A what now? Surely you meant to say Taylor Ham.

I've been using it for years so I'm well aware of the issues. But I'm not making the claim it's an absolutely perfect OS and nothing will ever give you trouble... I'm saying it's better than 11. There's all sorts of problems with 11, especially if you don't want to buy into the entire Microsoft ecosystem and actually care about not seeing ads in your OS, having a far worse UI that makes everything less pleasant to use, invasive telemetry and other stuff that slows down your system. With 11 I'm *constantly* having to fight against undesired behaviors, tinker with settings, etc. I'll gladly take the minor issues with LTSC over that. No Store is a bonus btw. Had to jump through a couple hoops to get some Store stuff without it like the HEVC MF codec, but again, 11 is worse. I have to maintain VMs with it for making sure my code runs on it and the occasional debugging of an issue not happening on 10. And encounter the consumer versions on other people's systems... No idea how they tolerate it.

Because 11 is perfect and free of any reasons not to use it? I think most people define "best" as the the most upsides with the fewest downsides. Something need not be perfect to be better than alternatives.
To your specific complaints, it only doesn't play HEVC ootb if you're using a crappy player that needs the Media Foundation codec. Even if you are on 11, the available MF codecs are extremely limited; only a handful exist. Subtitle support is worse. Every user is inevitably going to run into something that won't play and have to get a better player. This is not just old formats, but new ones too.
Most people watch their media on TV or non-windows tablet. Or use Apple. Or are fine with using it in their browser. Legions of people clamoring for the Store version for their PC exist only in the minds of MS product managers. A quick search indicates newer Edge versions allow 4k in the browser too.
What "game related features" am I missing? People game on LTSC all the time. Gimmicks that just get in the way? That stupid Xbox service in enabled by default on LTSC too. Very, very few games take issue with it, maybe we could compare numbers for ones that don't run on 11 at all.
Oh, Lightroom is artificially limited to 22H2? Well clearly this is representative of fucking everything and everyone and no program ever made doesn't work on 11.
Yes there's niche cases where you need a specific Windows version, but that's *not* 11 more often than it is, and doesn't determine overall best.
And like most of the people here, I may be "some nerd", but that means I get roped into tech support for family, friends, etc, that aren't, all the time. People have more complaints and problems from 11 by far than the ones who let me set up LTSC.
Finally this is a fucking tech site, so nerds are the target audience. For people who actually read my post, they're not the non techies who can't install VLC or MPC. You sound like the kind of fanboy who turns telemetry to maximum on purpose.

"Windows 10" isn't going out of support in October. Windows 10 Home, Pro, and non-LTSC versions of Windows 10 are. The hands down best version of Windows 10, IoT Enterprise LTSC, remains under mainstream support until January 13th, 2032. I prefer 1809 over 21H2, and support for both Enterprise and IoT Enterprise LTSC of that receive mainstream support until January 9th, 2029.

Stop using Microsoft's scare tactic that falsely implies support for all Windows 10 is ending and people have no option besides Win11 or a short time of paid ESU. Not only do they have another choice, but that choice is for a version of Windows *better* than their current one (and certainly better than any Win11 version; I've tried 11 IoT Ent. LTSC and it's barely any better at all than pro; it leaves in way too much bloat and user hostile "features"; and of course can't fix the garbage UI). That's not a trivial time period either; it's hopefully long enough to repeat the pattern of a new, more acceptable version coming out in their good/bad/good/bad pattern (10 isn't as good as 7 but much better than 8).

But they get advance warnings and other privileges that let them make money off the crashes too by dumping shares and shorting it. Jackasses like Trump and Musk know who they have to tell before saying something that trashes stock value.

The PATRIOT Act powers that were passed for 'ticking-bomb terrorism' scenarios were used-- frequently-- from day 1 for routine drug investigations 99% of the time. Terrorism was somewhere in the odds and ends making up the last 1%. At best, you can expect these new powers to *maybe* notch a couple percentage points for routine CSAM possession, which at least is a malum in se, amoral crime. Use for terrorism will be a rounding error.

People record in restaurants all the damn time. What kind of places do you go to where someone pulls their phone out and immediately gets assaulted? You need to be obviously focused on others or particularly obnoxious about it to cause a scene.

There's absolutely zero reason you can't please both groups. The UI can be simple by default, with thoughtful choices for defaults, very limited options during setup, only core features represented by default in the UI. Then even a basic options page. Does it really make software *less* usable for the average person if buried under an advanced button, developer options , or even a config file, command line switch, etc , is the powerful features and customization options power users want? No. It's just an excuse to not offer those features so users conform to your needs and to play games with optimizing how many you can get to put up with less.

That may happen but it's because his supporters are already so hopelessly brainwashed and/or committed to the scam that it's true. He's a felon found liable for rape who led a coup attempt. He gained votes vs 2016. Whatever excuse for shooting someone he offered, his voters would accept, no matter how preposterous.

How can anyone who lived through covid compare something as valuable as toilet paper to some crappy kind of paper you can barely wipe with?

20-30 years ago... you mean the .com bubble?

You absolutely make an ephermal 1:1 copy. How do you think you can read without the light being "copied" into an optic nerve signal containing a complete representation of the data? And sometimes you remember whole quotes. I have a "1:1 copy" of many song lyrics I could reproduce verbatim; and some people have unusually excellent retention. If you had a technology to read that from my mind against my consent, it shouldn't be *I* have committed copyright infringement. Id say it's even fair use if you asked and I voluntarily wrote it down.
The bottom line to me seems to be there's a giant bucket of money from an unanticipated application of the right to learn from what you read, and people seeking a cut of that want to contort the reasoning and expand copyright to get it, with zero regard for how this "no right to make money from learning from what you read without permission" will be abused to hurt far more than the shitty AI leeches.

I think you're very, very confused about who's benefiting and who is losing rights from a massive expansion of copyright to say holders are entitled to a cut of the profit you make from learning from what you lawfully read and learned from. How is that meaningfully different than textbook publishers having the "final say" that you now owe them a cut of your salary because you used their copyrighted works in college? That should not be legal. A million times less so for things published to be read freely.
As a hobbyist programmer I rely on not having to pay someone because I copied their 10 line Stack Overflow answer into my 10000 line program. You're saying they should be able to come knocking if I dare sell my program.

Trashing the US economy and destroying our lead in science and education strengthens China. You conservative jackasses are handing them geopolitical and eventually military superiority, and kicking trans people out won't stop the latter. Get lost, anti-American traitor.

I've got my own criticisms of Discord (#1 being how it's replacing forums with unsearchable outside the app conversation quickly lost), but there's endless articles like most of those for every other social network too. What's the evidence Discord is worse? (Also not everywhere needs to allow porn, and the DMCA link you posted, good for them, that's a point in their favor over other networks that go far beyond the DMCA to let large copyright holders chill speech and suppress fair use).