Is making pointy sticks necessary? Is flint knapping necessary? Is agriculture necessary? I’m pretty sure there were people asking these questions at each of those milestones of human development.

I already had a 233 MHz PII when AoE came out, so no.

Unplugging the RGB stuff is pretty simple.

It’s OK, gramps, let’s get you back to bed.

I use Mint, by the way.

They didn’t pay their subscription fees, obviously. Duh.

It’ll be interesting to see if there are really that many rubes in the world.

Milk and sugar please.

Praise be!

The key difference is that there are credible alternatives in the PC OS space. If I could ditch Android/iOS without major pain, I’d do it in a heartbeat.

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

Ah yes, Minux Lint. Great distro.

That is an excellent observation! Would you like me to explore more ways that I can agree with you?

What are you, some kind of communist? Next thing you’re going to say the government should spend its money on healthcare instead of bombing schoolgirls. Preposterous!

It’ll be a sad day for the people who lose their jobs because some idiot wasted colossal amounts of money on a delusional dream. Then again it was their choice to work for one of the most evil companies on the planet, so I don’t really pity them.

Are you trying to tell us it’s not called BCA Chefs?

Actually, maybe it would be better, if certain people thought of the children less.

I’ll just spin up a VM real quick.

“Those companies running the orphan crushing machines are really evil.”

“Nooo, you must understand those orphans want to be crushed! They’re just fulfilling a market need!”

Algorithmic content is not bad per se. It’s the algorithms that are specifically designed to create division and hate. The people who design these things know what they’re doing and are doing it because the outcomes are that they want to achieve.