Yep. Although some Nazis saw Fraktur as an expression of German "kultur", Hitler always personally disliked it. What really pushed it over the edge was the conclusion that it made communicating to populations in the occupied territories more difficult.

...they gotta use Papyrus! "So classy."

Xbox has always been weak, and likely has never been profitable, and hardware has never really been Microsoft's thing. Xbox getting only 10% market share, however, is new territory. This may be leading to more pain than Microsoft is willing to take. Back in the Genesis days, would you have thought that Sega would ever walk away from consoles?

People who can't do simple arithmetic are so fun.

If you haven't worked it out, doubling your net worth every day for a month means you end the month with one billion times what you started with.

Multiply that by two million...

The US armed forces are 2.8 million strong. The DoD employs about million more civilians on top of that. That's not even counting contractors that the DoD may be buying licenses for. 2 million Microsoft 365 licenses doesn't seem that outlandish.

"I'd argue that Cobol and Fortran have carved out a niche where they *are* the best in their class."

Seriously, and I say this as someone who knows both Cobol and Fortran, what niches are Cobol or Fortran best at other than "applications that are already written in Cobol or Fortran"?

They moved fast and broke things.

And now I'm picturing Harrison Ford going around asking people what time it is.

In a constantly changing world where change is happening ever faster, ChatGPT is essentially a static model.

While games are, apparently, not art and their authorship does not matter. Do I have that right?

They're influencers. "Conflict of interest" isn't an ethical problem, it's a lifestyle.

From what I've heard from reliable sources, though, Chinese EVs are apparently are good quality for a cheap price. I don't have personal experience of this, though.

"We need a slimmer OS that defaults to "no extra crap loading or running behind our backs tracking us and sending our info to Microsoft"."

I don't even need to say it, do I?

Arduino was fun while it lasted.

If you need a corner to weep in, just follow the VMWare customers. They know where it is.

You didn't use the main deflector dish *or* reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to dock some points on your technobabble score.