If a few among those who get real work done must go for that purpose then so be it - their replacements can be hired later anyway.

LinkedIn was a piece of shit already before MS took it over. That's why it fits so well in MS, who have merely fine-tuned LinkedIn's enshittification ongoing process.

Another incremental step forward that moves us one more centimeter along in the long path ahead. Not the breakthrough that will make the manufacture of practical quantum computers a thing, as the popular press will no doubt breathlessly trumpet about,

However, without objective, solid supporting evidence this is just innuendo. I fervently hope they can produce such evidence.

Just another day in Dumbfuckistan.

Quote: For example, Kattukaran says Gemini for Home can accurately respond to requests like "turn off the lights everywhere except my bedroom," "play that song from this year's summer blockbuster about race cars," or "set a timer for perfectly blanched broccoli." It will also create lists, calendar entries, and reminders more easily than before, he says. Unquote.

I.e. it does well things that, for the most part, you can do yourself just as easily, and maybe even with less hassle. Unclear whether it can do the very helpful and useful things that a human assistant easily could.

Can you imagine if such a lack of reliability affected computers in general in the same way?

When you run Windows Microsoft will be telling you what you can do with your computer and when. You are not the owner of your computer and the data therein - Microsoft is.

And a piece of shit too. It is one of the most ridiculous entities that the software development world has come up with - and that's saying something.

They are, by and large, for-profit companies that make open source contributions because those in charge of said companies think that doing so helps them increase their profits. That's all. You are not supposed to remember such companies, much less be grateful to them; you use their wares if that is to your advantage and you ditch them once that is not the case any more.

It has been known for quite some time that too many options is anything but a good thing. The penchant of so many to come up with their own Linux distribution is ridiculous and pathetic.

It is beyond me why so many out there seem to be so keen on having their own Linux distribution, which for the most part is likely to be little more than one of the three or four major ones with some eye candy.

Indeed. Maybe one day the industry will pull its head out of that place where the sun never shines and realize that ditching their ridiculous artificial scarcity creation and making the material immediately, conveniently and easily available all the time at reasonable prices would largely do away with piracy. I will not hold my breath in the meantime though.

I ditched Plex for Jellyfin and couldn't be happier. The Plex Pass is not worth anything to me, and when the Plex executive^H^H^H^H^Hmorons decided that I would have to pay for streaming outside my LAN they crossed the final red line and pushed me to look for alternatives.

If the former, the widely-used Mercator projection already shows Africa's true size fairly well; it is just for areas at high latitudes (north or south) the sizes become disproportionally large.