They absolutely do, the moment you have any problem you are on your own. I spent half a day troubleshooting why nvidia drivers were not loading (mint was not signing them and secure boot silently kicked the module out), and I'm many times more proficient at technology than an average person.

I bought a brand new Dell laptop with Windows 11 25H2 at the end of November 2025. The first patches released by Microsoft in December did not install. WTF!!!

If you go online, you will see a whole YouTube videos and articles on how to fix the issue. Let me tell you, after a considerable amount of time, I gave up.

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 on my desktop, and I can't remember the last time I had issues applying patches.

Windows has problems all the time. There is widespread knowledge on how to troubleshoot and fix these problems.

Similar problems will have very different solutions for Linux. The knowledge of how to resolve them is much less widespread. I’ve had very good success in asking ChatGPT how to resolve Linux issues, probably better success then I would on Windows because the error messages on Linux are much more detailed.

A lot of the time the "solution" to problems on Windows is to reinstall/in-place upgrade because, as you said, Windows errors tend to be more generic so you can browse Google all you want but none of the instructions people provide will be of much help. So I'm not sure "widespread knowledge" is a point in favor of Windows when the errors frequently aren't specific enough to be reliably actionable.

Windows has a "check the Internet for solutions" option that never works. You can just let Claude code loose on your system and have it go fix your shit for you instead of copy and pasting anything.

Claiming watches, phones and absolutely everything else they make are everywhere in Poland.

Perceived success of 1950s and 1960s does apply to non-white people, women or countries destroyed by war.

And it still mostly doesn't so it's not really a good argument. Meanwhile the share of women in the workforce more than doubled but households' purchasing power isn't even as high as back then when it comes to the basics like cars/energy/housing, if anything it's down quite a bit.

We should unite, not fight about who's whitest, XYZ gender or a minority, you'll always find someone who has it better or worse than you, what matter is the average is going down, while back then it was going up, the rest is mostly noise.

It was going up because half the world was suffering results of war, of course untouched countries saw economic growth.

Same goes for people who did not.

Or use something similar to jwts, you normalize the document, sign the hash, wrap the original document with metadata and include the signature.

It's the circle of those people even close to intersecting with the one for aspiring conference speakers?

New goal: to speak at DEFCON while wearing my dr doom mask to hide my identity

I think this expectation of getting a job when you meet criteria no matter what is a result of them being new grads - that's what happens in classes or exams, you do not compete with others, you just do your thing.

No you don't, lol.

Forget any use for ancestry with privacy guarantees. All you'll get is magic "ethnicity" percentages, kind of astrology of genealogy. For it to be useful in genealogy context you need to rely on matching and analyzing common ancestors, this will inherently lead to your data being shared in one way or another and possibly your identity being revealed.

What law do you think is relevant in this situation?

No idea, which is why I recommend talking to a lawyer and not random people on the internet. Anecdotally I have heard stories of people successfully recovering web accounts via court order.