Remember when you could, in System 6.0.7, and still in System 7, copy a file to a floppy (in MultiFinder), then from the floppy, then back to the floppy, and so on for a few minutes, and your Mac would hard crash. Remember?

As a tech I had a few tricks to crash Macs without any software. Just stupid Mac tricks. Not overflowing a disk, either, that was a stupid Windows trick.

Macs were not and are not yet infallible. They enjoy a huge advantage over Windows - control of the hardware. Windows suffers a multitude of hardware drivers, written by who-knows, and every significant attempt by Microsoft to insulate the kernel from bad driver behavior failed up to Windows 8. Mostly.

But it's sport to bash Windows. Has been since about Linux kernel 2.0, which if you were around then, you know was the pot calling the kettle black.

Windows has many flaws to hang your beanie on, but considering the requirements, it's remarkable. Not as remarkable as Linux, which somehow has become so despite (virtually) no paid developers. And I've used Linux since Slackware something like 0.9, which was not 'officially' distributed, and sort of worked. But it hooked me on Linux. Using Windows since the Mach 20 board and Windows 2.0, I've suffered but persisted. Felt bad for WordStar, WordPerfect for Windows, and some other software that never quite made it. Anyone remember Jazz?

Still, bashing Windows is easy. Anyone care to be similarly honest about X11?

Care to share actual metrics with us?

They dare not let you speak the truth, Rotsa Ruck telling the captives they are imprisoned. They were born there.

'en$(#@tify'
'overcharge'
'zero choice'
'rid myself of that filth'

Keywords that others use to excoriate the streaming services. Good luck with your fiber Internet service.

As if solar and wind plants are substantially easier/cheaper/longer lived than hydro.

Ignoring the cost/kWH of construction, wind generation requires more than a lot of maintenance, and solar similarly. The relatively massive upfront cost of hydro is offset (or amortized, I forget) by the longevity of most dams, associated infrastructure, and generators. Mind you, the hidden costs of hydro power include displacement of the people who lived in the impoundment, the other life such as wildlife, forests etc.

No enterprise of Man is without impacts, noticeable, hidden, and future, and the responsible equation is the cost-benefit equation. Real costs, real benefits. Forward-looking.

Yes. There are some who run on ARM64 and would use this.

It is the foundation of Communism that social and economic classes deprive the 'lower' classes of their rightful share of economic output.

It is the effect of Communism that, having been instituted, a new class is formed, that of ruler. And they operate to their own benefit, usually with little benefit for any other class.

Unlike Capitalism, Communism will resort to physical violence when the rulers are threatened. Capitalism has this interesting feature of self reinvention. New classes spring up where opportunity arises. Though in this context, 'classes' is more like ' members', since classes are generally not so fluid.

But it is an old trope, somewhat that the rich get richer. As old as the urge of Man to rule others, and such urge should resisted at every opportunity.

You are pure frakking spam. In fact you are the current more offensive form of spam.

And you should know better. So go flush your workstation and get the virus out, or repent.

Mac I've been interested in buying in 30 years.

Nope, I didn't buy that one either...

Citation, please. I'm reading the keyboard with Touch ID is just a hardware purchase, no subscription.

Prove it, prove me wrong, and watch the mod points valorize

You've overlooked the obligatory Microsoft- or Windows-bashing.

Remember when iot was 'Winblows' or 'WIndoze'? And those responses to questions about software that did-not-exist in the FOSS universe, as if berating you for doing things that could not be done on Linux (BCD being the red-headed stepchild of FOSS at the time) was useful.

Sure felt good, though. For them. I lost interest when my Novell answers were greeted with 'NT Server roools!' drivel. You can imagine the catcalls for Token-Ring help.

FTL drives are stupid and dumb. From there on, interstellar Sci-Fi is all stupid and dumb, and you either come for the story, or you come for the lulz. 'Believable' is something i define as 'willing to suspend disbelief...

But I mostly go for the popcorn. So long as the flick isn't dependent on gore and woke fantasy I'm probably ok.

BTW, you gotta go see EPIC. It is.

Concerts are too expensive for me.

I've ripped my CDs in several formats. And held in several different spaces, including local.

Buying more CDs at yard sales etc. is my filling in the library. Of course desirable music is harder and harder to find, but I had a substantial library before streaming was possible.

But lots of us do not want to bother with ripping media to be enable it for our portable use, with the device of our choice.

Perhaps what Spotify has figured out is that I, for one, do not like what they *want* me to like. I let DJ X choose sometimes, and the selections are bizarre. They are selling me either what they have, of what they can sell cheap. I wonder of the Beatles catalog gets more revenue per play than today's new cute saccharin.

So the root cause is bad/missing input sanitation? Or is the defect the inability of the vendor to maintain the code to current standards and needs?