I can’t tell from that text if it’s going to be 30$ a year for up to 3 years per user or if the doubling clause in the How much does ESU Cost? section applies to home users or not - if so, total outlay will be 30+60+120 = 210$.

It’s batshit

After October 14, 2025, computers running Windows 10 will still function, but Microsoft will no longer provide the following:

• Technical support of any issue
• Software updates
• Security updates or fixes

Source

for instance, fresh install of debian 12 (using cinnamon, but gnome3 would have the same problem since the issue is in gnome-calculator), try to open calculator - it freezes. why? because some … we’ll say, extremely inexperienced developer put a blocking call to a bunch of banks for their latest exchange rates so that you could convert money right in the application!

not only is this not a mission critical feature for a simple calculator, but there is no way in hell that an error to a live service should block the main thread for the application if it’s waiting on a response (successful or otherwise). why would this exist? how has this not been rolled all the way back until said feature isn’t there? wild.