this cold war propaganda belongs in a museum

"planes .. viable"

continuing to have a habitable planet should maybe be worth more to you than saving max. ~10 hours of journey time getting from one side of a continent to another.

19 downvoters bringing a strong "shooting the messenger" energy

or you could let everyone work half as many hours for the same pay, but sure why should anyone except business owners get to benefit 🙄

changing names when getting married isn't the same as one partner changing their name to the other's, who doesn't change theirs...

I feel like if bombing anywhere could help make more trains then Davos during the WEF, or Washington DC, would be about 100 places further up the list, even if it wouldn't give you the same bloodthirsty nationalist ahistorical satisfaction. But it seems unhinged to think anyone needs to die at all...

this just sounds even less believable: you're in a jursidiction where the amount of data you have to store on students is exactly specified, and you're liable to prosecution for storing any single piece of data less or more? I would appreciate extraordinary evidence for this extraordinary claim.

anyway, even if that's true, you could be using your knowledge to help privacy-conscious students like OP, instead of throwing a rulebook at them and casting aspersions about their motivations. I return to "reconsider your views, and the impact of your job".

"downtown is .. shitty" so move to the "shitty" area, help make it better.

unless you mean "I am prepared to live in a car-brained hellscape as long as my neighbours are all white" as most suburbanites have done through history, in which case please move into the sea

this is the kind of thinking that gave us names like "pcmasterrace". words mean things, their origins matter

(some might say that justifying the planned obsolescence practice of shortening phone lifespans by making battery replacement more difficult by saying it's because it's the only way to achieve features that people demanded - who asked people what features they wanted on phones, anyway? - is doing free PR for phone companies, but I think that point has been made way better than I could, in many other comments which you seem to have not read)

To be clear, I hope places just cut straight to Linux, I'm saying it seems likely there'll be a transition period. It still takes time to retrain on a different word processor or spreadsheet software, especially if you've been using Microsoft's 20+ hours a week.

I think you're right that government departments would use Linux in the long term… seems to me it could take months, if not years, for workers to learn all the new ways of doing things, virtualise / wrap / port any Windows-only software they're using, replace or write drivers for any non-Linux-supporting hardware they use, and fill any holes in accessibility tech – I've heard that JAWS is a long way ahead of Linux equivalents.

Setting up a fake license server, or rolling out something like MAS using Group Policy might make a lot of sense in the meantime...