ClemFandango

I play guitar/bass, and I’ve played in bands and by myself, but this represents an entirely different and interesting skillset. Rhythm games are a skill in their own right, the visual element of what they’re simulating is somewhat inconsequential - the guitar controller could just be a stick or even a regular controller and the gameplay is roughly the same. Maybe the drum controller for rock band(?) is a close analogy, but it misses the point so to speak

I'll be honest in saying that I didn't consider the American experience. The article and video in question was about the Japanese Anime industry, which as far as I could see, works by contract direct to animation studios, without union representation.

Understandable, but it's beside the point. The point is that legally mandated (and enforced!) employment agreements should exist regardless of the amount of people vying for jobs.

Is nobody going to address the series of elephants in the room here? Even the embedded video in the article didn't say anything about it, and the author's proposed and current solution is more or less a social band-aid. These animators need to unionise, or demand full-time/part-time employment conditions that are outside of their current contractual arrangement if they want to see any progress. At least then they should come under some kind of minimum wage law. Lamenting the issues of the industry as if they are some kind of force of nature that is part-and-parcel with the nature of the work seems intentionally ignorant to me. They only have to suffer these conditions because of the companies they are working for.

It's all well and good for the commenters here to say that dream jobs will often have hard conditions, but that doesn't necessarily have to be so if we have government or union enforced labour conditions that aren't predatory.

It's not perfectly legal, but reasonably more legal than the alternative (a key bought from a reseller). Those stickers are meant to be affixed to a machine sold by a reseller, and is only meant to be used for that machine. If the machine is destroyed and the sticker/key is kept, then it can be used, and it does register Windows Professional/Home installation rather than an Enterprise/Education installation, but is in violation of the TOS that it's provided under.

That being said it is difficult to shed a tear for Microsoft of all companies over this practice.

I'm not sure if this could be considered a niche audience, but I install Adobe Reader by default on user machines, mainly because the built in readers with Chrome or Edge don't handle printing natively very well, due to not using the system's print settings immediately. You can bypass it with a shortcut and make changes, but it's not so great when users will select print and click ok, it's difficult to educate them against that. It's much easier to use Acrobat Reader and set it to open by default in that. So this may be the install base, SMB and schools, some large enterprise as well.

Whether that preference will get changed back to edge in a feature update is another story.

Business won't be the one to push the change on this attitude. It has to be people, or at best government. Most companies are morally agnostic, they only follow the money, you can judge them for it either way, but it's the truth.