Yep, and the fact you can upgrade to new versions is amazing, only paying for the new parts, not a whole new printer.

You say that, but it applies to any store website, and yet most of them are abysmal.

But they did state the reasons, on their forums. At the time it was only known Honey steals money from affiliate link owners, not from users, and presumably it worked correctly for users.

So what do you think would happen if they encouraged viewers not to use it? “Hey we know this extension makes you money, but please don’t use it because we, millionaire YouTubers, are getting smaller profits when your do, and our profits are more important than your savings”. They checked with other creators, most of YouTube stopped promoting it at the time, and that was it. It would be seen as very self-serving to complain about it to users/viewers.

I’m just explaining how people end up with high uptimes despite not keeping their computer on all the time. There is no purpose to “padding your uptime”.

When you hibernate, “uptime” counts it even though the computer is off, as it’s more of a “time since cold boot”.

So I turn off my computer every day, but have an uptime of weeks now.

It was already launched for non-Valve hardware. Not for any hardware though, just a Lenovo handheld.

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.

The are absolutely ways to have a 100% anonymous and private age verification. None of the parties here are interested in implementing them though.

Are you sure? I don’t think you can.

Or mall and the 30 min walk home while carrying shopping bags.

The article says the drugs were being sent to the US.

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?

That’s heavy

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