The difference is that a generator you might use every two years is likely to fail when you need it unless you carefully maintain it regularly.

You use your car every day, you’ll notice if it breaks and take care of it immediately.

They love a bully

Most people can’t afford to buy new cars period.

This doesn’t stop people buying 10 year old ICEs. You can still buy a 10 year old one in 2045.

I’m pretty sure EV tech has improved enough by then to make cheap cars possible.

Apple Music pays multiple times more to artists than Spotify.

Tidal pays multiple times more than Apple.

You can influence things with your wallet.

The default should always be “no”. The user has to opt in.

The law specifically says not to do the super complex dark pattern deny every 3rd part cookie manually by hand - crap.

The problem is that it’s not enforced

And “WiFi” is synonymous for “Interenet connection” to them.

Yea, kiddo, the WiFi is working just fine, but the ISP crapped its pants and you can’t connect to anything past this house.

And this is why I only buy Brother laser printers

If I can’t buy it, I will pirate it with zero moral issues.

I own over 1000 DVDs and a couple hundred BluRays, but will pirate anything that gets removed from streaming or isn’t available in my region for some shitty licensing reasons.

DEI is like Agile. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do it.

The wrong way is profitable for consultants and easy for the company, so that is what gets implemented in most cases.

The right way requires actual buy-in from C-staff down and needs constant work and adjustment to the specific company. There is no one size fits all solution. More work, less money. Very few companies do this.

Blender is hardly an alternative, it’s the clear #1