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Every time I saw someone I know built a PC, they reused the license key from their previous one. And the first one was a free key from their university.

It definitely happens though!

Fair enough. To me the fact people don't do it and that it's rare is perfectly expected. In other words, I would be surprised if people commonly did that, but they don't, so I don't see anything surprising. But I can see your point of view, it's looking at it a bit differently.

I'm talking about operating systems. Not a pc that is packaged with one.

So yes, looks like I correctly understood what you are trying to say, and agree with you that buying a standalone operating system is weird. But nobody does that.

Looks like you consider buying something in a bundle to not be buying it, which is a valid opinion, though myself I disagree. Most OS purchases happen in a bundle with a PC, and every time I bought a laptop I asked for Windows to be removed from the bundle, which made it cheaper a bit (as I was going to install Linux anyway). If removing Windows from the bundle is making it cheaper, then clearly you were buying it and paying for it for when you don't, as most people do.

Oh throught a third party tool, thanks, interesting.

Where are these surprising purchases then? People either use it for free, in which case they haven't paid for it, or they bought it in a bundle with their PC, which is again very common.

Who is actually buying Windows standalone?

I think what you are trying to say is "buying an OS not as part of a package deal is surprising". To that I would agree.

But most people are buying an OS as part of a package deal, so most purchases of an OS are not surprising.

How is it surprising people pay for operating systems? The vast majority of computers sold are bundled with an operating system license, and most people just use what came with the computer.

Are you sure? I don't think you can.

Regardless of the meme, it's just weird behaviour to print off a meme, in presumably tens of copies, and leave it on every desk. Don't you have a group chat?

Drugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.

As someone who never played this game, the image seems to be of a mouldy orange, with the highlighted part being the stem.

I'm probably wrong though.

I was buying a PC case and was surprised to find out it's actually not trivial to find one without a transparent side panel.

I don't want to see the inside of my PC, ideally it should be hidden away as much as possible. My ideal setup would be to have the tower in a separate room with cables going through a wall so that only peripherals are anywhere near my desk.

Or just playing games with higher graphics settings that the Steam Deck wouldn't be able to run.

Yes, it was really bad.

I question your assertion that it was purposefully done as a secret conspiracy to ruin a random brand. Don't attribute to malice what can adequately explained by stupidity.

No, they weren't trying to ruin the brand, they were trying to make a YouTube video, made a bad job with multiple compounding mistakes, and ended up hurting the brand without that being their intention.

Hah, yeah I guess he does own goal to protect others often.

That's an egregious mistake of a logistics employee wrongly asset tagging a prototype, ending up creating a huge controversy. Linus never named the employee and took all the heat on himself even though the situation had nothing to do with him.

Making a big deal out of Honey taking creator's money would again move all the heat on him while warning other creator's. But I think it would go just as bad.

I presume the detection is so that it can send you a notification for "someone at your doorstep" vs "package at your doorstep", not for when you are actually looking at the footage.

So the scenario is that they know Honey is losing them money, but it's saving user's money by finding them great deals (since that part of the controversy wasn't known at the time).

And you are proposing they make a video complaining about it. A big YouTuber millionaire telling people "hey, I know this extension is making you money, but please consider not using it because we are profiting off of our affiliate links less when you do and our profits are more important than your savings".

How do you think that would go? We all know how such a video would be received.

I guess "person" would be a useful one.

I am aware

Waymo said they detected it as an inanimate object, as opposed to an animate object like an animal. It's only the article author that made a reference to humans.