It's always the next get-rich-quick scheme. Before yesterday it was tulips, yesterday it was High-Frequency Trading, today it's “Artificial Intelligence” (in quotes because it has nothing to do with real intelligence, never has and probably never will).

And I always see people falling for these schemes again and again, with ever greater consequences, because greed always trumps logic and reason.

That's basically what he wrote. Linux now has a chance to become a more widely used desktop simply because Microsoft is apparently determined to sabotage Windows, but if the Linux community doesn't get their shit together, they'll keep publishing their own distros by complete inability to agree on anything (over 600 different versions this far and counting) where none of which are actually good enough to be used as a general purpose desktop operating system (instead of necessary but niche uses).

At this point in the story I think it's more likely that Android will take over Windows or maybe SteamOS (which is Linux, but actually usable and more or less stable)

More or less. Regardless of its flaws, 4Chan is one of the few places where you can still have an opinion that goes against the “bubble”. For example, if you try to post an opinion on Reddit that goes against the group's opinion you'll be banned very fast. And I'm not talking here about opinions that would actually be crimes or universally wrong, I'm talking about trivial things where the reason you get banned is merely to be different from what the group thinks, imagine things like “I like green” and the group likes blue.

It's by design. The best schools are reserved for the children of the very rich and these very rich people don't care about the damage this might cause to society as a whole.

They don't care in the slightest about the problems that such an attitude can cause, they care exclusively about the feeling of power over others that such an attitude causes for them.

So some random piece of shit at Microsoft thinks it would be a “breakthrough” for me to put my important documents in their “cloud” and rely on crappy “programs” (they're just crappy web pages) made in javascript for all my important work.

And the worst part is that there's always a complete imbecile within the corporations who swallows this shit hook, line and sinker and still manages to convince the bosses that it has to be applied by force to all other employees.

I deal with large, old systems for a living. They're intending to redo a system that even I would think carefully before dealing with, using “developers” who only know how to deal (poorly) with javascript and have no idea how to structure data correctly, and for the icing on the cake thinking that all they have to do is insert AI to cover the gaps?

Goodbye USA social security system.

Putting the Windows 11 shitty code into a portable? And compatible with Xbox which basically uses x86 desktop processors? And running that shitty html code trying to pretend to be desktop applications?

You merely want control, power over your users. Because if that weren't the case, you would know that nowadays it is much more important for the user to simply know what he is doing (or learn how to) than to trust some "miracle antivirus" or to put so many prohibitions that the user can literally only look at the computer and not be able to do any work on that computer.

This is Java's main advantage and not many people realize it: Stability. When I'm making a system that will be used for literally decades, I can't keep using languages that break things once a year.

I noticed the same thing here. Right now the site is completely broken and I was only able to post this message by completely blocking scripts from the slashdot.org server.

Short version, because in the long run I found out that PHP is a shitty language when you want or need to make a good system. You can make it work? Yes, you can. But badly. Or not as good as it could be.

It's especially worse for me because I need to make systems that will be in use for decades, so the language I'm based on can't keep throwing away compatibility every year, and even worse if I use frameworks that then throw away this compatibility once a month instead of once a year. I finally managed to get rid of shitty Laravel, which I tried to keep working but after a lot of experimentation I concluded that I would have to rewrite the system because of a version change and seeing the history of the framework it was guaranteed that the following year I would probably have to rewrite the system again.

I'm being serious. And if you can't ditch PHP then at least use a development platform that is stable and doesn't keep changing once a year and/or being discarded in favor of the "next shiny thing". In other words, none of this Laravel crap.

The problem is that officially only corporations can use the LTSC version

The problem is that some versions are obviously downgrades compared to previous ones. Here I completely skipped Windows Me and Windows 8, and only left Windows 7 because of the forced upgrade to Windows 10. And now Windows 11 is being such a clusterfuck that if a hypothetical Windows 12 doesn't get better I'll really be forced to migrate to Linux this time.