Your excluding a good segment of the population if you are basing it on those who frequent Lemmy’s forums.

Kids likely don’t frequent forums like Lenny. Parents are usually too busy to care about said forum.

That just leaves childless adults. Which is likely why you see such a bias

So uhhh where are you getting all these EMPs from?

Civ III was the height of the Civilization franchise.

Exactly which means superior build quality and a great experience. Parents will be snapping these up in the fall for back to school.

No legal argument is necessary. Just look at history. The rich and well connected have always lived by a different set of rules.

See below:

• Robert Richards (Du Pont heir): A 2014 Forbes article noted that a Du Pont heir, Robert Richards, pleaded guilty to raping his 3-year-old daughter in 2008 and received probation instead of jail time, which caused public outrage.

• August Busch IV: August Busch IV, a former Anheuser-Busch CEO, has been involved in past legal incidents, including a girlfriend’s overdose death at his house in 2010 and a car crash in 1983, but he was not charged with rape in these cases. 

  WRAL +3

I knew the Orange Buffoon could help fucking up the oil markets like he’s fucked up every other market. I put a ton of money into US oil futures and now hopefully I’ll make some money on his idiocracy.

2000, 2006, 2012

You aren’t wrong. But what you just described is exactly why most companies choose thin clients.

No customization, no unauthorized software installs, no distractions for staff and they will just run forever without major updates. All IT has to do is maintain a server or offsite cloud environment.

Would I personally want one… no. But I can see this as an alternative to non techie people who just need a cheap computer for email, web browsing and the occasional word document.

I doubt that very much. When I visited they had signs notifying the public of land mines around major parks in the countryside or mountains. There were even areas the locals told us not to venture to as they still had land mines dating back to WWII that hadn’t been fully cleared.