It's going up another 0.0000001 this year when I kick Windows to the curb.
Advertising, Recall, dark patterns? No thank you. It's my computer, not yours.

You make a good point. But my concerns are around privacy (will my phone be confiscated? social media examined? fingerprints taken?), and personal safety (will I be detained?, shipped somewhere?). For me, politics takes a back seat to these items.

35 year ago I was admitted to the U.S. under the NAFTA (now CUSMA) agreement as a Technical Specialist, because I had significant experience with databases. That led to me going green-card and getting married on an American. I lived there happily for 17 years, doing software work. It's so sad to see that welcoming, exciting America disappear down the drain of facism. To my American friends: He's destroying your place in the world. You are no longer the shining city on the hill. These days, I would not cross into the US for anything.

One could use heat exchangers such that the cooling water and the sea water never intermix.

First, cosmic rays are what you blame when you can't find the bug. And second, if cosmic really are to blame, then they should have rolled back to the previous version of the sun.

Good question. I'm delaying because I also write music, and my music software isn't available on Linux. I suspect others are in my position, having that one app that isn't available and it's data file incompatible with any completing products. I'm locked in :-(

Of course it is. Every problem (including our ineptitude) is an opportunity.

"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain". (engineer Montgomery Scott, aka 'Scotty')

I'm a developer with 4x years of experience. Windows has been my desktop operating system since DOS 3.0 days, and have no desire to move off of Windows 10. I didn't, that is, until now. There's no way I'm letting Windows 11 into my personal life, so I got the free 1-year security extension, I'll buy another if I can, and then, if that AI Recall spyware is still on Windows, I'm leaving. Probably to Linux.

'Round and 'round,
The cash money goes,
Where it stops,
Nobody knows.
When it blows up,
Investors will cry.
And AGI dreams,
Will finally die.

That factory is a horror show. They raise flying pigs in captivity and then grind them up with a bunch fiberglass to make flying cars. Guess what noise the horn makes?

We Canadians eliminated the penny in 2013. But, like most other Canadians, I have a box of the damn things in the corner of my bedroom. Yeah, we don't stamp out new ones, but we still have lots of them kicking around.

DST... Standard... who cares! Just pick one and stick with it. A year from now everyone will forget they cared.

Of course Windows will now run on XBox - you only want to write that telemetry code once!

What's AMD to do when the gov't refuses to pay a 1 billion dollar bill on the whims of a fickle leader? Might not be worth the risk. Safer to have many smaller clients than one uber-honker that can sink the whole ship.