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by bcrosby95 1135 days ago
The computer doesn't ask for annoying things like a paycheck or benefits either.
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Money upfront and a small salary in the form of electricity bills.
My Windows computer is always demanding updates and reboots. And when it goes to sleep it sometimes doesn't wake up. It's quite annoying.
Meh, universal healthcare for PC's can easily be avoided by denying maintenance until they die and a new crop is purchased. At least at scale. For any individual user the friction of switching hardware may still incentivize some minimal checkups, i.e., keep windows update & defender services running and let them reboot the system no more than once every two two months.

Figure the local router port-forwarding will protect against the most obvious threats and otherwise hope your personal BS filter doesn't trojan in some ransomware. If it does & it's a person pc then wipe (more likely buy) a new machine, lose some stuff, and move on. If it's a corporate pc, CYA & get your resume together.

As my own CYA: These are not my own recommended best practices and I don't advocate them to anyone else as either computer, legal, or financial advice.