Yes it really does. I use both Linux and Windows daily and for most office and gaming tasks windows is much much easier to setup and get going in. I say this as a technical/person/engineer and not just an average user.
An individual setting up a network of 200-400 cameras throughout a city would not be lega because of property usage I would assume. Not necessarily because of the recording. A llone person doing this would definitely raise more eyebrows.
To add to this: one of Anthropic's big quality problems this year was claude code began leaving out the reasoning when a chat was idle for X period of time and was revived. They said it was to avoid delay and make it feel better but it was during a huge capacity crunch so probably just something they felt compelled to do. Without the reasoning in the history model performance degraded greatly when the chat continued.
Because willingly throwing away your safety from the government and the oligarchs for a tale as old as time, "think of the kids", is irrational to say the least.
That's why I say "contributors" rather than "members". It would be like an open-source project with contributor guidelines. But instead of source code people are sharing text and media.
For me, the simple shift of moving to eating 0.7g of protein per pound of body weight every day did it... It was not enough on it's own (I also eat more fiber, less fat, less carbs, though less does not mean none), but that alone was a night and day difference, and enough to change the story.
Favorite story I heard about voting was an anecdote relating to the flight computers on one of the Boing 7xx jets (probably the 757, but I don't know).
The story was that they were planning to fly with 3 computers, and that they would "vote" on important decisions.
The real trick was that they intended to build those computer with 3 separate teams, using clean room implementation (no coordinating with the other teams), and that they were going to use 3 separate CPU architectures, and even 3 different implementation languages.
As I understand it, they conceded on the language choice, they were all going to use the same language, but I don't know about the rest.
The goal was to avoid some catastrophic "unknown unknown" that might have crept into the implementation if they simply rolled out 3 copies of the same system.
The big advantage of writing in cursive is speed and less muscle fatigue. Writing in cursive requires far less lifts of the pen and far less tiny movements... a reasonable cursive script (Spencerian, but with a little less flourish) is quite easy to write legibly and with speed, with just a little practice.
The junk that used to be taught in US schools (a type of Palmer cursive) it not fun to read or write.
BUT, the above analysis only really applies to people who want to write, and want to write a lot.
(Apologies for repeating my reply from above here as well.)
