I thought 8 was ok… 8.1 was the best 8, which changed a few of the annoying things and made it fine. I agree with the other person here, this should be Vista.

Is this one of those things that will end up at the Supreme Court? If so, I don’t have much faith and would sound like exactly what they want to occur.

Does the dog now live as long as you do? Will it age quicker than you? How will it be able to sleep as long as it needs to if your up all day? Do you have to eat dog food now?

Thankfully, mine are too old to ever give a shit about anything on the internet. Sadly, my mother watches fox 24/7… my father doesn’t care for any of it at least and also pokes fun at her for watching that garbage. He still thinks Trump is good because, in his views, he made his stock the highest it ever was, and that’s all that matters. I’m only grateful we never talk about any of it when they see my kids or on holidays.

Or you get less money than you should.

I gotta make an RPG that features thr 4 elemelons featuring the 4 element buffalo’s.

As someone who hasn’t followed them too much but was interested in buying stuff someday, thank you! I hate shady companies that seem to be doing this more and more lately… I guess from the looks of it, they may not be around much longer anyway.

It’s insane to me that one of the richest people in the world, and still making more every second, cares so much about new ways to hurt people so he can continue to make even more.

Because of this, I feel that it has more to do with gaining power over making money. He appears to be at the stage where he just wants to control everything and absolutely believes he is entitled to do so. At this point, it probably doesn’t even cost that much to do whatever he wants, so why not take it as far as everyone will let him.

From my understanding, if the original country they originate from does not take them, they can end up in another country that the US has made deals with. That will take time to negotiate, and during this time, they will sit in camps…

Probably because they weren’t ready and slapped this together as a way to stop the mountain of rumors and to hold people off until the actual reveal. Dammed if you do dammed if you don’t.

I did in my house which was built in the 1950s or 60s and it works. With that said, it was only ok and I wouldn’t use this for anything but internet access and some light streaming. This was 10 years ago so it is possible they have gotten better. I have since moved to mesh wifi and it literally solved every issue I had and the whole house has incredible wifi no matter where you are. Plus I use the AP’s to plug in my more dedicated stuff since it’s faster than wifi to use the backhaul the APs use to communicate with. I do wish I could afford to redo my house and put in ethernet wiring everywhere and have a dedicated switch for everything.

More shady marketing. The actual price should always be shown up front. The fact that they are showing the most discounted price, which is probably rare to even get, is disingenuous. I guess they are seeing just how much they can get away with before it’s shut down.

The real girl looks just like this, except tied up and sitting in the flatbed.

As much as they are pushing to stop 1 time purchases of office, they do still offer it. I purchased a license for like $20 off a discount site for Office 2021, and i have no clue why people need a subscription plan for this. It would take some very specific needs for that to ever be needed and I’m sure a huge percentage would be just fine with the 1 time purchase that lasts 3-4 years of support.

As for businesses that part stinks… once you get integrated with all the services offered, it’s going to take a lot to back out since it’s not just office they are probably subscribed to but everything else that enterprise has to offer. They are absolutely banking on people to suck it up and accept the position they are in and give in. It’s awful, but at the same time if your business went all in and didn’t anticipate this then they didn’t do their job if you ask me when vetting everything. This feels similar to the recent buyout of VMware and are now pushing insane new license costs. The problem is they went to high where despite the effort it will take to change products people have to. We can only hope Microsoft is on the edge of crossing that line.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but I honestly have no clue. If they “purchase” a country who can even make that deal and who is receiving the money?

To bad they didn’t hear about Loops. I don’t use this stuff so I have no idea if it’s good or not, but it’s not Chinese or collecting your data so it would be worth a try. Although if 400k users flooded it I have serious doubts they could scale to meet a demand like that.

While this is true, I feel this way about every one of them. People watch it?

Thanks! I like it a lot.

Thanks for the update! So in reality, this boils down to not enough bribes, and US competitors (fb, Twitter, etc) most likely encouraging officials more than it has to do with national security.

That’s what I said. Really though, that is basically what all consoles are. They just used to get really dramatic upgrades because the period of time they released have been big growth periods. These days? Everyone has conformed to the same thing and given up on proprietary stuff. Then I thought about how this really is odd for Nintendo since they genuinely strive to offer something unique and new each time. Then I realized it’s also called switch 2 so I don’t feel like they did anything wrong since what did I expect to change when they are literally telling you what it is which is pretty much defined already.

In the end, I think it’s a smart move. It’s the least disruptive path and probably the cheapest route for them to continue on and as long as the thing is really powerful I think it’s a good idea to continue the brand for another 5 years. I do have my doubts that it will be powerful so that we’ll just have to wait and see. Nintendo has never been big on offering up the most powerful hardware, so I expect it to be a few years behind already.