They baked license server checks into their local installed apps, so now they can just "flip a switch" to disable access.

Worse, it's Office 2021 too:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/update-microsoft-365-or-office-on-your-macos-or-ios-device-f418ae5d-bb5f-4078-b3d9-9340f5dd084e

LPT: Your Shield can run Lineage OS

Perfect summation of US politics right there. There are ways around these limitations like ranked-choice voting (or similar), but both parties have a vested interested in actively blocking any change that could potentially break up their monopoly. In the meantime, our options are basically to continue trying to vote in more progressive candidates to represent us (and hope they don't get corrupted as quickly by corporate-run politics), or take more "aggressive" action and become a targetted enemy of the state.

I feel happy!

He actually had a couple cameo appearences in ST Enterprise. Not my fav ST incarnation, but I was happy to spot him.

Not again

I'm never showering with you.

"I'm gonna sink her with my pink torpedo..."

Mine is on Debian 13; I love my little 13" 2012 MBP!