The piece of paper you're talking about is useful to exchange goods.
The cryptographic token is not because it's too volatile and transactions are costly.
There is a reason the only things using Bitcoin as an actual currency are illegal things, buying credit card numbers or paying for ransomware.
You can argue that owning a piece of a company who generates value is not the same thing as owning some useless cryptographic token.
It's not weird, you can ask the recruiter or even the developer doing the interview what is the work environment (i.e. at the end, "do you have any question for me"). It's a perfectly valid question.
You don't have to go into details and go into a flamewar about Windows, at most just mention that it's not your preference.
I think it's better to avoid talking about how you "absolutely cannot tolerate", "hate" a given platform because that in itself could be a red flag to some interviewers. If you feel this way about Windows, maybe you'll feel this way about frameworks/libraries that has already been picked and be a pain to work with.
It failed because they didn't give it enough time to succeed. Google had enough money to invest in Stadia at a loss for many years until it eventually succeeds, but instead they just confirmed their image of randomly cancelling products.
Only if you don't count mac laptops as "desktop"
The math still stands even with those numbers
Maybe it didn't go up as fast because of it
Another distribution doesn't mean segregation. Diversity and compatibility is the strength of Linux.
Yes it comes with a small cost, but without it Linux wouldn't have the success it has today.
Forget about gaming chairs, they're overpriced for the sake of looking like a racecar seat.
Look at office chairs. For example https://www.autonomous.ai/ have good chairs at reasonable prices.
Still, self driving and generative AI are very different. Just because they fall into the same big "AI" bucket doesn't mean it's the same.
Also you can only use it on roads built by Apple!
The increase is probably mostly India, and it's possible you don't hang on online in the same places as Indians.