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I think Linux has progressed a lot since 2005. It's mostly idiot proof these days - it asks about language/keyboard/timezone/wifi and unless you ask for an advanced install (to partition a hard drive or whatever) it just installs.

I don't think installing Windows is any harder but it may stop to ask for a registration key. Windows also prefers to connect to wifi during installation to fetch patches whereas Linux tends to do it after the fact.

Unless you're installing some weird corporate build of Windows you'll have a very simple installation process. Linux has caught up a lot to that experience.

This is such an egregious violation of his rights that he should sue for millions because he'll get it.

Seems a little premature until he is sworn in and delivers on his promises

You don't have to be tech savvy to realise the adage "if it sounds too good to be true...". I would have thought Americans of all people would develop armour against scams. But even a modicum of due diligence like asking relatives, or googling his situation might have protected him.

I should add that my dad is 80 and housebound and gets scam calls all the time and bats them off like flies so being old is not an excuse.

And I thought my wife was gullible for nearly falling for a cadburys hamper giveaway scam. But this several orders of gullible worse.

It is contrary to Elon Musk's interests to build public transport. He wants it to be private and operated by him. See the robotaxi and all the bullshit with his tunnels which even at the diameter they bore could accommodate a proper mass transit system but don't and never will.

Make it a world wide ban to the age of 80

Every operating system contributed to the bloat. Windows has Win32, OS X has Carbon / Cocoa, Linux has X11 and various widget libs that sit on top of it. So it has been a perennial nut to crack to make cross platform widgets - wxWidgets, QT, SWT/JWT/Swing on Java, XMLShell (Firefox), Electron, GTK/GTK#, winelib etc.

Throw mobile platforms into the mix and it's an unholy mess. Lowest common denominator is HTML and so the likes of Electron "wins" even though it's bloated and slow.

Elon is too chickenshit to sit on top of one his own rockets let alone go to Mars. He has bigged it up in the past, but he's a coward and he'll make some lame excuse why some other poor bastards should go on the one way trip and not him.

30 years ago the McRib was amazing. They used to take the pork patty and baste it in this stick sweet bbq glue sauce. When you ordered one, they'd fish one out of the basting dish with tongs and slap it into a dressed bun and serve it in a bag. You ate it in the bag because it was just so sloppy.

These days they just dress the thing like a burger - patty on, squirt of BBQ sauce on top of the patty. There is hardly any mess to it and it's basically just a pork burger. The experience of eating it and the lack of sauce makes it feel so bland.

I still think the web would have been better off if certificates were signed and part of a web of trust like in GPG/PGP. It wouldn't stop sites from using trusted CAs to increase their trust levels with browsers, but it would mean that tiny websites wouldn't need to go through layers of mandatory bullshit and inconvenience. Also means that key signers could have meaningful business relationships rather than being some random CA that nobody has a clue about.