So incredibly disappointed in your poor decision-making. Maybe you should move to Idaho with the SWAT forces you love so much, since you clearly don't support the people who voted for you.

Disgusting. She will not be getting my vote when the time comes.

Oh, believe me, I know. Half my family is still aboard his hype train.

We're just at the beginning of all of this, though. Things are going to get significantly worse for everyone, including them. Maybe they will learn a lesson, but I wouldn't bet on it.

...and like the dumbasses they are, they voted for him thinking he cared about them. Or maybe it was just to "own the libs."

Now they're shocked that they too are on this sinking ship.

It's also just another service that the brand could deprecate and then the hardware itself is worthless. This is not needed for technology that doesn't need to be "smart."

The brand that eventually makes "dumb" appliances again that just work, will take over.

Yeah so I’ve heard. I’m keen to try something more stable too. Have had less than great experiences in the past but it is always fun playing around with random distros.

The plan is to reformat and run something basic like Linux Mint on it so I can have more control and less BS… it doesn’t need to do anything else.

Yeah it’s the path I need to go. I have Win 10 pro running on this old HP slim tower I was given when I built my dad a new computer during Covid.

It exists as a permanently VPN connected torrent box. Needs to be online 24/7 but Microsoft insists on rebooting it for “necessary” updates.