You might, I think I would (at least personally, professionally I may not have a choice) but the vast majority of people will gladly go with this plan I suspect.

Look at car purchasing, most people don’t look at the sticker price or the total cost of ownership, they stop paying attention as long as their income can (and in a lot of cases it technically can but really shouldn’t) support the monthly payment.

Similar thing with new phones, most people buy a service plan that includes a lease or loan on a device. Very few people buy their sevice outright, because that’s a big purchase vs. a smaller monthly payment.

If there was a market for this for laptops, regular folks would eat it up.

That’s all opinion, so take it for what it’s worth. I hope I’m wrong. I’m fearful I’m not.

Off topic, I know, but I’m curious what you’re reading about the next ice age. Always found that history interesting, but never thought to look toward the next one.

That maybe true if youre single shotting. At some point, but that’s rarely the end. It takes iteration and experience to get LLMs to do useful work in most cases.

What do you mean not Linux friendly? Some of the legacy windows components of .net are not being supported, but that’s because there are alternatives that are better. ImageSharp is a huge improvement over system.drawing.