> Why aren't you steering them to chromebooks so they don't need support from you?

I do.

But what I find is the people with Windows machines end up just using their cellphones for everything instead of bothering to learn about the unknown that is a Chromebook. So their old Windows computers end up just sitting there unused.

Hard to believe anyone can be surprised by this news.

I am the 'computer guy' to a large number of friends, family members, and neighbors. Over the past few years every single person I've helped with their computer problems has used their Microsoft computer for nothing more than email, webbrowsing, pictures, and movies. They used their computers less and less each year with more and more of the tasks listed above on their cellphones.

Long gone are the days when almost every person needed to have Internet Explorer to do any sort of online banking. Any consumer company in 2018 is making sure that their services and content is a first class experience on Android and iOS.

Exacerbating many of the people I help is that not only do they have no use of Windows apps their Windows systems get trashed by viruses or spyware or other random problems while their cellphones just work.

All of these people would be better served by a Chromebook or something similar but almost none of them are aware of what they are. The demand would be even greater if these people understood that all of the problems they constantly are coming to me with are exactly what the Chromebook was designed to solve.

Absolutely nauseating to see the garbage rag Washington Post trying to do damage control for this now thankfully dead war criminal all because of Trump.

Mccain is personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Libyan and Syrian people by funding and arming tens of thousands of murderous jihadits to play his sick geopolitical games.

Way to go Camembert!

Keep spamming posts! You are really showing those alt-right manbabies who are just threatened by strong womyn.

What a hateful and sad little troll.

Why would a toxic SJW like AmiMoJo care?

Women, Minorities, Disabled, etc are nothing more than props for their virtue signaling.

I'm sure the women who were handed these winning awards are overjoyed to have their work used as nothing more than tools for wacko SJWs to own some boggeyman called 'teh alt-right'.

The Hugo winners from the 1950s until a few years ago when SJWs hijacked the award were a good way of expanding your reading list. There definitely were a number of duds and books that did not hold up over the years. But overall the winners were quite worth of the praise even if it reflected popular consensus.

With the rise of every reader now being able to voice their opinions to the entire science fiction reading world the relevance of awards is greatly diminished.

In 2018 a Hugo Award is little more than the equivalent of the infamous Twitter Blue Checkmark that just signifies nothing more than your book has the right politics by the toxic SJW mobs.

Fuck off clown.

Hope Perens gets sued into the poor house.

He has been a leech on the software development world for far too long.

I am glad companies aren't being bullied into his trademark extortion racket over the industry term Open Source.

Everything outsells the dead Xbox. That is not news.

But a 60 dollar item outselling something that costs 300 dollars like the PS4? Yawn.

Let us know when the NES Classic sells 80 million worldwide like the PS4.

"I just looked up the financials of the FreeBSD Foundation. In 2017 they had a fundraising goal of $1.25m. They didn't meet that goal - they hit a bit below 1.1m. Still, in the first quarter of 2017, they managed to get 425K in contributions: https://web.archive.org/web/20... [archive.org] Compare this to first quarter 2018. Only 189K in contributions: https://www.freebsdfoundation.... [freebsdfoundation.org] We're 7 months into 2018. According to the counter on their website, they have currently have received about 303K in contributions. That's less than they managed to secure in the first three months of 2017! In 2016 they managed to obtain 1.54m in contributions - well above the 1.25m target that year as well. Does anybody have an idea why contributions seems to be drying up? Has the accounting practice simply changed? Do you think the FreeBSD Foundation will reach the target this year?"

This isn't just a drop in funding, it is a complete disaster. Who would have thought turning a well running open source operating system project into an ideological shitshow would have such dramatic consequences. At least FreeBSD has DTrace and ZFS as technologies to keep developers and users from continuing to flee the failing project...right?