Because there isn’t a home internet option. Our landline stopped existing a couple years ago so I can either pay musk (lolno), drop several thousand on a mobile repeater that’ll hit the exact same issues on busy days, or just use my phone.

80 per month for unlimited data is better than my home internet used to be anyway, that’s 160KB/s for the last 15 years sucked.

Mobile data. I leave my house, my house no longer has internet. Makes the solution of download shit while at work not particularly useful.

It’s also very very slow and I watch a lot of videos at 240p and 360p.

If I’m buying any new drive, it’s going in the laptop so I get more total storage.

I don’t have a home network so a NAS isn’t a great option.

Raid 0 is what my laptop shipped with for… Whatever reason MSI had. And I didn’t bother to change it when I probably should have knowing that redownloading all my data on a connection that doesn’t reliably run HD video is a miserable and long process.

I have important paperwork backups on my phone, and/or emailed to myself but literally the basic process of downloading and installing steam is slow as hell and means the internet can’t be used for anything else.

Removing raid is a multi month problem due to losing all the data, or a few hundred in new SSDs to backup stuff. Removing raid the moment I got the laptop would’ve been the smart idea, but I didn’t do that so I’m not gonna do it until I get a new laptop.

I have 3 lying around somewhere. Comes in handy every few years

You are underestimating how long it takes to do anything that requires internet (everything does). There’s 0 point booting Linux without games, and games take days to download, sometimes days per game. Also, I already fixed windows, so the effort is entirely wasted.

The effort to change from windows is greater than the continued use of windows when i already have solutions to the trash windows puts out.

I couldn’t even be fucked unraiding the drives my laptop came with, even though I don’t want them in raid it’s just… eh, it probably won’t be an issue before the laptop gets replaced in 5 years

The solution is a desk pad. If 100% of the desk is a mouse pad you are never in the wrong spot.

I’ve deleted my account like 4 times and if I try it now, untouched for 2 years since the last ‘deletion’ I bet it’ll just log in.

So yeah if there’s nothing sensitive just ignore it.