Udm14.com is a redirect for that as well

Not just owned by, but used by and for the organization. The fact that his wife has one too makes that very suspicious.

That’s pretty easy to get around with shell companies. The homes could be setup as a members-only “hotel”, owned by a nonprofit entity, with the shareholders being the person’s family.

I like the idea, but this won’t get there.

That’s not how eminent domain works. At all.

Eminent domain is when the government forces someone to sell their assets to the government. In exchange, the government must pay them the fair market value.

In other words, the government would be the one paying them all that profit.

FWIW, Office (or more accurately, everything that was part of Office) was renamed Microsoft 365 years ago, in 2020. That was long before the AI insanity.

You’re asking the wrong question. You should be asking “who is trying to use Windows without any Internet access at all?”

Which is definitely some people/situations. It’s not the standard user-centric use case that Microsoft expects, but it does exist.

A significant reason is they believe that since they had to suffer through it, so should you.

See also: student loans, cancer treatments

There’s still the same key problem - the memory chips have a very low available supply. Increasing the supply requires new semiconductor fabs to be built, which takes a very long time.

Outside of that, I guess it could be described as right-to-repair. If you have a bad stick of RAM, it’s likely that some or all of the chips are still good and could be reused.

Asus is a significant ODM, supplying boards for brands like HP. I’m not sure what lines/models they make today, but they are a lot bigger than just their consumer lines.

Normally, I assume that any screenshot of another site is just another repost. That it’s not original content for Lemmy, and not originally from the user posting it.

But a reverse image search shows this is the only place it exists (and for some reason, Google wants to AI it).