Wow - that page reads like a step-by-step guide on how to violate the Robinson-Patman Act. Too bad we haven't had any real consumer protection enforcement in the US since the 1970s.

My 13 year old FreeBSD box runs just fine. I don't have to throw away my hardware, and buy new, just because Microsoft, or Apple, decides it's time.

I don't care much for the planned obsolescence model that keep people on an upgrade treadmill, for the sake of "features" that nobody wants.

I don't care much for the mountains of e-waste the upgrade treadmill causes either.

"Why did they make him CEO if they know so clearly that he can't be trusted?"

'I never expected the leopard to eat my face! [just the faces of those marks and chumps]'

People were saying the same thing in the 1960s, and ever since.
And yet, here we are.

In 1968 the US population was about 200 million, and the world population was about 3.5 billion. That is the year the book "The Population Bomb" was published.

For decades to follow overpopulation was a huge issue. China enacted the one child per family law. There were public service advertisements urging people to have smaller families. Articles and books about "Deep Ecological" insisted that we were doomed if we did not lower the population.

Now we have twice the population. But as soon as we make the slightest bit of progress to lower the population, everybody starts screaming about the under-population crises.

I am running FreeBSD with MATE.
Firefox seems to be using about 1.5GB - just running slashot.

49% of how much memory?
I am running FreeBSD with MATE. I am using firefox with two tabs open. I am also running jellyfin, and some other background stuff. And I am also running a terminal, and looking at "top" process.
My total active memory being used is 675MB. I have a total of 12GB Ram, and I have about 5200MB free.
Firefox does seem to be quite a hog.

Solar panels are the end product. If wars were to be fought, it would over the materials used to make solar panels.
BTW: I think almost all solar panels and wind turbines are made by China. Other countries could make them, but it would not be easy, and it could not happen overnight.

You mean the bird blenders that are also killing whales and dolphins?

As I understand it "renewable energy" means clear cutting forests and burning trees for energy.
Per unit of energy produced, burning trees is far more polluting that burning natural gas, or even diesel. Then you have the destruction of the forests.

Seafile would probably work. Simple and fast. Not overloaded with useless, often broken, plugins.

I can hardly believe any sizable establishment would use NextCloud.
NextCloud might be okay for home use, or a very small business.

Don't get me wrong. I am not complaining about the idea open source developers being paid.

But very few people use open source, in any serious way. If they had to pay for it, a lot less people would use it. Eventually, it would not be worth maintaining.

There are some apps that only run on Windows. Also, Windows is the standard in government and corporations.