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by jerf 1629 days ago
"Anyone can just reinstall the operating system from the OEMs supplied OS installation media or the user can provide their own operating system."

A careful examination of who that "anyone" is will reveal that as "anyone"s go, it's not very "anyone". It's certainly less than 50% comfortable doing that, and even less willing (e.g., I know how but that doesn't mean I want to).

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Our society is so disenfranchised from tech that we can't type "reinstall" or "reset" into the search + follow prompts anymore.