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  • I have personally logged two support tickets with Microsoft, support tickets that use paid-for tokens my company gets a limited number of per year. Even when providing a reproducible to Microsoft support, they just waste my time. Round and round goes the support ticket until I give up and they close the ticket. I have some friends who report the same experience.

    Pretty effective on their part. They get paid to do jack shit and get a nice ‘ticket closed’ in their logs. Probably great for advancement, just look at those KPIs!








  • Universities have more clout, generally higher admission standards, generally talked about more, all resulting in more desirability. They translate this desirability into higher admission costs as people are willing to pay. This also lets them build out more facilities and advertise more, further reinforcing the cycle.

    I’m not sure how they compare to schools abroad, but Community Colleges in the US are significantly cheaper than Universities in the US. It might be worth looking into those.

    California, especially Los Angeles

    You are also looking at one of the most expensive places in the US. Everything costs more there. Also note that list is just cities. If you are outside a city, particularly in a cheaper state, prices drop even more.

    You have to remember that the US is like 50 not-so-little countries. You get very large variations between them.




  • Having the drivers installed is fine and, quite frankly, good; for exactly the reason you point out. When they aren’t being used they are only taking up disk space. And that is OK, nobody is particularly upset with Windows’ disk space.

    It is the RAM usage, telemetry, and other running processes that just don’t need to be running. These are the things that make a Windows setup so bloated. One doesn’t need to reach out and tell MS every time you open the start menu, one doesn’t need Candy Crush and One Drive ads appearing in the OS. There is no good way to turn all that off. That is just using resources and making the OS worse for users.