Open letter to Microsoft

Dear people at Microsoft, Last year I rebuilt my desktop PC. Made sure it was all compatible, stable, reliable and tested new hardware. My previous Desktop PC had Win7 x64 and Linux Debain dual-booting. So at first I installed Linux on my new hardware, and ran a lot of Windows apps through wine and virtual options, but they still left a lot to be desired. I love debian for servers, would never do without it, but linux on desktop still does not entirely do it for me, I miss certain tiny tools and software, my USB-audio interface (Lynx Hilo) didn't function to its full extent, and performance differences are still very much apparent in some libraries and drivers (that is to say; Working natively in Windows they perform a lot faster). So I decided to install Windows 10 to dual-boot next to Debian. Install for that went fine. I decided to try and find out if I could actually like Windows 10, I used it on my super-fast desktop hardware for 3 weeks continuously (after killing all the snooping and stuff I didn't like it doing behind my back), but it gave me so many blue-screens (I've photographed all of…

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Debating the causes of global warming is now irrelevant, the only debate of any worth is 'How badly is the earth f'd and how much longer will it be before we have catastrophic warming'? It's too late to stop things now. How to have it evolve without overly violent painful behavior along the way? We don't want powerful 'leaders' to resort to nuclear attacks 'because it doesn't matter anymore', or ideas like that to take hold of humanity. We don't have to end without dignity, we can arrange a peaceful demise, if only politicians would be prepared to see that's the only way to go. Honestly, I'd advise against more procreation a.s.a.p. That way we could plan for a decent civilized end-scenario, instead of resource depleted migratory disasters taking over day to day life. I doubt it will be possible, but one can dream.

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