Flashing back to Red Planet.

Somebody call Tom Selleck!

They have a series on Gates too.

The answer to OPs question is that these people they admired were just as bad, just better at PR. Unless you think that social media has had some kind of positive effect in outing these newer bastards. Being young and naive may also have been a factor (which I can personally attest to since I was a fan of MS back in the 90s before I learned about them).

Ah yes, the ol’ “promoted to the level of their incompetence”. SOP. Or SNAFU, take your pick.

It’s a topsy-turvy world.

Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.

I’d guess that the down votes weren’t because it wasn’t true, but rather simply that the fact made them unhappy. Not the best use of down votes, but understandable.

Which has its own downside, that being the up-front cost.

“Press Play on tape.”

(makes lunch)

“File found. Loading…”

(takes a bath, goes for a walk, reads a book…)

Ah the memories…

But where to store it all now?

I came here to say this. I don’t really do networking so I don’t have much care for this issue, but the clarity of the explanation was enjoyable. Plus I learned a couple of little things too.

I don’t know, maybe it is like Midas. The things he touches turn into something coveted, and therefore valuable, but also of little to no practical use, just like gold.

Yeah; seeing this pop up on my feed so close to another story about the increasing concentration of wealth to landlords in Canada made me both chuckle and then sigh.

something something wmds…

Didn’t I see that in a cartoon? Sam and Ralph?

Apple making robots, what could go wrong? (Looks up phone number for Tom Selleck)

It’s about love and companionship and everything’s fine! Just give us all of your personal information. We won’t do anything bad, we promise!

Assuming they don’t own them already as a sort of pressure valve. Yeah I’m getting that cynical.

Classic Scylla and Charybdis. Good luck on your odyssey.

The people that have problems with Windows and have to ask for help, shouldn’t be using Linux because it’ll confuse the poor souls even further.

My mother got so fed up with her windows problems that she asked me to put Linux on her computer. While she still had problems after that, she found them manageable and was happy with it ever since.

The people that know exactly how to configure and use Windows with zero problems have no need to use Linux

Nobody has zero problems with either os. The difference is whether you want to deal with problems that are just technical, or due to incompetence and profit motive.