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Comment Take off the rose tinted smart glasses bud. (Score 5, Interesting) 39

rolled out as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8 users

That's not quite how I remember it. Wasn't it more of a forced, unrequested, unannounced whole O/S upgrade that could only be stopped by a registry hack or installing Gibson's Never10?

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Comment Re:Cooperation Governments needed (Score 1) 45

America has issues, but most won't be an issue in 3 years

Do you really believe you are going to get a free and fair election in 2028?
And even if you did, that MAGA would step down and accept the results, having tried to alter and ignore their last electoral loss, but this time with armed troops permanently patrolling D.C., with every American Flag Officer publicly informed by their CinC that disloyal U.S. citizens are the new Enemy #1, And the Judge Advocate General and every senior officer in their corps (the people who tell soldiers what is and isn't a legal order) replaced by Trump loyalists?

Comment Re:And before the 21st century, since 1950s... (Score 1) 83

Kids who sat on their ass in front of the tv too long had worse health including significantly higher odds of depression, obesity, ...

Nonsense. TV was watched as a family event with compromises being made as to what was being watched and with continuous interaction with fellow family members during the shows. This is opposed to the solitary way social media is consumed. Kids didn't have 24/7 access to algorithmically tailored personal programming - nobody did.

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