Except that many large enterprises have seen this movie before with Broadcom buying things like CA. They already know the product development vanishes and support gets thin while prices quickly escalate. Then shelfware is bundled into an "all or nothing" deal so they'll keep bleeding you until you get every scrap of their shit out of your stack with them hoping you take the bait.

We've almost got every last scrap of their products peeled out of our business. Never again.

That's really the only use I have for my one echo device. I consume their prime music content and pipe it out to a small amplifier for stereo speakers and a small subwoofer in my garage so I have music to listen to when I'm being a gear head. I guess if I HAD to, I could use a raspberry pi or something like that to do the same, but this just works and I'm lazy.

What a load of crap. The black rat is still endemic around the world and if you think there was good sanitation in georgian or early victorian times then you need a history lesson particularly in cholera.

It's still more than fast enough except for games (and I've got a ps5 for those) plus apple thankfully havent bothered to backport their models to x86, probably due to no neural shit in the cpu.

The dependence on "AI" is the danger because it's incredibly stupid, and officers are not very smart. They need solid foundational training to favors innocence. They do get a lot of that, and it's almost always bad laws that lead to these situations (including the entire war on drugs).

Flock is a big problem here because it is clearly violating the 4th amendment. You can say "they're in public" and sure .. that's true. But when you start doing deep analytics automatically on everyone in "public," it's more than just a CCTV to keep a record or someone taking a photo of people walking through the park. It becomes indexed and searchable: surveillance. That's illegal search, which in this case lead to illegal search and seizure.

Gun sale records are not allowed to be indexed and searchable by name (they can be by a gun store. But if they go out of business and send an Excel spreadsheet in to the ATF, it has to be printed out and stored on paper or microfilm).

I hope this woman gets at least a million after taxes and legal fees for this fuck up. I hope the woman from TN gets a few million for her six months of detention in North Dakota. TN should have never remanded her. Both states failed to protect the people in that case. She lost her fucking house!

We're all the descendents of the people who for whatever genetic reason survived the plagues in the past and thats why plaque hasn't reoccured as an epidemic since the middle ages. Even before antibiotics were created it was no longer AS dangerous to us as a species. though thats not to say its still not dangerous, just not to epidemic level.

That's not the important metric. It only tells you the percentage of users, not the percentage of people who play games on Linux (or buy games).

For instance, I have a Steam account. I've got the client installed on my phone and Mac. I don't really play games anymore. I'm sure this counts towards something.

What's meaningful to those who might target a platform is what percentage of those people buy games. It might just be that Linux users are the only ones who play dungeon crawlers, for instance - which could be meaningful information.

Comparing the Starship prototype to a battle tested workhorse that's been in production a lot longer isn't particularly useful. When Starship proves that it is a safe platform for humans, great. Until then, why not use it to launch cargo/satellites if the economics are sound?

LOL :) Newsflash - sex isn't knocking one out while watching pornhub, it needs 2 people. Maybe one day you'll find out.

Yes, the brain is excluded. Being female is defined anatomically by the sexual organs, its not how you feel. Get a fucking clue you deluded imbecile.

The cry of the aging incel who cant get laid.

Not a woman, a man pretending to be a woman. Identifying as female has as much biological reality as identifying as a dog and pretending it does is just a childish agic thinking delusion of which most sane adults want no part.

Covid is an odd virus. It was lethal to a fraction of a percent of the population, nasty to a couple of percent and no worse than a cold or even symptomless to everyone else. I dont personaly know anyone affected by it so if I lived in some idiocy bubble like these people I could well assume it was a hoax.

The value I see in Xbox:

1) Their vendor agreements re: distribution and sales for games.
2) The OEM hardware channel profits/relationship.

Frankly? I see 2 options.

AMD is doing great. They're the only big players in the market I can see that understands how to grow a business instead of simply loot it. Xbox would potentially give AMD a big market leg up in their other product lines (namely, low power CPU/GPU). Xbox itself has always heavily depended on AMD hardware integration to run well. AMD excels at buying things and making them feed their entire pipeline - and that model works extremely well for Xbox.

It would just depend on what kind of deal they could get on the company, and Windows use (if they'd even want it).

Failing that... maybe Valve.They're already trying to turn SteamDeck and SteamOS into something that runs and works on everything. They've got obscene amounts of money. Xbox could be a great already-installed base as well as give them additional studios to make games for their platform. Though this seems less likely than AMD.

Considering how easy it is to port or support a game on Linux or Mac these days with WINE (with vibe coding), even Windows support seems a diminished quality for gaming.

I've personally taken 2 old games and made them playable on MacOS just vibing them. One was Homeworld, and the other was an indie game (the name of which I can't remember, but it was in the theme of Thief).

There was a time not that distant from now when Microsoft was getting a significant percentage of their revenue from gaming. This seems like they're slaughtering their sacred cow.

I can't see much upside for Microsoft in the future. They're basically moving cloud-only for most products, except for Windows itself. I understand how that works on the books, but I don't see how well that works for their customers. They're shrinking their market substantially to cater to larger and larger enterprises.

(THeir GPU investments have largely been a loss leader for their other cloud services... "data has inertia" or however that saying goes: storage, compute, and network activity on their cloud which wouldn't have gotten used if not for people moving data to the cloud to process it, subsidizes the discounted GPUs. All the cloud providers are doing this.)