It doesn't say Buy, it says Bury

We said that we will abandon ChatGPT's neurotic mode. What is it with these people?

You're walking in the desert, and you spot a tortoise upside down ...

Human responses would be
a) what's a tortoise?
b) which desert?
c) Did I bring sunblock? -- if you're from the Valley
d) Did I tell you about my mother?

So that Smith or Toby might have come from the mainland, as in Mainland something.

It's not about protectionism either. Most "us companies" that make routers are making them in china. Cisco even has a ton of chinese developers working in china.

This is about graft and giving "US Companies" a way to submit a bribe through on of numerous already established cahnnels (crypto, library, truth social stock, etc) for exemptions.

Continually proving it's just a bunch of unserious unqualified fools.

Cisco makes their routers in China and have a huge amount of chinese developers as well - it's not just the hardware.

What an idiotically backwards opinion. Where do people like you come from?

This has been my experience as well. It used to be pretty garbage, but now things seem fine. Most apps I wanted were even available, no need to search for alternatives.

What's baffling are the "people" like the person who replied to you saying your story is "made up." To who's benefit could it be to make up "I'm using a free operating system for free and it works" be?

After decades of using linux at work and home for servers, I finally switched to it on my primary desktop and laptop about a year ago. Sure, there are some annoyances, but certainly fewer than my corporate laptop with windows 11 on it. YMMV depending on what software you use but I really didn't need to find many "alternatives" because the bulk of what I use was already available. Linux Mint seems to "just work", down to making the fingerprint reader on the laptop functional and has a sane-ish desktop environment unlike the terrible GDE that it's Ubuntu downstream is built on. I shrunk and left the original windows install only because Lenovo doesn't seem to be able to get their act together on firmware updates in Linux. But at this point the laptop firmware works fine, power management is good, etc so I don't think there will be any reason to update it again, certainly not for linux support.

Remember?
1. Red means STOP
2. Yellow means SLOW
3. Green means GO

Oh, it is...my bad

In some remote cavern, the OS spits out these error messages, after the age was mistyped

Why are you not with husband yet?

the Van Damme test (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJU3PrHvxn4)

Do you normally have and publically voice opinions about things that you don't know anything about? There needs to be more shaming of this behavior.

You know, age 63 and up. They're the remaining people that can tell the time from an analog display, like a wrist watch.

Okay, Boomer signing off before this californi-age-verification creeps into those once-promising genealogy applications and f-all else besides.