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> The meme is still alive that windows accumulates garbage and becomes slower with time, so you need to reinstall it periodically. I've not needed to worry about this since Windows…

No it doesn't. I barely do anything to manage my Windows Installation. I install loads of garbage (I mostly still run the same programs as I did 15 years ago). I don't understand w…

I think it is counter productive to bring up ridiculous examples, which was obviously not what I meant.

> Anybody who is good with computers should be able to install linux Installation is not the same as support and isn't the same as trouble shooting. That why people distro hop. The…

You are only thinking of attacking computer directly itself. Often people socially engineer access to a computer system. Many UK super markets were hacked, using some of the softwa…

> At least two independent people understood you in the same way. So just dismissing it isn't productive. Two people that we are aware of. BTW, I often encounter this when talking …

> That claim is too generic to add anything to this discussion. Ok, everything has a trade off. Thanks for that fortune cookie wisdom. It isn't fortune cookie wisdom and no it isn'…

> The problem is that if what "really counts" is too vaguely defined, then it's hard to pin down and argue the point. It really wasn't. It isn't hard to understand what was meant. …

What happens when the OS that is running the browser fails to update because /boot has run out of room for a new Linux kernel (this happened to me the other week)? What happens whe…

> The typical user doesn't know how Windows works, and they can run that. That is because Windows for the most part manages itself and there are enough IT professionals, repairs sh…

No everything is a trade off. That is a reality of life in general. Anything that is proposed has a cost associated with it (time, money). That always has to be weighed up against …

No I am not. The example given was ridiculous and absurd and you are doing exactly the same thing. There is a big difference between basic memory protections and what was being dis…

> You've explained that flatpak has issues with file access and clipboard sharing. My iphone does sandboxing too, but the clipboard works just fine on my phone. > I don't think "fa…

> You seem to be arguing that adding complexity reduces freedom, but I don't think that's true in a reasonable interpretation of the word No I am not arguing that at all.

> I think a lot of it is "nobody has bothered building it yet" vs security. All of this takes considerable time, money to build and after that you need to get people to buy into it…

> Huh? In what way does application sandboxing take away my freedom? What can I do today that I can't do with a sandbox-everything-by-default model? I've just explained that sand-b…

A lot of it already exists in one form or another and the trade-off for sand-boxing is usability a lot of the time. It isn't even a freedom vs security. It is usability vs security…

> At the limit, sure, maybe there are tradeoffs between freedom and security. But there's lots of technical solutions that we could build right now that give a lot more safety with…

All of these existed well before mobile phones and so called "enforced security". Almost all these apps are wrappers around web functionality.

Everything in life is about trade-offs. Certain trade-offs people aren't going to make. - If you want to run an alternative operating system, you got to learn how it works. That is…

> R.E. scaffolding in C#, with upcoming .NET 10, it's really simple: - Write code to myfile.cs - `dotnet run myfile.cs` > That doesn't need scaffolding either. And the standard lib…

> 10W constant over 10 years would cost me 275 euro. €2.30 per month. Which is almost nothing. > Over 20years it will cost me ~2800 euro in today's prices. That is €11 a month over…

> C# does not require scaffolding any more than Python does. They've changed so much in the last few years I honestly don't know anymore. Which is part of the entire problem. The l…

I learned the basics in maybe a day almost 20 years ago now. I could make a page template with PHP and style that in maybe a day. This was back when IE6 was dominate, I don't think…

> Okay, and? I didn't make the claim that some other language was all that. I was dispelling the claim that Python is. I believe that people should RTFM. Any arguments that is pred…