Remember that interview with Don Lemon where Musk got heated over censorship?

Me too.

I mean. They could go with google and most ideally change nothing, or stay with the open source project and try to cut out a slice of the appstore pie for themselves.

Google can only do that if they can maintain grip on the market. This requires the likes of Samsung, who also contribyte to android, to move with them to their then propiatary solution. Google is not going to win this just with their Pixels.

Google closing android would ruffle a lot of feathers so it definitely wouldn’t be a given they would come out of that on top.

Apple has no problem existing outside of Google’s sphere of influence. And honestly if the android market would split and you’d get legitimately google-less phones with large app stores that google doesn’t control that would be fairly beneficial if you ask me.

If google where to close android it’ll undoubtedly be forked. Pretty sure the likes of Graphene and Calyx will be fine for the forseeable future.

As much as I’d love to take this at face value, people taking a run with what an AI told them is highly problematic.

now i throw my trash out the window.

You don’t believe not using paper towels was a net positive so now you choose to create and by extention live in a pigsty? I’m not following.

Dare I assume you are aware we have “industry” because we consume?

I’m aware of this, but it still mostly just something for people speculate on. Something people buy, sit on, and then hopefully sell with a profit.

Bitcoin was supposed to be a decentralized money alternative, but the amount of people actually, legitimately, buying things with crypto are highly negligible. And honestly even if it did serve it’s actual purpose, the cumulative power consumption would still be a point of debate.

That it’s controlled by a few is only a problem if you use it… my issue with it starts before that.

My biggest gripe with AI is the same problem I have with anything crypto: It’s out of control power consumption relative to the problem it solves or purpose it serves. And by extension the fact nobody with any kind of real political power is addressing this.

Here we are using recycled bags, banning straws, putting explosive refrigerant in fridges and using led lights in everything, all in the name of the environment, while at the same time in some datacenter they are burning kwh’s by the bucket loads generating pictures of cats in space suits.

People are lazy. Getting people to sign up for a forum has a much MUCH higher inertia than just clicking join in a group on a platform they already have an account for.

People will subsequently evidently just “deal” with it’s inadequacies.

Reddit has the same advantage, you have one account and subsequently have access to a billion and then some communities. Ditto for Discord versus self hosted solutions like Teamspeak.

Lemmy kind of adresses all of this, but actual forum software I think is still mostly the same as it was in the early to mid 2000’s when I used it. It’s demise is a shame but not a surprise.

Well, yeah. That’s life as an admin under the best circumstances.

I don’t disagree, but I don’t see the reason in tempting/inviting work to spawn. Especially in the cases where windows itself is optional.

I also think it’s interesting you’re not convinced it’s a reasonable risk. I’ve had updates break things on clients under my control on several occasions, particularly post Windows 7 with the bigger feature releases.

It’s definitely a “when”, and not an “if” to me.

It’s also worth pointing out Microsoft has already actively been working against allowing you to bypass the requirements. It’s very clear to me they want to go towards some kind of hardware lifecycle management and I would definately not put it past them they deliberately make windows stop working on unsupported platforms at some point.

Also IT guy. Hot take indeed. I’ve done this but won’t support this. I will almost guarantee some update will break shit at the most inconvenient time humanly possible and the people you’ve done this for will need your help, all at the same time.

I’m using this opportunity to expand Linux market share.

Most people only use a browser these days. People that ask me about Windows 10 eol get pushed towards Linux. There is really no need to spend money to replace a machine mainly used to browse the web.

Only if they need stuff that won’t work on Linux or they really really want Windows to use Chrome or Firefox on for some reason I’ll recommend complying with Microsoft’s hubris.

But not before suggesting Apple sells pretty and user friendly computers as well. Because I really want this to hurt Windows’s market share and by golly I’ll do everything in my power to help.

I can’t choose an absolute favorite, that’s like choosing a favorite child.

It’s a toss up between the Mass Effect Trilogy, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher (in partiuclarly 3) and (most) of Fallout games (but in particular 1 and 2).

If you were to put a gun to my head I’d probably pick either Mass Effect Trilogy or Cyberpunk 2077, probably based on what game i’ve played for the millionth time most recently.

That was before Steam Deck and Proton, though, so I should probably test it all again.

The steam deck is exactly what convinced me to give Linux a whirl on my main gaming PC again and honestly I regret not making this move way earlier.

Everything that runs on a steam deck should run on any Linux PC. This list of games recently crossed 18k.

So far I have zero regrets, performance of the games i’ve played to date is on par with what I was seeing on Windows, even with Nvidia’s notoriously bad reputation for Linux support.

Proton is an absolutely bonkers development and Valve’s doing legendary work with it’s push for Linux.

I do have to end this by saying I don’t do online gaming so I have not had to deal with anti-cheat bullshit that doesn’t want to work on anything that’s not Windows and 99.9 percent of my games exist in either Steam or GOG. (the latter of which is supported on Linux with the Heroic launcher)

The way it’s looking now, I consider the chance of me migrating back to Windows on my private machines near zero. Games were the only thing keeping me on windows privately.

Government needs to fully migrate to open source. Instead of re-inventing the wheel contribute to existing projects.

I remember elon saying something along the lines of his camera system being just as good and they thusly don’t need to employ things like LIDAR.

The best option here is to just tank Chrome’s market share instead of making something that’s obviously not ideal, work.

“Oh you built this house with one of our hammers, so it’s ours actually.”

The problem with companies like for example Adobe over let’s say DeWalt is that they actually have a pretty strong grip on it’s target market.

If there was only one company that made tools to build houses i’m sure eventually they’d try to pull the same crap if they could get away with it.

You can totally see the same kind of walled garden thinking in things like battery platforms for powertools. Most people buy into a brand and never go elsewhere but there’s litterally zero technical purpose behind this other then toolmakers going through lengths making their batteries only fit their tools.

I knew this was his endgame. Prepare to go full “Minority Report”.