Especially with C work, I explain that adding debugging statements may obfuscate the bug they’re trying to find because of the changed memory map, especially if the bug is arising from an over/underwrite

I started my career on PDP-11/44 and moved to Xenix/Unix/Solaris as I progressed my way through several employers. Windows 3.1 had me as it was a step up from GEMOS and the affair lasted until Windows 95 when I got fed up with having to refresh every computer in my household annually and having to clear out the bloatware. All this time I was missing the low cognitive overhead of running Unix.

An SUSE CD made its way to me and I switched immediately. I was home! And I stayed that way until macOS came out with its BSD core which gave me both a tight GUI and *nix frameworks.

Windows is popular only because of its heavy-handed approach to OEMs and businesses, not because of its technical prowess.

Books: if I can buy a digital version and if it’s not priced over its paper counterpart, I buy. If it’s out of print and there isn’t a digital version from the publisher, I look for the digital version from anywhere. I did that once for a book series and when the publisher finally put out a digital version, I bought them.

It’s about access. The paywall has to be reasonable and the publishers should digitize “out-of-print” regardless of the cost to them. They can recoup the costs over time rather than counting “profits” in a quarterly window.

Blind readers should get the forever exemption. They should have braille/audio of any book, sold or not.