"Enhanced." But for who's benefit?

There are moving parts in all the cameras, you know, for being abot to focus.

Yes, there is a new contract created every month. Feel free to quote Italian conditions, but in the US a contract requires consideration, which occurs on a monthly basis.

In any case, it doesn't affect the ethics, and Netflix gives ample time for a customer to cancel renewals.

Nope. It simply renews every month (and that's a convenience, not a contract) unless you cancel. There is no contract beyond a month.

>you cant just unilaterally change a contract even with "30 days notice"

Whoosh. If the contract only lasts 30 days, you can change the terms for a future contract.

Forget about the law. Ethically, Netflix is in the right. Someone signs up and pays for a month. They get a month of service. That continues month to month. At some point, Netflix tells them "it will cost more next month, if you don't want to pay more, you can simply cancel and not pay." There's no force or deceit. Continuing to pay and then coming back later and suing Netflix is an attempt at theft, plain and simple. The law is unethical.

Betterbird doesn't solve all of Thunderbird's problems, but it *does* act a little more sanely in many respects, and the search works a bit better on my machines.

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The problem with the vast amount of hardware turf that Microsoft covers is different from say, Apples, because Apple highly controls their hardware platforms, and Microsoft by its nature, cannot.

Add in driver components, software legacies, and Microsoft users continue to pay this tax, generation after generation. So indeed these issues ARE similar.

When Oracle updates key functionality, they risk a domino effect, just as Microsoft does. The QA feedback loop can help, but all old code must become crusty because of physics. Reinventing the core code then causes its own ripple effects.

There are ways to fight this, at the risk of business partners going away-- the hardware makers and software vendors with huge installed bases.

Every time a change is made, it would be wonderful to do regression testing. That's why there are "insider" programs, the little beta site for these changes because regression testing today is impossible because the installation platforms are too diffuse.

There is truth in the aphorism, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall.".

Instead of laws, how about parents take responsibility for parenting?

Why would you presume *that* from what was written?

Come back when you understand how it works.

>Why is it the business of my OS vendor how old I am?

*nix supports fields for full name, location, phone numbers, email address, password, etc. Do you think your OS vendor knows what they are?

>Instead, you could use flags: unverified, verified-minor, verified-adult.

And what if someone comes of age tomorrow or a year from now, you insensitive clod?

Have you ever noticed why no one celebrates Patch Tuesday in the pub? It's because they're waiting by consoles waiting for stuff to break.

Windows, client and server, are a house of cards. This goes far back in history. The citations you challenge are each provably wrong. Ever wonder why the cloud isn't rife with Windows servers? There's a reason for that. Cloud Native Windows is almost an oxymoron. Linux and to a lesser extent, BSD, have taken over that space.

In so many ways, Windows is now a legacy data OS in data centers and for good reason. It's developer community has all but collapsed. It's backwards compatibility with other house-of-cards platforms like dot-net have put ball-and-chains around its neck.

The additions of tawdry pre-release-in-production AI with Co-Pilot causes new train wrecks each and every day.

No serious services developer uses Windows as a new development platform. The metaphors you diss are a dodge. You know exactly what the remarks are about. Windows continues to be a sieve for security. Linux and BSD are far more difficult to breach, correctly configured-- and it doesn't take much.

As a developer, if you are one, Microsoft is putting you to the pasture. Have fun eating oats.