My Debian system runs blazingly fast with 4 GiB RAM while running a 1 GiB VM.

GNOME is rapidly approaching OSX levels of bloat.

I had a coworker who used to add lodash and axios to like every project. I had to repeatedly reject PRs that pulled in 50MiB of code to do basic shit JavaScript already does. Like lodash is the source of insane amounts of security bulletins, and all it's being used for is one-line functions. Axios is a monstrosity that (poorly) duplicates the functionality of the web standard fetch API that already does everything you'll ever need.

Anyone using these packages deserves to get hacked.

Steam already does this for PCs, not just the Steamdeck. None of us are unique and beautiful snowflakes with completely unknown hardware and drivers. There's a matrix. If a game is popular, you are highly likely to find other people sharing a cell with you in the matrix.

World of Warcraft has been doing it for years

They need to implement BitTorrent or something. There's no reason everyone has to compile this shit themselves.

Upstream Debian has the same thing in at least one of their primary terminal apps.

I highly doubt this has to do with recent features. It more likely has to do with Mac shipping the BSD version of awk, rather than the GNU version.

"For those of you still grandfathered in with local accounts, this will be your future too, before long."

No, it won't. I use Pro edition.

Windows peaked with 2000. It most definitely does NOT get better over time.

Issue is overblown. It's essentially limited to things like Actions that aren't their core offering, but a way to drive Azure revenue. If your automated code checks and PR notifications are delayed by a couple hours, it's rarely that big of an impact. In addition, finding a slice of time with 90% uptime is not the same as operating with 90% uptime.

Stagnation for Microsoft is basically them shoveling money into their coffers. Innovation is where they fuck up.

Love how you left off the definitions that prove you're an illiterate moron.

It's a military term. You can't use etymologies to tell you what the definition is within a military context. It's essentially jargon.

Don't be intentionally obtuse.

I'm saying that within a military context, your etymology is wrong or at least very misleading.