There goes the neighborhood.

Well, it is a blue state.

Sorry, there is no love lost here. These companies have been pushing snake oil for long enough. Time to rid the yard of snakes.

Windows 11 was the best thing to ever happen for Linux.

All three options ... nope, nope, and NOPE.

This can all be traced back to marketing companies doing shitty and underhanded things on the Internet. The tech bros saw the fortunes to be had by doing the same thing. The Internet was supposed to be great and wonderful ... a benefit to mankind. So much for that.

Do you smell it? That's corporate bullshit in the making right there.

This is just stupidity on an entirely new stupid level. Microsoft should be held accountable for this breach to the fullest extent possible to send a message that this kind of stupidity will not be tolerated. Executives need to be fired over this one and possible national security charges sought. Microsoft has been acting like the CCP towards its users for way too long now. It looks like they are receiving first-hand training from the masters themselves.

I had the same issue with one of their keyboards. It died within warranty but when they got the keyboard they said a spill caused the damage, which was completely untrue. But they insisted and sent it back to me without repairing it. So I decided to stick with only old stock Model Ms from now on. They are actually fun to refurbish and retrobrite.

I have two refurbished Model Fs in service in my house right now. Sweet, sweet, clickety clack.

Nope

No

How many of the games do you actually "own"?

Over the years I have purchased a Synology DS213j with (2)2TB drives, a DS216j with (2)4TB drives, and a DS218j with (2)8TB drives. The services built into these inexpensive NAS' are all you need. The only issue I ever had was one of my 4TB drives died. But no worries, RAID to the rescue. I replaced the drive and was back up after RAID rebuilt the new drive. I always purchase a third drive as a spare if and when needed. As time progressed and I needed more space I simply purchased another NAS and moved the files to the larger NAS. I keep the older NAS' online for moving large files around my network or temp space when working on computers. I've been doing this for about 15 years now with no issues. (Yes, I realize that Synology became ass-bags recently so I'll need to choose wisely when purchasing my next NAS.)

I'm just afraid that I'm going to see Tillie dancing around and giggling like an idiot in every episode. Ugh.