Welcome to Canada, Ranjani Srinivasan. Let’s hope other targets of political oppression take your same path.

why people who don’t have children should subsidize those that do by paying school taxes.

Because when I grow old, I don’t want a society of young uneducated morons to be in charge.

It’s why I gladly pay school taxes even though I have never had a child, and never will. By funding education to the max, the chances that the next generation becomes even better educated than the last is improved dramatically.

And this is why conservatism is so hostile to education: it desperately needs the incoming generations to be as uneducated and stupid as possible in order to maintain its electorate.

VM

That still doesn’t solve 99.9% of my issues, it just tries to solve a problem for which I already have a solution actively in-place: a KVM.

In that way it’s become adversarial.

Back in the 2000s, I was able to say that while a fundamental install took only about a half hour to set up, usability tweaks and a full fleshing out of functionality took another 4-8 hours depending on what the user was going to use the machine for.

I just did a Win11 24h2 install. It took nearly 24 working hours before I considered it even minimally functional for my needs. Cycling through Win10Privacy two or three times was particularly frustrating. Registry work alone took me a good 8-10 hours of trying stuff a step at a time and then rebooting to see how it worked.

At this point, the only reason why I am still running with a Windows rig is for those half-dozen programs that don’t have appropriate non-Windows variants. It’s why I’m also running a Mac Mini and an OpenSUSE tower through the same 4-port, 6-head KVM.