Get a B&W laser printer. If you look at HP, avoid anything with "e" in the model number (those are the ones that require toner subscriptions) and get a business-oriented machine. The M501DN (for example) seems decent. If you need color and/or multi-function, look at Brother. I just got an MFC-L3780CDW for my parents (who wanted both color and faxing, for some reason), and they seem happy with it. Whatever you do, make sure to get a printer that supports both PCL and Postscript (or some emulated version of Postscript). This will ensure that the printer will continue to be useful even if manufacturer-supplied drivers are not available for some future platform or operating system.

Did they bother to survey the people whose taxes were used to pay for the UBI program?

This is all true, except for the predictability part. The per-user/month price could double next year, and your company would need to pay it until/unless they transition to a different product/service. The bigger win is that it makes it easier to keep track of licenses purchased and assigned to employees. It is much easier than keeping records of all license purchases and licenses in use. Subscriptions don't get lost or mis-assigned (at least not often). Either method is a risk for a business.

MS Word always struck me as being useless for pretty much everything. It's too complicated for writing letters to Grandma, but it's too simple for any actual typesetting or publishing work. For pretty much any given use case, there are better tools. (Admittedly, I haven't used it in years, but I can't see it being any less bloated or more refined.)

Probably more of a "we no longer have the magnetic tape where the source code is actually stored, and OCR'ing the printouts is error prone and requires too much effort" thing.

This. Or just put the popcorn in a metal bowl and put that in the oven for ~5 minutes at ~200 degrees (Fahrenheit, not Celsius). That will make it nice and crispy and not soggy like it would be right out of the kettle. Also, use clarified butter, not just regular melted butter, in order to avoid making the corn soggy.

In addition to the social experience, you get to see movies that are not available elsewhere and you get (if all goes well) better quality picture and sound than you would get at home.

Someone was bullshitting you. Licensing older films is not normally a problem (though, ironically, Disney won't license its animated films). I've booked repertory screenings for a few theatres and it is generally a matter of picking up the telephone and writing a check. They send you a 35mm print or DCP and you show it. Easy. The only thing that I can guess is that maybe you asked at a time when the Disney/20th Century Fox merger was still in progress (ID4 is a 20th Century Fox title). There was a period where booking Fox titles was somewhat difficult, but that time has passed.

Except that not everyone cares about those things, even people who would benefit from a supported OS. Disk encryption is only really relevant to laptops, and passkey are only really relevant to a subset of e-commerce transactions. What about the regular user who just wants to be able to run modern software in a supported configuration on a desktop computer?

It's do-able. The Samsung Xcover 6 is IP68 and has a headphone jack. And a swappable battery. Manufacturers are just too cheap and/or lazy to do this in more devices.

In the US, if you want a user-replaceable battery, you have exactly three choices: the TCL Ion X, the Samsung Xcover 6, and the Sonim XP10. I have the Samsung and it's pretty good.

Fair enough, if they would sell single-copy licenses for LTSC. I looked into buying it a few years ago, and doing so required buying licenses for a bunch of other Microsoft shit that I didn't want.

This, right here.

This. For a number of years in the mid-90s, the Microsoft Mouse was the best product that Microsoft sold. I never cared for their ergonomic keyboards, personally, but they were good, long-lasting products.

The least that they could have done is given it a user-replaceable battery. There aren't many such options on the market (in the US, at least) right now, so that would be a distinctive feature. As it is now, it's just another disposable phone.