That’s the point. There is nothing strange or shady about the fact that things you type into DeepSeek.com are sent to DeepSeek.com. Obviously keystrokes you submit to a website are submitted to the website.

Linting rules and scripts should never live in an IDE-specific directory.

Of course they should. Obviously it shouldn’t be the only place they are, but committing IDE code styles settings that match the externally-enforced project styles is absolutely helpful.

Or, in our project we have a bunch of scripts that you can run manually, but we also have commited IntelliJ run configurations that make running them a convenient in-IDE action.

I’m just explaining how people end up with high uptimes despite not keeping their computer on all the time. There is no purpose to “padding your uptime”.

When you hibernate, “uptime” counts it even though the computer is off, as it’s more of a “time since cold boot”.

So I turn off my computer every day, but have an uptime of weeks now.

Every time I saw someone I know built a PC, they reused the license key from their previous one. And the first one was a free key from their university.

It definitely happens though!

Fair enough. To me the fact people don’t do it and that it’s rare is perfectly expected. In other words, I would be surprised if people commonly did that, but they don’t, so I don’t see anything surprising. But I can see your point of view, it’s looking at it a bit differently.

I’m talking about operating systems. Not a pc that is packaged with one.

So yes, looks like I correctly understood what you are trying to say, and agree with you that buying a standalone operating system is weird. But nobody does that.

Looks like you consider buying something in a bundle to not be buying it, which is a valid opinion, though myself I disagree. Most OS purchases happen in a bundle with a PC, and every time I bought a laptop I asked for Windows to be removed from the bundle, which made it cheaper a bit (as I was going to install Linux anyway). If removing Windows from the bundle is making it cheaper, then clearly you were buying it and paying for it for when you don’t, as most people do.

Where are these surprising purchases then? People either use it for free, in which case they haven’t paid for it, or they bought it in a bundle with their PC, which is again very common.

Who is actually buying Windows standalone?

I think what you are trying to say is “buying an OS not as part of a package deal is surprising”. To that I would agree.

But most people are buying an OS as part of a package deal, so most purchases of an OS are not surprising.

How is it surprising people pay for operating systems? The vast majority of computers sold are bundled with an operating system license, and most people just use what came with the computer.

Regardless of the meme, it’s just weird behaviour to print off a meme, in presumably tens of copies, and leave it on every desk. Don’t you have a group chat?

I was buying a PC case and was surprised to find out it’s actually not trivial to find one without a transparent side panel.

I don’t want to see the inside of my PC, ideally it should be hidden away as much as possible. My ideal setup would be to have the tower in a separate room with cables going through a wall so that only peripherals are anywhere near my desk.

Or just playing games with higher graphics settings that the Steam Deck wouldn’t be able to run.

But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off

That’s fair, though I’d still say the CEO, leadership team, and other employees have more to do with running Amazon than someone who owns some shares.

Bezos stepped down as the CEO of Amazon in 2021, and also sold most of his shares to focus on his rocket company. Not disagreeing with your message, but Bezos doesn’t have much to do with Amazon anymore.

The idea is probably that there is nothing to consent to if you are supposed to practice abstinence.

I presume in his ideal country there is no capitalism, and as such state enforcers don’t enforce capitalism, but enforce whatever he is thinking of

Sure, as I said “Windows is absolutely needed if you want a good experience”. Yes, it’s not required to get something working if you try hard enough, but it is required if you want everything to work well.

I keep a Windows virtual machine with GPU passthrough for VR and don’t see myself ditching it any time soon. At least I don’t need to boot into Windows.

“The outline of a potential story” being out is different from an actual game being out though.