is a hallmark of fascism.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

they sell themselves.

Either that or they're so unavoidable that people pretty much have to buy them, so crappy AI sales agents are quite enough.

Why can't YouTube search utilize AI? When will it possible to search for videos by describing the content instead of by the video description text?

We're bring manufacturing and farm jobs back to Americans. Who needs a six figure sales job at Microsoft when you could have a great job picking lettuce or applying glue on shoe soles a thousand times a day.

Uh, chill out. It's not harmful. What is your concern? It's a tiny amount of silicon and some metal. Less resource consumed than making a few beads of glass. Or have you lost your marbles?

Cutting off people's internet is a good way to accelerate regime flip.

When everybody's perception of reality is different, nobody can agree on any hard fact and society unravels.

After the first few reviewers find themselves in El Salvador.

Is this legal?

This reminds me of when the Air Force had a $35 billion dollar KC-X Tanker replacement contract up for grabs but US Aerospace-Antonov delivered their bid 5 minutes late because the delivery guy couldn't find the office. (They later sued the Air Force (and lost) saying the courier received bum directions from someone at the gate.)

Ubuntu LTS has "Pro" offerings that take it out that far, and Windows isn't free, so it seems fair to include their paid expanded support.

The reason I wouldn't use the RHEL/Alma/Rocky is that I am impatient for new features, but if I was a "I don't care I want to run this for 10 years", then I'd run it on my desktop. I think this is mostly the reason enthusiasts dislike them, which is an opposed concern to "not supported long enough". RHEL10 recently released based on Fedora 40, where desktop enthusiasts are running a Fedora edition a whole year newer.

For Fedora, the "click here to upgrade" is pretty similar to the Windows "click here to upgrade" experience. Unless you get adventurous in ways you couldn't have gotten adventurous in Windows.

As a Fedora user, sometimes you have a period of software instability when they push something not yet baked. It may be for a reason, but that reason may be nearly impossible to discern.

It's not news because the community is broadly used to it and they generally accept it as the cost of getting stuff faster.

Fedora is not as bad as it used to be, but they are really aggressive and inflict oddities from time to time.

If I were really bothered, I could go run something extra conservative, like Debian Stable or Alma Linux, but I prefer the fast-ish delivery of Fedora even accepting that sometimes things can go a bit south.

What LTS editions only do 5 years? I just checked SUSE, Ubuntu, and RHEL.

RedHat is up to 13 years, with the the first 5 years being "full" including releasing for brand new hardware and backporting as needed with another 5 years of "you can keep running it on the hardware you have, but we aren't promising support for new hardware" and another available 3 years of paid extension. Note that Windows 10 pretty much went "maintenance" with the release of Windows 11, so the RHEL lifecycle largely imitates the Windows lifecycle.

SUSE is a bit more generous on paper, but roughly this is about all the LTSes.

However day to day users are not interested and go for the options that favor rapid delivery of new capability, so people don't talk about them as much.

Well then they should be in a room in a mental institution. How Is it âoeregimentedâ the only rule anyone is subject to is no drugs and no violence.