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I remember a similar experience. So much time was wasted just keeping some small app limping along with security patches because no one knew or wanted to know how it worked.

Pair that with oracle's notoriously useless support which always required you to be on the latest patch before even providing an answer and it made the decision to leave it in the rearview mirror the easiest part of some modernization effort.

My point was that american companies have in the past on purpose designed cars, washing machines, etc. to fail so you need to buy another one in some years. Both EVs and ICE cars at ford, GM, etc. adhere to the same leadership and company goals regardless of how they spin it.

Ford was known for letting a failed known design flaw kill people in the past since they ran the numbers and it was cheaper to battle people in court (a topic in ethics classes). Once the trust is gone, it's hard to get it back.

We do know the reliability of american cars though. We dont buy american cars any longer on our extended family.

Interference engine paired with a timing belt that touches oil so they can blame you for "not doing maintenance" when it snaps and implodes the drivetrain? GTFO.

Let whatever shitty OS wants to add that garbage do it themselves. Also, legislators should SystemDeezNutz!

They were not profitable though, you can only do that for so long before you fold and then no one gets anything.

I probably should mention I'm on bazzite, so a lot of things just work out of the gate, not sure about other distros.

They work out of the box, but the firmware updater is what's windows only (pro 2 and pro 3 at least). Not even a MacOS version of the firmware tool.

The larger issue I found with them was that hollow knight and silksong didn't capture the triggers properly on their Linux version making them unplayable. Also the games would crash once in a while. You have to run the windows version with proton to get a solid experience. I read it was due to outdated Linux input libraries used by unity or whatever game engine it uses.

We are more basic and stick to "penis tower". A true to life embodiment of capitalism.

Instructions unclear, they got ran over at the intersection by a dodge ram with a lift kit that could not see them.

All of them are forced to drive. Some people admit they are terrible drivers, but have no options if they still want to have a life not revolving around commuting.

My electric bill is already 2x+ that of the neighboring city due to data centers having an understanding with the for profit electric company that serves us. No thank you.

Then you'd also need to remove already successful "evergreen" titles in that case, which might land you back into the same. Not a lot of money for new games.