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Cars (and seatbelts) are the biggest reason I see. Cloaks:

• get caught in the door,
• take up a lot of space,
• get tangled in seatbelts,
• limit seatbelt effectiveness by padding the wearer with the excess cloth

They’re great for pedestrians but not so much for motorists, cyclists, and motorcyclists.

Because genocide plus fascism is worse than genocide alone. Is this even a real question or are you just trolling?

Why do elephants have teeth on their feet!?

But why does it have teeth on its feet??

How so?

Beginning to conscript women as well as men does not equate to abolishing the military, or am I missing something?

Binning a sexist conscription system is not anything close to “binning the military”

Please do not kick me in the vas deferens.

What’s wrong with vulva?

Saving you a click:

Open the Settings app, scroll to Face ID & Passcode, then to Stolen Device Protection, and turn the switch on.

Pretty sure that’s not the case, unless you rewrite the entire disk every time you plug it in. Nothing is refreshing those magnetic domains.

Backwards: Driver Returns On Foot.

That was always one of my dads favorites.

I’m generally okay with the idea of “you can get it for free and we’ll include ads to pay for it, or you can pay instead”.

Where I’m definitely not okay is “you can pay, and we’ll include ads anyway.”

I have YouTube premium

Wow, so you pay them and they still screw you? Glad that’s a product I’ll never buy then!

Lots of great recommendations here. I’ll add some things:

1. Windows will be a great choice for something you are familiar with, but the current iterations are definitely heading in the direction of being advertising-filled messes. So it’s not a bad idea to look at alternatives.
2. Apple should be a good choice for a “just works” system without a lot of junk in it. But if you’re new to it there will be a learning curve. Software options are also more limited. AutoCAD looks to be your only major commercial CAD option there.
3. If you want to explore Linux, try a live usb stick and see what you think. It will feel very different and there will be a larger learning curve, but a liveUSB should be a risk free and relatively easy way to try it out and see if you love the difference or hate the change. If you still are interested at that point consider dual-booting or repurposing an older system for something to tinker with.
4. CAD in particular might be a sticking point. Windows will give you the most options. You didn’t mention whether you’re tied to a specific system as is common for a profession / livelihood or whether you’re open to options. If you’re able to look at alternatives— AutoCAD is on Mac and Windows, SolidWorks is on windows only. QCAD is a smaller option for 2D CAD on all three platforms and I’ve been happy with it for everything I’ve tried to do.

Thanks for clarifying, I also misinterpreted!

It might be wise to edit the post to say something like “overwhelmed” or “paralyzed by the choices”.

The second you install outlook

Well there’s the problem right there! :-D

40 GB is pretty rough and personally I’d say about 120 GB is the lowest if you want some wiggle room without needing to frequently tinker with finding free space. But 500 GB is way more than necessary at least for now.

That one can’t be removed but it looks like you can manually defragment specific files with the “contig” utility as described here: https://notes.ponderworthy.com/defragment-the-ntfs-mft-and-other-hidden-crucials-in-live-windows

Hopefully that will get you further!

You should be able to remove that file (and recreate it later). More info here: https://superuser.com/questions/819901/dangers-of-deleting-c-extend-usnjrnljdata#819976

I’ve run into this before, it’s mainly that windows is bad at identifying “unmovable” files. Just delete it as described in that link, try the shrink again, and recreate after.

Usual caveats apply: no guarantees, make sure there’s backups or no critical info on the system, if this messes up your system it’s on you, etc.

each $100 bill is worth more.

But the creation of each additional bill devalues the currency. At some point the value of all this paper money is negative because it’s not worth keeping and storing. The point at which they cross from positive to negative value would give them zero value, and they’d be equal.