Ironically, the US is practically already off MS in schools and has been for a while but it's Mac and Google Suite that took over. I literally had a college student in my class ask "What is Excel?" as it was listed as an option to conduct calculations.

It's not better, but I thought that was funny. Big reason that happened, btw, Apple gifted whole computer labs to schools back when it was trying to get market share in the 90s, and now Google does likewise with Chromebook. Too bad there isn't a Linux organization with enough money to do something like that, as it's much more effective than banning something.

Really, doesn't even take long. When I bought my first place here in Los Angeles, the mortgage was 2.6k, rent 2.2k for comparable places.

Then boom, somehow it's 3.2k rent now and I'm paying 2.6k four years later. That's fucked up, of course, but that's how it works.

Wow, that's wild. I guess there's still a market for dialup, even in the age of mobile and satellite.

Or you're a teenager making fat stacks with multiple ad bars. And by fat stacks, I mean fractions of a cent.

There was an ISP that also gave a discount (or was it free?) if you had the ad bar running. NetZero was it?

Haha, it's even worse in academics because anything from students is protected. Unless they host on campus, it's a violation even if MS super duper promises not to leak information. It's also why we can't use ChatGPT, though fools still do.

Edit: I mean for grading, asking a clanker is still fine but a terrible idea.

Unfortunately yes, although it's hopefully not commonplace for my ad bloated W11 start menu to take 10 seconds to open.

I'm not even sure if they remember the changed names. Granted, I'm in CA so we never even think about the gulf, let alone it coming up in conversation with a person I despise.

I prefer restoration points, stored locally, since most of my work is less than an hour and doesn't need checkpoints. Sometimes something goes terribly wrong and I want to start over. But if it crashes? Yeah, restore me!

And half the time it's in a fucking browser.

Hey quick rant, I'm a professor and due to budget cuts they cut our MS Office so it's online only. I was already getting into non-slop software but now I need to check for compatibility using the browser version, since podiums only have Office and we're supposed to use that.

So what I'm trying to say is, I'm feeling this right now. Shit doesn't even have master slides or mathematical formula editing, ffs.

I'm more going to remember "in the dark, all cats are grey" lol

By the very nature of Linux it can't happen from a simple plug and play.

I got a free LG monitor from an office closure near me. Didn't notice this because I'm a Linux person. Let someone use a Windows laptop with it via HDMI and it did that. Lol