The Visitor is just an absolute emotional rollercoaster. Doesn't so much pull on the heartstrings, than drags them violently, spins them around it's head, and yeets them off a cliff.
Banger of an episode. A+++. Would cry into a pillow again.
I'm going to preface this by stating that it's my assumption and not fact:
O'Leary isn't daft. I don't like him and I don't like Ryanair, but he's done well with the brand from a financial perspective, in an industry that's all about the fine margins.
I'm quite sure your view is correct, it's probably only about the numbers - for better or worse. If Starlink was a cheaper alternative to most in the market, and their projected connectivity sales outweigh the operating and capital costs, there'd be Starlink all over Ryanair planes. As it happens, the numbers probably look a deep red on the spreadsheet so it's in the "fuck right off" box.
I've no love for either of them but it's still nice to see Elon getting a poke in the eye.
I'll be honest, I used Windows XP fairly extensively then switched to Lubuntu while learning about Windows 7. My workplace moved from NT4 to Windows 7, and then to Windows 10 which is the only versions I've had serious exposure to.
My only real experience of Vista and 8 has been installing it on folk's devices, patching them to a current state, and Ninite-ing them full of handy applications.
I'm afraid I can't speak authoritatively on the subject, however taking a step back - MS do have a record for driving hardware uptake with their system releases.
In theory it's not a bad thing - Unreal and Quake II (among many) requiring 3D accelerator hardware largely drove PC gaming into the lead for cutting edge graphics - but the type of hardware MS have been requiring has always been a bit of a clusterfuck - a prime recent example being the supposed requirement of a TPM board in a Win11 computer.
My anecdotal experience is that Vista - while pretty - is a bit of a bloatfest regardless of what hardware you run it on.
Would it? If I'm already a user on a local device, surely my parental code would suffice and turn a ludicrous process into a one (and a half) step process?
I meant, they're not mutually exclusive after all!