Yeah, I remember traveling to the Radio Shack on 46th Street in mid-town Manhattan back when the Radio Shack stores were few and far between, At the time, there were stores I knew of in Boston area and Dallas-Ft Worth area, and the NYC store I visited.

There's gold in them there hills!

{ -- "Microsoft keeps running into brick walls with the 2024 version of Windows 11," writes ZDNet. "Each new update designed to fix the outstanding bugs ends up introducing other problems..." --} Microsoft seems to have had a QA problem ever since they got rid of the Windows QA team, and apparently substituted wishing and hoping for that team./s

My current PC hardware has all the capabilities I need. Why should I have to buy new PC hardware just to enrich Microsoft's bottom line?

... as an alternative to Linux Mint. After using it a few days, I came to the opinion that MX Linux had some problems, was still a bit rough around the edges, , and I was not impressed at all with the MX Linux discussion board. So I went back to Linux Mint.

... just to have to listen to someone gabbing on a mobile phone in the row behind you?

But that new size sure does look nice.

{ Who cares about usability when the main objective is to be pretty? This isn't a computer for using, it's a thing for owning. } --- Exactly.

Roughly, how many minutes does it take to go from nearly "empty" to fully-charged? Same question for the current crop of chargers.

Why?

I used to use Apple TV to view my videos and listen to mmy music. The early versions were quite easy to use. Then Apple started changing things like the menus, the information returns on searches (apparently preferring apple Store content over my content), and displaying less information on the info screens about the media.

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So I punted Apple TV and moved everything over to JRiver's Media Center. It has been over 10 years since I switched, and I have not looked back.

Linux Mint here took two Windows desktops/laptops out of service, and replaced them with one laptop. I also have not looked back.

As opposed to the buyers just buying a PC?

Resulting in many add-ons no long working?