What are tech companies going to do when customers go an increasing amount of years between purchases?

Ignore them and continue selling almost exclusively to businesses and manufacturers?

those jobs just pivoted

How many car jobs are there now compared to however many horse jobs there used to be?

I feel like it’s many many fewer jobs, and the horse jobs did more of a disappearance than a pivot. But I don’t know it.

Does anyone here have data?

Installing packages, and software updates also require sudo permissions. Which means to keep a password nearby or easy to remember which is hard when Windows never required it for the longest time.

Macs also require a password now and then. I’m pretty sure windows does too, unless they somehow changed that in recent years.

I guess you can configure Macs to use a fingerprint reader instead of a password but that’s mostly a trap — it just means you don’t have to use your password often enough to remember where you wrote it down. Also fingerprint readers don’t work well for old people with papery dry thin skin (certainly not for my mother anyhow)

Not really much point comparing modern Linux to Windows XP on security inconvenience

This was an awesome read, thank you

That statue is St Patrick though not Jesus