I've been on /. long enough to remember when most people here leaned libertarian. Ian Freeman would've been celebrated as a hero. I'm shocked at the current unquestioning acceptance of whatever the Establishment media says. Sad.

Here's a different take on this story and a deep dive into Ian Freeman.

Most don't use headphones at all with their cellphones.

Doesn't everyone just have a collection of apps you need and stick to those? I can't even remember when I bought an App. Even free apps only get downloaded when absolutely needed.

Indeed, that is why anyone with a clue wouldn't make important (hell, any... ) devices on a Cloud Service. I, and I hope nobody with a clue, wouldn't accept a firewall that is cloud dependent.

Mine beeps but also gives me an estimate for the time needed. That is useful. I just set an alert on my phone based on that time. Not hard.

Amazon Prime also allows you to download the content. (At least on a phone/tablet you can, I don't know for computers. Probably not.)

I don't expect support from any vendor on any platform. It's that simple.

Support? I use Debian. I do my own support and use "the Internet" for that. My SteamBox is literally Debian 11, booting into a very lightweight DE, autostarting the Steam client in Big Picture mode... all of the info to do that, is available online.

Try VueScan. (Satisfied customer here)

It's "PC Master race" after all, eh?

/me ducks and runs...

Many budget laptops still come with 1366x768. Many good second hand business machines do too.

But we all know how true that is, given they claimed the same about Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer is ... gone. Proving their lies.

I would formulate this differently: "Microsoft is very determined to sell Minecraft Education licenses to schools all over the world."

I have, client uses them for their contact center. It’s an interesting service - softphone-based, with some half decent call routing and intelligence features.