Hackintosh effort and learn something new.