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MS Office is available for Linux and Linux is an option on Azure. Even some new games from the Xbox division are officially sanctioned to run on Linux.
There is no longer a good reason to stay in a walled garden for your personal machine. The author should just make the switch if staying in the Apple ecosystem, or any other closed system, makes him really unhappy
Robots might make it a little less terrible.
If you really value freedom over everything else, I don’t see value in putting bad bandages over closed platforms. Might as well just switch to an open one.
A big issue is cost and economic opportunity. For example, a lot of land in the SF Bay Area cannot be developed. This is great for the environment, but not so great for housing costs.
Long term, it’s likely worth it to save the environment, but let’s not ignore its immediate cost to everyone besides the upper class.
We’re using precious resources like missiles that we will need in the Pacific theater in next 1-2 years
A lot of ISPs need permitting that they will never get in order to enter a new market/location.
2. Even if there was magically enough money and time to retrain people, they would still be short of workers.
Also, none of the Bush’s ran on an “America First” isolationist political campaign. Even own base is fracturing because of this.