They’d be starving after waiting for 3 days.

That problem happened because there was no way to travel from town to town quickly so if the clocks were off nobody cared. The trains changed that.

In the short term it really helps productivity, but in the end the reward for working faster is more work. Just doing the hard parts all day is going to burn developers out.

There is no need for a separate sound card now, it is built in.

Active Directory, for joining an account in a network.

It is probably Home vs. Professional. Home has no AD either.

In personal experience there has been a big rise of Linux on the server and more people being forced to get used to it. Docker is pushing this along even more now. We are seeing the continued rise in osx and improvements in the Linux desktop. Moving away from windows is becoming more acceptable now, even in corporations. This will continue!