That’s just because Microsoft waited until Android and iOS were well-established before trying to make a smartphone OS. It could have been the best OS ever made, and it still would have been a failure because there wasn’t a market for a third OS. It was hard enough at the time to get apps developed for both iOS and Android - there wasn’t room for a third player.
Everyone talking about how it’s because of Windows 11 or their greed driving people away, etc. But they’re ignoring the big one:
People don’t need as many computers these days. You don’t have a lot of households with a laptop for every member of the family because smartphones and tablets have replaced the PC for many people for media consumption and basic tasks.
Sometimes re-wiring a house or building isn’t as practical as setting up a mesh network that’s good-enough.
It’s a bad band for cellular. It’s short-range and shit at penetration.
It’s really not even that good for wifi unless you’re close or have a mesh network with APs all over the building.
Yeah. I’m not going to any celebrations of the country this weekend. I don’t have it in me to be patriotic right now. It’s wild how far we’ve fallen in the past decade. And flabbergasting how much further we fell over the last 6 months.
I never thought I’d literally be stocking up on ammunition over political shifts in the US. That’s what the crazies on the right do.
Are the instructions in a basement lavatory marked “beware of the leopard”?
Also, don’t use their website.
That’s too kind. Make the property a crippling liability they have to unload instantly.
Tax unoccupied homes at 150% of their value annually.
I’m saying that people are varied and that individuals have a maximum potential. Not everybody can lift weights to the point they become the strongest person on the planet, and not everyone can study until they’re the most-knowledgeable person on the planet.
We’re not clones. Everyone is born different with different brains and bodies, and it’s important to recognize that so we can cater to people’s individual needs, learning styles, abilities, and passions.
Yes. People have different natural abilities.
I played the bassoon for over a decade. I had access to truly excellent instructors and a great music program and worked hard at it. And after years of training and work, I was decent. I saw other people with no prior music background pick it up and get better than me in 2-3 months.
People’s brains are wired differently.
There’s definitely variance in human intelligence, yes.
Smarts/intelligence is the capacity to learn. An educated person has been taught. A knowledgeable person has learned.
They’ll be more knowledgeable and better educated. They won’t be smarter.
Being better educated doesn’t make them smart. I know some geniuses who had to drop out of high school to work and some real dumbasses with doctorates.
I don’t think there’s a person on the planet who would take that bet in good faith, except maybe Trump himself.
He truly believes he’s a genius. Everyone else on the planet, including his supporters, knows deep down that he’s by far the dumbest person to hold the office.
There’s a reason ICE conceal their faces.
They know what they’re doing is wrong and don’t want to be held accountable if their fascist rule collapses.
I think the idea is that if he’s acquitted, they’ll just deport him somewhere other than El Salvador, which they can legally do.
He missed his window to apply for asylum years ago, so the non-removal order protecting him applied specifically to deportation to El Salvador. He can be sent elsewhere, and with Trump trying to open concentration camps elsewhere, I think he’ll eventually end up in a different torture prison.
I hate this reality.
She’s a slightly slow clock. Right once every couple of decades.
I’m stocking up on ammunition in case I need it for self-defense and using a no-log VPN when criticizing the government.
So I’m gonna go with “No.”