I mean that’s an NHS problem, not a trans problem, isn’t it? The healthcare system in the UK is messed up. You got long wait times for most things.

Compared to the past trans people have way more rights and options right now. Gay marriage is also becoming legal in more countries.

And even if the media tries to push that crime is on the rise… it’s the opposite, actual crime statistics are going down year after year.

Right wing crazies/conservatives are a big problem of course (though more so in the US).

If you want to be negative about the future you only have to look at the climate crisis though. Things are going to get fucked in 10-20 years.

Those are all easily achievable goals, so definitely get started :)

But then it’s not natural! If I’m a future space billionaire, of course I’d want the real stuff with animal suffering involved, duh.

Yes, but I was talking about the salary part, which is separate from the costs you mentioned.

It’s 19 million just for people.

Is it just me or is $19 million per year for 50 full-time employees insane?

Even for US salary standards.

Serious answer: With the climate crisis some areas in the world will become impossible to live in (look up wet bulb temperature). Now you have a massive amount of refugees who want to go somewhere else, if necessary by force.

When there’s suddenly millions of people pushing against country borders all it takes is a few shots and you have a war.

You’re comparing apples and oranges. Windows is the OS, One Drive is just a sync service (like Dropbox). They are not comparable in the least.

Or did you want to talk about Office365 or something?

Sheesh. Then maybe it’s a US vs EU topic? A lot of things that fly in the US wouldn’t fly inside the EU without huge fines.

One big reason might be Windows Home vs Professional licenses. I don’t see 80% of the crap Home license users complain about. The other 20% might be settings (I’ve turned everything off).

Even so Windows is getting plenty annoying nowadays, but it has been this way since Windows Vista. No, Windows 7 wasn’t all sunshine and roses either. And Windows 10 had the same issues (for those Windows 11 deniers).

I’d love to permanently switch to Linux, but it’s not there for me yet. At least in the areas of gaming (especially multiplayer) and part of my work (Software development in .NET, can’t beat a full fledged Visual Studio application so far. Rider has a subscription even for personal use, blegh).

That’s silly and dumb on top, because games rapidly lose value. The $60 game you buy today (and don’t play) costs $40 in a year. And will be in a $12 Humble Bundle with 9 other games in 3-5 years tops.

I already get enough games in bundles that I don’t play, when I actually buy a game (even on sale) I only do it if I want to play it immediately. Otherwise in the future it will be cheaper anyway and have plenty of updates on top (if it didn’t get abandoned).

Select something to type in, then press Windows key + H. Talk :)

Edit: Whoops, wrong community. For Linux you probably have to experiment with some options: https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-speech-recognition-tools-open-source-software/

Sorry, that was more of a general comment to the topic (especially with Google getting more strict lately, see the Chromium and YouTube drama).

I didn’t expect someone to link old news, so I treated it more like a discussion.

Yeah, my experience was mostly from that time. For example with an original Galaxy S (custom ROM + overclocking).

I also had a OnePlus One, which was unlocked of course, but the key combination to get to the bootloader was super unreliable or straight up didn’t work at times.

Funny thing is: Now that it’s easier to install a custom ROM I’ve just been running stock for years.

There are phones with locked bootloaders. But for now there are ways to unlock them. In theory though they could just lock the bootloader and that’s it, if you can’t jailbreak the device or root the stock ROM you’re out of luck.

You missed the point. If Google pushes this through you won’t be able to root your device anymore.

Without rooting it gets a bit tough to install your favorite custom ROM.

The entire problem is the word “believe” there.

Fine, when you say global warming isn’t real I’m going to listen, if you actually post data. But everything we have for the last 50 years clearly points to a man made and rapid climate crisis.