Uh, as a business you can do a fair bit. As you mentioned, you care fire the aggressor, or at least warn him that he's going to be in the unemployment line unless he cuts the bullshit out. There's really *NO* need for any employee to rip into another, exempting where somebody fucked up royally at a job-related task. That's why you're the boss. It's a privilege and a responsibility.

As of a year or two ago, most of my (at least older) Windows games started working quite well.

I've setup a PXE server for which clients can run quite a few games, including various games running under wine .Easy ol'-fashioned LAN party!

Roomates or co-living is one situation where - to some extent - making some allowances makes sense. Generally if you're sharing close living quarters, it makes sense that people would want to be of either different genders or orientations.

"There is literally no right or wrong time to meet a significant other"

Well, I would say that when the potential significant other is an underage fan, there's probably NO right time...

"who the FUCK said that ANYONE wants a semi truck that can accelerate that fast"

Pretty much anyone who is stuck behind the semi which is blocking the left lane while passing the slightly slower semi that's blocking the right lane?
How about the rig that needs to cross a large intersection that will already have the light turning red by the time he's 75% of the way through...

With combined torque and acceleration, there are actually quite a number of situations where this can be a major benefit.

Indeed, I see little wrong with Micro or Loot so long as it's not tied to functionality (pay-to-win, pay-to-play). It's been proven over and over that people are willing to do the loot/micro thing for hats, skins, and unique visuals that in no way affect your ability to progress or win the game (and weren't advertised as part of the game). IMHO that seems a good balance to me.

If EA allowed you some freaking tie-fighter decals or the ability to buy certain custom character appearances, it's cool. If you have to P2W to get the abilities/weapons or stuff that was advertised as part of the core game, not core.

Even having people collect items to build a Darth "skin" would be not too bad assuming one could still have the same jedi/sith abilities without, and as long as it wasn't advertised as being part of the game...

Remember how Command & Conquer: Renegade was received when Westwood tried the opposite? Don't even think about it. There is no way to "improve" the gameplay.

I don't recall renegade, but "Starcraft: Ghost" was well-received in concept, even though the project ultimately failed.I think it could still be doable today with a rainbow-6 cross Assassin's Creed type game mechanic.

We already have a lot of book series which are spinoffs of or tied to game series, so I really see no reason one couldn't make an FPS-type game based on an RTS, or vice-versa. Blizzard's Overwatch could have had the same characters in something similar to LoL/DOTA.

Similarly, something like a new "Mass Effect" game could be great, so long as they have a good plot-line but to some extend honor their predecessors. ME2 changed how various game mechanics worked and did just fine. ME3 was good up to the end at which at lot of people feel it failed on plot

Nintendo has actually mixed up their core offerings a fair bit in some cases, be the the 2d->3d change with Metroid, or Zelda going from a 2d top-down to pseudo-3d, to full 3d, to 3d open-world. Being that BOTW is arguably one of the best games out in the last year or so, it's hard to say that you can stay within the say formula but still be "different" enough to be appealing.

What I'm still surprised about is that the "convertible" devices still haven't caught on: Something where you drop your phone/tablet/etc in a dock and then it attaches to accelerated hardware.

I guess only of the problems is that most mobile devices and ARM and/or Android/iOS based which doesn't exactly lend to a great desktop experience. Still, most mobile devices are getting beefy enough that they can run some fairly heavy apps/games if you add a little horsepower when docked. Maybe something like a Switch for a general purpose PC/mobile device.

It's not just a responsiveness thing though, there are also RSI considerations. Keys with resistance reduce finger velocity as they "click", which is why some people who do a lot of typing prefer the old clickity-clack or cherry-style keys.
Touch devices are pretty much full velocity for every tap, followed by an abrupt termination when you hit the virtual "key". Basically, it's like drumming your fingers against a wall. That's not particularly good health-wise in the long term.

It also assumes no back-doors by an already unhinged SysAdmin...

I think this was probably supposed to be "inappropriate" language, rather than "inadequate"

Well, a lot of distros put the primary user(s) a group that allows access to external/plugabble storage devices, which would also include external hard drives.

Possibly, but for a long time stuff that you download from a Torrent actually ran *better* than what you purchased, mainly due to being stripped of harmful DRM. I know plenty of people who used to buy stuff, shelf it, and then go for the downloaded version.

There's also stuff like CD ISO's. For a long time computers came with everything they needed to get back to their initial state in the form of driver and OS discs. Later, it became a "create a recovery image" option which let you burn a CD to reinstall. Then it became a "recovery partition" on the disk. That last option was convenient from a speed perspective, but when one of the most common failures was a dead drive, completely useless.
It was similarly a pain for drive upgrades.

So what happens when you have a computer with a failed drive that's otherwise OK, a legit OS serial # and a replacement drive, but no OS disc to install. Well you hop on a torrent site and grab your OS disk so you can get your computer back.Again, these are computers that had a perfectly legit OS license, but no media was included.

Alternately, computers which sold with massive bloatware were in a similar boat. Even if you used the official OS restore you'd end up with a bunch of shitty additional/unwanted stuff taking up memory and disk space, possibly a backdoor if you include the Lenovo escapades but almost always antivirus, toolbars, "update checkers" etc etc.

I've actually being wondering about whether I can run messenger on my phone now that the permissions model is better honed. Why would this not work if you deny the app contacts/location permissions?

Except with oauth, you should not be entering your credentials anywhere except Google/FB's site. That's part of the point of it.

If you're not on google.com or facebook.com, don't enter the password.