I'd take it more seriously if the website wasn't in color and animated

There will never be any price you can pay MS to give up telemetry and tracking

I'm surprised some enterprising hackers haven't hacked the binaries to nuke telemetry permanently (one used to see lots of Win hacks in the past).

But then, perhaps I've not been looking hard enough (I mostly use Penguin).

I think some enterprising hackers have long ago switched to a less hostile OS.

Reckon that's true (I mostly use Linux). Trouble is, Windows has such wide usage and large legacy that one often can't avoid it (some important commercial/industrial software just won't work under, say, Wine no matter how much tweaking and unfortunately there's no Linux version).

To me this is the #1 reason this looks fake - nobody uses Mail for Windows, it probably doesn't support the security features available in O365, feels totally wrong for someone at MS.

What do you mean "fake"? It's a court document from a federal lawsuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_v._Microsoft

During the pandemic I built a number of simple indoor solar systems, setting panels in the lower part of my windows (I keep the shades open at the top) and hooking up to either a homegrown controller/battery/inverter system or a jackery.

The jackery is roughly 30% more expensive but feels a lot less fragile than my homemade stuff, and I've moved all my device charging (tablet/phone/power tool battery) charging over to these systems.

It was a fun project! Cabling is always the part that sneaks up on you so make sure to plan out the cabling / what plug types you want / crimp or buy / etc. ahead of time.

Yes, absolutely. Company B would have to compromise the service and change the rules.

Company B can instead spin up its own business and ask Company A to advertise for them, but anything else is just selling out users.

My pi3b with 3 512GB flash drives streams perfectly in 720p and uses less power than the lamp next to the sofa, what a time to be alive

I'm perusing the Fabric docs and they are using Delta Lake, Spark and Azure Databricks as part of that solution

Fabric does not use Databricks, but both Databricks and Fabric rely heavily on Delta. Let's just hope that they remain compatible.

Ah, so we're in the "extend" portion of the process

2 months ago they had a blog post titled "bit.io’s new pricing Always available. Guaranteed performance. No surprises."

Surprise!

Yep, I've used them once many years ago and they didn't have this option for what i was trying to do. Just sent this question to their support.

They replied and said they can't do it.