I assume you're American?
I don't think anyone is saying that Finnish wait times are worse than the deplorable system in the US with (by far) the highest per capita cost in any OECD country with one of the lowest healthcare access rates.
So sorry you're caught up in it. That sucks. I hope it turns out well for you.
Project 2025 includes a detailed plan about how to dismantle the entire Federal government and replace thousands of government managers with alt-right extremists.
Project 2025 matches most of his campaign promises and is written largely by former Trump administration staffers.
I'm running Win 10 Ameliorated on mine. Manual driver installs were the only big hiccup. Works well otherwise, but it's not my daily driver.
I can't really use Linux since my work is deeply embedded in Microsoft everything; I need OneDrive to work dependably.
It was offered as a free upgrade for anyone with Wishes 7/8. And you could get free upgrades to those from earlier editions of Windows, too.
Some people haven't paid for Windows in 2 decades-ish with a legit retail purchase.
Mood.
I'm not going to pay $45 for any game. If I'd known about the "never on sale, price only goes up" model they were using, I might have bought it back when it was $20, but I'll just never play it now and I'm okay with that. There are literally hundreds of amazing games I already own to play, and if I had 100+ hours to sink into a game like this (I don't, post-kiddos—for now, anyway), then I'd strike the earth for some Dwarf Fortress !!!FUN!!!, which I know I'll enjoy.
Or maybe finally get around to beating Baldur's Gate 1... (I never made it past the early game... BG3 I'll get to in the 2040s at this rate, ha ha!)
Aside from people who just want to play football/CoD/D4/whatever multilayer game, I don't understand why anyone pays full price for games. I'm glad they do, mind, since they're subsidizing the development costs mean games get made, and I get amazing games for cheap.
As a recent example, I nabbed MH Rise for cheap recently, and bounced off it. I might try again later, but it didn't grab me. So glad I didn't pay more than $15 CAD for it!
The ultra-wealthy are terrified of reprisal from Trump. And they control the media (Bezos/WP) and social media (Zuck).
Democracy in America may fail next week. Terrifying to watch.
Isn't it getting harder to find custom ROMs, now? Used to be basically everything was on XDA forums, but I've heard lots of custom ROMs are moving to they're own websites/Discord servers/whatever.
Meanwhile, Steam is raking it in by continuing to offer a better product than piracy. The Steam Deck is making that even more true; it's so much more convenient to have games in the Steam library than try to keep a repack updated with new patches/content.
Right, but pirating Disney-owned IP is more moral than paying for it. Disney is the number 1 company in the world for lobbying for copyright over-reach. Every dollar that goes to Disney pays for lobbyists who will continue to push for life-of-author + 90+ years, because life-of-author plus 70 years just isn't enough time to control our shared cultural heritage.
Similarly for Nintendo and software piracy.
Paying for Disney/Nintendo media is immoral.
"Family first" is unidirectional. Parents put their kids first. That's the job. I signed up for it, and I'm going to prioritize then as much as I can.
Dragon Age: Origins came out 15 years ago. That's a very long time to stay with the same company in the tech sector. It's not at all unusual that there are so few people left who worked with the engine for the first game.