RobertoOberto

You should consider reading the article before "just sayin."

They don't care if the service is good or not because the days of companies actually competing for customers are rapidly coming to a close.

If they can drive the private hardware market into extinction, then they become the only option.

...or the OP believes the myths, isn't trying to be funny, and is legitimately confused?

But now the surveillance capabilities of both the state and large corporations have been ramped up to infinity and beyond. I'm expecting a partnership announcement between Micron and Raytheon any day now, where Raytheon gets free DDR5 and Micron gets armed and autonomous security drones.

Kind of \s, kind of not

I don't think most of them will.

1. They will use enterprise editions internally, where their IT team will have much more control over behaviors they don't like at the group policy level than home users do.

2. The executives at the big software conglomerates have the same AI boners that Microsoft does. They'll be looking for ways to integrate new Windows features and use them as selling points for their own products.

3. They don't care about the privacy nightmare Windows has become because they implement and benefit from the same telemetry and data collection practices with their customers.

That's why I only drink units of whole blood. On average, the under-hydrated and over-hydrated people that contributed to that unit cancel each other out, so I know I'm always working towards optimal cell hydration. Never to much or too little.

I think people who haven't been been the target of insults since high school (or maybe ever?) forget how petty and uncreative it often is.

The point insulting someone isn't to be truthful, it's to be hurtful or put them down.

can’t properly explain the differences between an OS, a browser and a search engine

Which, of course, was the goal of manufacturers all along. First computer you used a lot was a Chromebook? Google is all of those things. Was it a Windows 8 or later system? They damn near are the same thanks to web search integration with the start menu that only nerds like me care about disabling.

Not concerned about porch pirates at all

Not everyone has been blessed with the same gift of blissful ignorance that you have.

I agree that people shouldn't order Ring, it's a shitty product for the reasons laid out in this thread and article. But "just be nicer to everyone around you" is not a viable alternative, and suggesting it is dismissive of the realities other people are living.

If you're still talking about getting shit stolen off your porch, anyone within driving distance could be responsible for it.

Do you really think it's possible to try to become friends with or "help out" every asshole within a 10 minute drive of where you live? Or even identify everyone in that range who might have sticky fingers?

The weapons are outfitted with a smaller barrel to accomodate.

The different barrel requirement doesn't apply to all systems. AR-15/M16/M4 rifles in 5.56 can use a drop in bolt carrier group with Simunition mags and ammo, with no other changes.

I almost had a moment that satisfying.

But that particular training op was only supplied with blanks and blue body grenades. No one knows they've been "hit" unless you yell at them, which means you have to give away your awesome hiding spot. Also, they sometimes just can't hear you, so you might have to let a whole disorganized squad bumblefuck their way by without any reprocussions for their utter lack of situational awareness.

But it was still better than the time everyone else had sim rounds in their M16s but I was issued an M9 and a SMAW which they didn't provision any kind of simulated ammo for. I had to yell "BANG BANG" and hope my target played by the rules (they didn't).