add more features or monetization or whatever

That “whatever” is doing a lot of work.

Security patches and bug fixes are arguably the most important reason to update.

More like:

Use reports lightbulb is broken. Support spends an hour talking user through diagnostic tests. Determines that the lightbulb in question is a houseplant.

I believe that computer just attracts people who are outcasts

I think you’re right, but I’ve also read that there might be some correlation between being trans and being on the autism spectrum. If that’s true, then it is reasonable to expect a higher than average percentage of IT people would be trans.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9014767/#%3A~%3Atext=(2020)+found+that+that+transgender%2Cand+sex+assigned+at+birth).

Are there really people capable of understanding this who aren’t capable of understanding, for example, “tariffs increase inflation”?

More likely tribalism.

How?

The nice thing about Linux is, he can’t buy it and fuck it up.

I’m kind of fond of my okidata c332dn. It’s my daily driver.

I have Brother multifunction printer. However, it’s run out of toner, and I don’t have the funds right now to purchase new cartridges.

Way back in the olde tymes, I was having trouble with the NIC driver in my Linux install. I posted a question about it on USENET, and got a reply from the guy who wrote the drivers. He asked for some info about the card, then updated the driver to support it.

I used to work in the GRASP lab at Penn, and my predecessor there was John Bradley of xv fame. He had started naming all the machines after fish.

When I got there I continued the practice, naming some tiny computers being used for mini robots after different types of goldfish.

In my current job, years ago, I managed a group of Linux servers, and I named them after Demons (Lucifer, Asmodeus, Azrael, Beelzebub, etc.).

At this point, there is a specific naming convention in use where I’m at, and the name is limited to identifying organization, application, and server type.