Kind of an apples to oranges comparison. There are a lot of fundemental differences between Denmark and US which would impact the outcome.

Instead, let's take a look at government funded healthcare right in the US: The VA. A quick look should tell us everything we need to know about expanding such a system to cover all citizens.

Oh...oh no. No no no no.

Mind you, the VA is aimed at our soldiers. The people we depend on to defend our borders. Look what we do to those we should be celebrating! Now imagine what would happen to your average, ordinary every day joe. Or worse; imagine it gets politized by "the other side" ( which ever side you don't like ); can you imagine the republicans in charge of universal healthcare and you need an abortion? Or the democrats in charge and a heart attack victim comes in with a "Donor" dot on his DL and a MAGA hat on?

Thank you, no. There are far too many horrible, yet likely outcomes to this idea.

Hey MS, I have an idea: How about you FINISH BAKING YOUR OS. It's a radical idea, but it just might work.

Streamline your control panels, make sure they all *work*. That'd go a long way in making your OS better.

Then you could take a quick look at usability; it shouldn't take me a dozen clicks to do something I routinely need access to. Oh, and stop fucking with the start menu if your so hot on people using it.

I could see voice input being a niche ( for those with accessibility issues ), but it's not going to replace the mouse and keyboard, anymore than touchscreen did.

...but charging speed improvements would minimize the importance of this metric. I don't care if I can only go 200miles on a single charge if it takes less than 3-5 minutes to recharge it.

Right, I was ignorant of something...so I asked a question. That's generally how things work.

whataboutism is an argumentative fallacy. Doesn't apply here.

So...yes, you were just being a cunt.

It's called a legitimate question; I didn't have the data you had, so I asked the question I was curious about.

Don't be a cunt.

Given the unit will undoubtedly spend most of the time "off", what about power consumption when the unit is turned off? We know most appliances today aren't really "off" when they're "off", so why not look at that?

They obviously had IT in some capacity; whoever they had set it up did them dirty if they didn't emphasize the importance of backups.

I know; I've been "that guy" who helped out a small company get on their IT feet, as it were. I always stressed the importance of backup routines, of how to take care of their data. I gave them scenarios where, if I get called for X, I won't be able to help them if they weren't on top of their backup routine. I always asked them what that'd mean to them and their business. I made a point of driving this home.

Of course I've received those calls, and I've asked the question, "What do the backups look like?". If they're my customers their backups are usually up to date and ready to go. An evening's worth of work, maybe a weekend, and they're back in business.

If they aren't, then my price just went up. WAAAY up.

It was unthinkable to run a company without reliable backups 25+ years ago. Today I'd call it criminal negligent. How many more stories does the CIO need before s/he make this a priority?

Just incredible how this keeps happening.

Given that China doesn't allow everyday citizens unlimited access to the internet, we can assume the only ones allowed out are bad actors like badbot, so blocking China entirely would be a net benefit for the entire world. We'd have to get the VPN operators to cooperate, which is near impossible since they'd sell their own mothers for a quick buck.

As a young programmer I watched senior coders get laid off and realized several things:

1) The more you make, the more attractive the target for cost reduction
2) You could have extensive knowledge about coding and a specific codebase, it won't save you.

Since then I spend my free time finding skills that my current environment is lacking, then develop those skills and put them to use. In the intervening 20+ years in the field, I have never once been laid off despite making what I make ( admittedly violating rule #1 ). Even were I laid off, I have several companies that would jump at the chance to have me back ( given my skillset and work ethic ).

I think working for larger corporations stifles people; they let themselves get comfortable in the pigeon hole they've been assigned, so they are ill prepared when lean times come.

Leave it to a CEO to frame this as a marketing problem instead of a skills and competency problem.

I've been poking proxmox for the past couple years, using it at home and in smaller environments and such...really impressive. I know there are some sophisticated functions that esxi can do that proxmox can't, but if you aren't one of those edge cases then you should be fine.

I really appreciate it's clustering and HA capabilities that you get out of the box, and you can't beat the cost ( even if you buy support ). It's really a game changer for the smaller to medium environments, particularly those that were on vmware stuff before.

Proxmox is my VM host of choice, but there are plenty of others with different strengths and weaknesses.

Anyone who hasn't at least planned their escape from VMware deserves whatever happens to them.

Of course you design your policies and procedures to protect against rogue employees, particularly in IT and especially with admins who have greater levels of access.

Suggesting otherwise exposes your own ignorance as to how IT security operates in companies ( or how it's supposed to ). Everywhere I've worked, suspended employees were treated as terminated as far as their access to resources were concerned ( up to and including email ). Most places would ask you to tell them if you were traveling out of country, and would suspend your credentials as a precaution if you were ( predominantly in IT and finance, oftentimes HR as well ).

It's a question of minimizing risk. Admins have enough access to shutdown operations for extended periods of time, so of course you would disable their access when the situation warrants it. You wouldn't trust them not to interfere with millions of dollars of productivity/day, and as an admin I wouldn't want them to.

But hey! I'm not sure why I'm wasting so much time trying to educate you on this; the less you know and the more you spread your "knowledge", the more work I get.