Nah that's just for high security government systems, if you run a small business or something you might not want to fuck around with thin clients unless you're working directly with big databases and stuff
Cannacheques
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Look man, I think most people would agree that if you want a good gaming experience and you can't afford a good PC or gaming laptop then you're either going to the internet cafe or getting a console.
Even though Linux is still somewhat popular in tech circles, consider that windows would have a significant market share for providing high value entertainment and a wide variety of tools to office workers. Microsoft Office is the dominant documentation and accounting suite for office workers around the world.
Now, combine that with the way that Microsoft has bundled their OS into many laptops and retail computers worldwide and you see why they're big.
Essentially anybody looking to do any paperwork related work will have to interact with Microsoft's system of software in one way or another. If Bill Gates was a deity, he'd probably fit right in with the god of tax collectors, taxing people for paperwork and bureaucracy.
Guy just doesn't care lol
Fsb time, no time to think, just imagine, this must be something bad!
Fsb money, I am very communist however, everyday the McDonalds man comes closer to mother Russia, and the hole in my pocket grows bigger.
The problem is not social media, it's that social media is you, a single person, interacting with a large system that presents to you a tapestry of complex opinions, videos and stories from a variety of groups to you, a person. You have your own internal system of views, opinions, values and personal feelings.
Being aware of this will naturally make you feel small and "weak", a kind of mental health "bigorexia" if you will. And in extreme cases, enough to consider the possibility that multiple personalities to be the greatest semi failed attempt to empathize with as many individual lives as possible.
Before we had kings and queens, people were tribal but certainly not as aggressive as today. Think about it, all hierarchies seek to impose dominance and control, both on its subjects and on outsiders that it comes in contact with
No societal structures and systems are continuous or exist within a vacuum. Conflict is always a potential threat, whether human beings can learn to resolve their differences and coexist in harmony is both a personal and a group matter that would ideally be more fair with a third party referee, however, humanity is sadly yet to become capable of asking his best friend (dog) for their opinions
Cries in Italian
Ironically the EU would not dare leave Malta or Greece
Yeah nah, I'm sure every generation will cop flack for something, it's just that since WW2, and the cold war, problems like plastic, lead paint etc let alone the environment weren't really on the agenda. People just didn't have a list of big bad world problems besides war.
On one hand I agree that technology is changing at a rapid pace, and ageism is a thing, especially more so now with climate change, but I think the issue is how quickly can the "wall of education" be broken down so that a critical mass of the human population can be enabled to learn how to calculate complex integrals, produce a computer software and program, to make a pipe bomb lol, or fix their car etc, you get my point.
Information freedom is becoming a big deal for people these days but at the same time individuals are no longer expected to be so rigidly self reliant. First it was paper, then books in libraries, nowadays we have the internet. YouTube, torrents and search engines definitely help a lot, but I haven't seen a top ten problems for humanity video on YouTube yet lol. We're almost coming full circle, however, I still think we should pay homage to the idea that being self reliant and learning how to do something for yourself is essentially a good thing, not necessarily only valuable to prevent loss of information but for further collaboration opportunities. It's not necessarily Nazism to argue that if every person's mind was a library, idiocracy and risk of displacement would become less likely to occur on every level. Think of Hal from A Space Odyssey
Your mechanic can fix his own car the same way your locksmith can unlock his own van, and your tech support guy will probably learn to fix his own computer. If you can do all of those things, even if you don't become a valuable person in society, at least you'll be better at taking care of yourself and less likely to be a burden to your group.
In saying that, if I was an old 60-70yr old man, I would consider re-educating myself in a field not so hot for the younglings, you know, the usual work like the trades, engineering, computing, and big data are big money for many young people these days, so it makes sense, if you're older to get into something less physical like painting, gardening, landscaping, digger operator, software UI development, accounting, systems engineering, matchmaking, etc, something that is either boring or niche enough that many avoid it while simultaneously needing it. Remember boredom is the weakness of the younglings lol