I'm coming at you from an HP laptop I bought this year and have been happy with. But I bought a printer this year and after hearing that they are acting like such bastards about it I am very glad I didn't buy HP.

I bought a Brother double sided laser printer for $80 or $90 dollars off of Amazon. It also functions as a scanner, and third party cartridges for it from Amazon cost about $10-$15 and have worked great so far. I have been extremely happy with it. The double sided printing has been very helpful for some of my kids' school projects this year, and my wife and I had some paperwork we needed to scan earlier this year. The software for the thing is a little bit jerky (it asked if I want it to check for updates, and when it does it "helpfully" tells me about other software I might want), but that's nowhere near as bad as what HP is apparently doing with their printers.

Well then it doesn't really destroy Raspberry Pi, then, does it?

It's nice when people express an interest in my life, but when they start demanding information it gets creepy, and when they start using it as a justification for violating my rights it has become abusive.

I think most people understand that the phrase "putting customers first" means "We strive to serve our customers well, with the expectation that we are going to be well-paid for it." So this complaint doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Amazon isn't necessarily going to offer me the lowest prices in the world. They aren't giving away stuff for free, after all. And I want them to profit so they will be around to serve me tomorrow, because I do feel like they serve me well.

Decisive advantage over what? The customers? Is shopping a competitive experience between the buyer and the seller where one only gains at the expense of the other? This reads like an attempt to alienate a merchant and its customers. It's probably not actual astroturfing by a competitor, but one could be forgiven for wondering.

Linking without permission... Linking without permission? Linking without what? This phrase doesn't even make sense.

Yes, I know. One of these days, in my copious free time, when I'm not developing all the things I'm developing now... :) I'm not complaining, and I understand why they aren't presently releasing for Windows.

I took LibreOffice because it's what was on ninite.com. I actually used to love Gnumeric and Abiword, but they aren't having windows releases any more. I have the last Windows releases of them installed, but more and more I use LibreOffice.

But if I keep my timezone set to UTC, what happens?

This. This sums up the truth in two short succinct sentences.

I don't care enough about cars to remember their names. I just need four wheels and a seat. I'm lucky if I remember the name when I really need to know it like communicating with a mechanic or my insurance.

And I'm happy that way!

That's pretty much all I need in an OS :)

Yeah, I went and looked it up after I posted that and found the total number of humans who have ever lived is estimated at about 108 billion. Oops. That's what I love about Slashdot, your mistakes are immortalized, leaving you no choice but to just own up to it. :)

Trillions of women in history have eagerly cared for babies who produced real excrement and it did not dissuade them. I'm pretty sure this campaign is a struggle against a seriously deep instinct, here.

Ah, that's what I was missing, thanks.

They are also close to sending the message that they intend to enforce their rules across the whole world. Which I guess accords with the rest of the US's imperialist message.

I don't understand why someone in Ukraine is liable for violating the US's stupid copyright rules.