Especially when using an os you're not familiar with

Where do you draw the line between suppliers increasing prices and ransom-ware?

Exactly, self host if you don't want to be part of that risk.

Never noticed it in the past "forced" HW upgrades. There was the XP -> vista movement, then windows 7... it goes on.

The HW manufacturers that matter have had years to prepare, so their old stock that matters has been priced to sell, sort of.

The only thing that changed anything was covid, there were lots of new desktop/laptop sales. Ryzens jumped in performance around that time too, probably OEMs demanding chips faster meant AMD could invest more. Maybe just speculation.

A mini PC isn't that far from a laptop with a broken screen. They both need DC input, rather than AC, so if it fits your needs, you can use an old laptop rather than a mini PC, it even comes with UPS in the form of onboard battery.

That lock-in used to be called the Microsoft/Intel devil alliance.

Anyway, Steam is gaining users and many of them will be Linux/proton users.

Like this one?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendof10.org%2F

Shifting data around can take effort, if it's too much effort, get a new PC anyway and put Pop! OS on that. If you don't get on, put Windows on it then, less invested that way.

You're assuming the data is important. It obviously wasn't meant to be treated as important, but users were using it as such.

"was used by government staff to keep documents and other files. Each worker was allocated 30GB of space"

Similar things would probably happen if workers are fired and the G Drive storage is purged as they exit. This is really an example of poor file system hygiene and group ownership.

Eggsactly.

This is a management failure. Calling RTO won't solve laziness. Might even make it easier to wonder around with paper in hand waffling to anyone.

Eggs and bacon in this case.

"rear" lights in this case

Ok but aside from sanitation and roads, what have the Romans ever done for us?

> Crimson Collective

Pardon me for pointing out the obvious, but that sounds like a group name specific for this.

If only Google were in a position where they look after mailboxes...