...provided it runs, e.g. because it was started automatically, which it cannot in our setup. So I'd have to start it. If I find it.

Fixed that for you. ;)

Also, on a more serious note, I know it runs counter to modern day TV, but I would argue the very last thing Trek needs to be is a franchise. TNG was novel because it was all that was on the air at the time. By the time they got to ENT the franchise was burned out and ratings reflected it. I have a lot of issues with NuTrek, but I do really enjoy SNW, can find redeeming things about DSC, but if they try to make it into the Trek version of the Marvel Universe or copy what Disney has done with Star Wars they're going to burn it the fuck out.

Greenshot can be launched via PrtScn too....

Nope, that's not the program. Unfortunately the Windows-internal screenshot program is inferior and not suitable to my needs.

That they found an easier way to spy on their citizens.

This is such a dumb article. "I can't find a use for the iPad." So what. I can't find a use for a bra. But my wife sure can. And she also drives an iPad as her primary computing device. She does email on it, browses the web, video calls the kids, shops on amazon, reads books, on and on. For her it is the only device she needs. LOTS OF PEOPLE FIT THAT DEMOGRAPHIC.

Some people want a pickup, some people want a convertible miata. The world does not revolve around you!!

Well, one of them broadcasts his crimes pretty publicly, via social media, and the other wrote a book about it....

It would if they had money. See: Simpson, Orenthal James and Trump, Donald John.

Disagree. My iPad fills two niches: I read on it, a lot, both eBooks and general web browsing. I could do these things on my significantly smaller iPhone but that hurts both my eyes and wrists after a while. The other niche, streaming video, on the road and at home when away from the TV (e.g., in bed, out on the porch, etc.) Streaming video isn't as fun on an iPad as it is on a large 4K television but I can't take the 4K TV with me on a flight or intercity rail ride, and while the iPhone could do this, the iPad is the perfect balance between screen size and portability.

Another minor niche, video calls with friends. I tend to prefer an actual laptop for this use case but if it's unavailable or I'm too lazy to go get it, the iPad is better than the phone.

I'll confess I don't understand the folks using iPads as a laptop replacement. I get illustrators who use them, I have a contingent of those at work I support, but the road warriors I see in airports using iPad Pros as a laptop replacement, uhh, why?! It's just as large as a real laptop -- hell, some of the extreme iPads are LARGER -- and a lot less flexible.

Are you really using the program you can launch with a single keypress (PrtScn) as an example of why the UI is terrible?

They can try but I can tell you as a consumer the deletion of CarPlay/Android Auto would be a deal breaker for me. I suspect many people feel the same way. Very few people are interested in Yet Another Subscription that duplicates functionality they already have.

... about this is that they are alienating opinion leaders like me. Of all Megacorps Google had the best reputation with me mostly because their business model doesn't involve keeping people locked into shitty software and they thus were big on supporting open source projects like browser engines, JS runtimes, free open fonts, Dart, Flutter etc.

I wonder how much they can keep this up. Their search engine is still their primary cash cow but if some bean counter is dumb enough to milk that to death this might be the end of Google.

Is that like the old Aussie saying "Try to catch the snake that bit you, we need it for our statistics to know which species killed you"?

I'd rather try to invent something that makes kid spit those things out instead of swallowing them.

If we give it a couple generations, evolution could take care of that.

It's not critical to my daily workflow. That's the problem. Case in point, the snapshot program. I need it whenever I find something worth reporting and need to do a screenshot. What's its name? I know it's in the "graphics" program submenu, and I remember the color of its icon, but what was its name? Somethingshot. But what was that something, because search for "shot" sure won't produce what I'm looking for. What colorful name did their marketing department come up that really made a lot of sense in the mind of a coke-fuelled markedroid's head but certainly won't in a normal mind?