I have trust issues with usb keys. Never story your only copy on 5 squared mm of flash.

It is that a single mp3 or photo takes 3 3.5" floppies to store, else i'd take a floppy over an usb key any day.

Considering someone will run Windows 11 in whatever will be the equivalent of javascript and a webbrowser in 2049.

I see this in my country too. And while it's true that energy-related companies are having soaring profits, and maybe you could ask them to reduce margins or increase the taxes, it's not where the big money goes. The big profits go to oil/gas producing countries and speculators.

First it was reading. Then came the TV. Then came computer games. Then blue light. Now it's social media.

For some reason, researchers seem to be very concerned about the children's sleep habits over the years. Does it help? No, cause kids stay kids. And they are hungry for information, day and night and apparently mostly at night when they are supposed to sleep, and not at day when they are supposed to be eager for facts at school.

Adults seem frustrated kids are not malleable as they wish. Maybe consider just giving them more attention instead of more research if it bothers you.

That may have worked in the 20th century. But in 2022 a computer that plays chess (better than a human) could easily be so small, it'd literally fit into your shoe, ear or tooth without anyone able to discover short of x-ray equipment.

We got to the point that people want to send e-mail with their C64.

Grow up. The desktop is just what it is - a desktop application. It's not magic. It's not an OS. Besides, that 'desktop' is moving to a browser-oriented environment, the more we are connected.

The Linux desktop has been fine since, well, since Windows 95. More or less. You need to seek into another direction. It's not `the desktop` that's holding Linux back from mainstream.

I'm not sure why you complain. Pay-to-win is a horrible concept that no-one likes, except a couple of game companies that make money with it. Yet, pay for a 4k upgrade as service sounds perfectly reasonable to me, as you'll use more hardware and bandwidth to do so, and may value the result worth the cost as gamer.

Not really. Nine times out of ten they are referring to a website. People are pretty clueless what they talk about anyways - not limited to tech or computer-related topics either.

Apart that, i'm also on the team that considers 'app' an ugly abbreviation. Has very little to do with `present`, unless you mean by present `clueless millennials`.

Quite sure that would be the case after Microsoft acquires it.

As customer, i always saw software piracy as a no-go. But as we see more and more silicon valley millionaires and billionaires, while getting ripped off by `internet` - advertisers, games, social media, it appears everyone is making a coin and becoming rich apart us - the simple user.

And as a result, me myself included, am having less and less problems with piracy happening. I prefer open source for reasons. I don't blink twice for someone 'borrowing' a photoshop, autocad or borland license. And why would i. It's not my problem and i don't feel sorry for the 'them'.

And as long as that monetary divide deepens, the 'problem' will persist. And is it even a problem - making billions and complaining it could be a few % more if those consumers weren't such thieves... Y right.