China has some walls, I have heared.

Can't agree on "Microsoft actually does well is backwards compatibility". Have you seen the hoolahoops to jump through to get some old game to work on current Windows? Or old printer, from the days when they didn't break after couple of years. Also regarding Word, I remember when USB sticks came around and MS changed some .doc format - every second coworker got confused when one Word version could not open others file. I had Openoffice then and could not fathom all the fuss, it just opened all of them.

... how do you sue someone, nobody knows who and where is? I understand, somebody had to start doing it. And we probably owe Google a thank you. This just sounds impossible.

I thought Hydroglobe was not a device but organisation or dataset. Can this be explained, what do they mean here?

It is forbidden to give my bank authentication info to anyone. And even impossible, as it is not just a password. I was unaware that somewhere (USA) such stupid activities exist, and then are accepted as normal. But security practices there are crazy weird. Like 20 years back in other places.

So until now my financial info was shared for free, but from now on it will be sold? Shouldn't some people go directly behind bars for all this?

The only problem - keeping power through more compliance and less curiosity. The herd should be calm, disinterested and in the fenced area.

5K fine for them is not even like 1 cent for me. They would be laughing for such fine, no consequences for them when they pay it. Does not dent or even scratch their revenue line.

Haha, they revealed the actual reason. Sadly this is a huge step backwards regarding peoples privacy. Sad that they are in the position to do this invasion of so many desperate peoples lives. No alternatives AFAIK for places to find your future significant other.

Haha, Internet Explorer entered the room while eating glue. Will you also ask for a filename of 8 dot 3?

Fair deal. I am fighting this too. Switched to Linux on work PC some years back, but IT goes more and more MS direction unintentionally creating various hurdles for minority, Linux users. And say what they will, MS is far from loving Linux, their acts contradict their words. But we are slowly getting there, at the moment still as second class citizens in corp world.

And what exactly is holding you back?

Looks like you have no clue how investing works. It is not like he is saying - make me an evil substance, muahahahaa! I pretty strongly dislike Windows, but his business acumen has been pretty solid. Including his investments. He chooses big things both as humanitys needs and potential. And selling shares is nothing bad, not like he sells them just before announcing something ridiculous on twitters and liessocial.

You sound just like a typical couch expert. Never tried it yourself, but have strong opinion. Linux support is completely different than Windows. First is - you can continue using older versions without forced "up"-grades or diminished functionality. Second - support actually works, when you ask for anything, you get actual help with references and explanations, not just "Thanks for contacting Microsoft support, I am tripple cosmic certified expert John Doe. Have you tried reinstalling Windows? Solved, Closed. I am such a tool!".

You don't need plaintext csv dump as backup. Keep it encrypted on your $MEDIA. You keep multiple Yubis for access. Nothing secure is unencrypted anywhere. Keep them separate trusted locations.