Probably less than the number of entertainment careers that have been created by mixing politics with music.
I totally see it, and I am totally here for it.
Be a kid: scared of house burning down.
Be an old homeowner: scared of water, and house burning down would save me a lot of work, lol.
This version gives me Christopher Lee vibes, and we all know how much Saruman loves floods.
It sounds like we need some rubber ducky mental health care!
It has worked for so many programmers.
Remember that M365 stuff works in a browser too!
I am not going to argue that some people -- both creative and technical -- don't have a need for the native apps. If your line of work standardized on a Microsoft product, fair enough.
If you are not one of those people though (and you have a choice, of course) Teams & Outlook work great as webpages, and they have web versions of the rest of the office suite which I assume work fine for occasional work. I'll usually just try LibreOffice with the file anyway and it works fine.
I submit as the most wince-worthy example of 20 year old console game graphics:
Yeah, and I think it's a symptom of a cultural problem where people think prosperity means essentially not having to do anything. The ideal is to sit on your ass and consume, while never having to create.
But when you don't do anything for yourself and have AI or hired help do it so that you can go back to scrolling the dopamine treadmill, you eventually don't know how to do it even if you wanted to. Losing knowledge, skills, and attention span means getting more stupid, kinda by definition.
This negative feedback loop is a form of conditioning, and it is not in our best interests. It is in the interests of advertisers, psychological manipulators, tech barons, and others who are generally the worst.
In my case, the more I have consciously decided to take care of my own shit -- in various aspects of life -- the better I have felt. It's not the one secret to a fulfilling life, but it's an important one. And yes damn it, I sometimes use dashes.
Especially after the Fox News "40 Days and 40 Nights of Bible Release Coverage!"
Excluding people because of their conscious choices and actions is something that basically every human organization and government does on a daily basis.
Excluding people because of racial/religious labels is something bigots do and it is often illegal for the organizations mentioned above to do it.
It all comes down to how long of a string of words/characters you allow.
That would make sense if you wanted to do what was best for the user rather than push the Chosen Product.