Just to doompost a bit more about the UK, it really has gone full dictatorship over here. I may need to research it a bit more but aside from trying to get rid of jury's ( yes I'm not joking ) They're wanting to also tack on the ability for courts to give people maximum 2 year jail sentences.

This means if the police decide to take you in over a social media post or even standing out of the way at a protest you could be looking at 2 years in jail just because they don't like you, completely arbitrary. They are likely laying the legal groundwork for dealing with any unrest incidents this year especially when the weather warms up.

Living here just isn't feasible for anyone with a functioning brain.

I need it because I'm on Unreal Engine 5 for some of my projects and Linux enjoyed deliberately breaking shit when I tried to use any other 'open source' software.

That's great, some of us need Windows for work.

Looking at the Windows 11 problems I still have my suspicions about people being normie retards and not admitting it:

. They clearly don't know how to setup a local account ( Yes it's still possible in Windows 11 )

. They bitch about sign in pestering that can be bypassed

. Terrible at messing with settings and quite tech illiterate ( A lot of them have the default appearance enabled as an example, you can make it behave like Windows 10 and move the icon to the left )

. They're installing debloat software they downloaded from a suspicious source on github ( Likely Indian ) which is probably the main cause of the BSODs but they won't admit this

. Don't have any understanding of BIOS settings despite playing themselves off as 'gamers' and they should understand now that modern multiplayer games are invasive as fuck when it comes to anti-cheat which is why they pester about secure boot settings

. Running on ancient Windows 10 OS systems and fucked themselves because they didn't upgrade not only their OS but their PC early enough before the RAM and SSD shortage like I did

And these people are trying to make it out they're going to hop onto Linux and everything will work fine for them LOL. Half their shit is going to break on Linux too because they'll have no idea what they're doing so they'll probably end up dual booting anyway. Or it will be classic Linux compatibility issues.

Kids today didn't grow out the womb like I did using MS-DOS prompts and 56k connections.

Possibly an unpopular opinion, even though vibe coding is going to be ruining Microsoft I have my suspicions that a lot of people are running weird shit on Windows 11 possibly strange de-bloat software that they shouldn't be and that's why they're having problems.

Big caveat of course, I haven't as of yet run into any problems but I'm wondering what the hell these people are doing to their PCs lol. Since the beginning of the internet too many normies try to install crap on their PCs and tinker with shit they don't understand.

People have no fucking idea how much code goes into a simple inventory system holy shit.

We've had this problem in the UK for decades as well. Even third world connections generally have faster speeds than us. I was extremely lucky and some indie company came along and has been supplying proper fibre broadband at last and I immediately switched and didn't look back.

Now the broadband companies are slowly playing catch up which is hilarious, they've been ripping this country off for years. The worse one by far is Virgin Media, they're about as bad as the US equivalent of Comcast. They frequently oversell their broadband and throttle their speeds causing all kinds of problems, I hate virgin media with a passion.

I'm so fucking glad I don't have to deal with that shit anymore. Never ever support the broadband companies if you can pick a different option which is one of the beautiful things about Starlink.

My ultimate fantasy mobile setup would be something like Starlink + Steam Deck + Mini Projector. You could even get ridiculous with it maybe and have some kind of easy to assemble canvas for the projector to get a nice clear picture.

Edit: As it turns out yes they have those lol.

Starlink is something I'm seriously considering depending on where I move abroad. Would happily pay for it even if it's a tad on the higher end depending on the package.

You have to bear in mind you can have Starlink pretty much anywhere and it won't be a problem. There have been people who have filmed themselves going camping in the middle of nowhere having their Starlink connection on which is wild to me and blows my 90's era brain.

Would love to make my millions ( Or not even that much ) with game dev and fuck off like that.

I mean some of it's going to be funny, because all these smug pricks who have main character syndrome and thought they were going to be immune are going to get laid off hard. I do feel sorry for the ones that are just trying to do the right thing though. So many of them are going to be out of the office with cardboard boxes and potentially homeless because they got a mortgage on a house well beyond their means. They got lied to hard about university in particular and a lot of them know it I think, it's the smug ones that are going to be hit hardest because they still cling to I have a university degree superiority.

It's going to be like what everyone saw in the 2008 sup-prime mortgage crisis but infinitely worse because people have been jacking up credit on everything now.

To go on a mini-tangent Christmas has made me realise just how unbelievably out of touch normies are about the state of the economy. On the flip side, it makes me realise how ahead of the curve I am.

Job security is non-existent, you either live it yourself being one of the unlucky ones or you study the economy and can see it unfolding before your eyes how pointless it all is. The days of getting a 9 to 5 and thinking you're going to be able to pay off a mortgage with just that are fucking gone nevermind the bills on top of it.

The normies don't get it at all and think that anybody who tries to work outside that system is just an unemployed NEET loser and doesn't understand the concept of freelance work, remote work or projects etc. or the fact that the internet is an amazing educational resource in the right hands.

Right or left, they do this larp about being progressive and open minded but a good chunk of them are some of the most close minded tradition obsessed people around and they sneer at anyone different. Universities are a classic example where they think you have to be like them and get 80k - 100k in debt to get anywhere in life. If you don't do the same thing as them it's like they're out on a mission to try and make your life miserable with lecturing.

They have no idea how wrong they're going to be. No one who actually values themselves and has the skill is going to work for some psychopath until they're 60 only to be fired before they can collect their pension and help the CEO buy their 4th Lamborghini.

TLDR: Red pilled people don't understand that they're about 10 - 15 years ahead of the game. Prepare accordingly for the mother of all financial crashes because there are tons of people who seriously believe it won't happen.

Never let family members buy you tech for presents, I actually don't know what a wifi repeater is and it sounds suspicious lol.

Edit: Looked it up, I tend not to bother with wi-fi at home, I had my house properly wired up with Ethernet.