The progression of a slow decline in competency?

So the wealthy are increasingly scrambling for ways to differentiate themselves from the plebs.

The Internet shot education disparities in the foot, along with equal access measures. Looks and fashion are meaningless, because the first point means that personally made, bespoke items can be very high quality. Health can be maintained very cheaply, with the right knowledge.

So they are frustrating access to education and preventative health measures like vaccines and fluoride.

Just use patches man

That poor chair

Since Amazon commingled stock, you can’t know if the electronics you are getting are knock offs, tampered with, Or a brick in a box.

Keep your money for local businesses.

Children dude

Yeah, and you assume other drivers won’t drive in the wrong lane

Average sysadmin origin, thank you for your service

I think so

By looking up pirate primary sources that are behind paywalls. I said, sources are paywalled, go look it up.

The majority of new Linux users are buying Chromebooks or other devices with it prebuilt

These references are a celebration of diversity, read the room

Sorry, sources are all paywalled.

Sales in these devices are up, while PCs are stagnant. Go look

My workplace barely groks opportunity cost on their main product, and I’m not responsible for the IT. When it breaks constantly, I say “yeah we know it breaks like this, get them to fix it.”

Not my circus, I just stamp the tickets.

Yeah what a nice redneck

Chromebook/ tablet people mostly.

The most likely users for Linux desktop, don’t need a tower. Storage and computing are compact enough.

The heavy compute workload people have a lot of history of how and what they use, they need to explore their own migration path.

What do you use for video calls with screen share?

My coop uses teams and I want to move them off it.

So now my clients will have a harder time engaging with my product. Great.

It will be funny if they try, because plenty of presentation setups will break

Also per volume most of the stuff is cheaper than elsewhere.

If you can get a friend or neighbor to split with you, there are easy to share two/three pack items for a bunch of things. Lean ground beef is one good one.