I can tell you why. Look back a few years ago when their pricing literally doubled almost overnight. Go Google their cost increases over the years. Also, how they took existing features in a tier and shifted them to a more expensive tier, leaving people in the cold. It's why I scrambled to move from GitLab to Gitea a couple years back.

The modern lesson for us all is this: once VC money or going public is assured, just start the clock. Because you'll be parting with more of your money "real soon now".

That seems out of hand.
I've had Teams running all day, and have used it multiple times for conferences and chat. Currently sitting at 138MB of RAM.
I opened edge and navigated to MSN. Let it sit there for a while. Currently it's at 520MB of RAM.
My Chrome browser with 10 tabs open, some of them running "apps" in the background is at 2GB of RAM.

I think you might have other issues.

I wish we could leave behind this absurdist concept that everyone has to be desperate and miserable in order to produce good / fast work.
If that were the case, then every CEO should get 5 hours of sleep a night and report daily to the rack for a short bout of torture. I mean, how else can they possibly make the business thrive?
Unions and capitalism can survive and thrive together... people need to quit proferring ths binary choice.

Thank you for this thoughtful, informative reply.

I've been using this for years to "tame" the amount of nonsense that Windows spews forth and/or collects about me.
I'm sure there are other more invasive or useful apps which do similar things, but I've had consistently good results.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oo-software.com%2Fen%2Fshutup10%2F

Will they actually *do* something this time, or just participate in "Public Lamentation Theater" like a couple of weeks ago?

Hello there - any options you might suggest for Spanish study for an English speaker?

Microsoft Teams.

(ducks)

The previous owner gave his (quite lengthy) side of the story here. Consider it an interesting read. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FIAmA%2F...

I just noticed it last night, thought something was wrong with my remote... finally saw I had to navigate to a small "close" button on the right side. Absolutely not. If this continues, that thing will go straight to the trash. It's already painful enough to find ways to watch a damn show, and now what should be straight forward has been enshittified.

GE appliances are made by the Chinese company Haier. Unfortunately, unless you purchase very top end GE Profile appliances now, their reliability is... not great. Consumer Reports and others have them solidly in the middle of the entire pack... Bosch and Kenmore below that, Samsung even worse. I hear that from other repair people I've talked to over time too. It's so hard to keep up with attempting to avoid crap these days. And my LG refrigerator "linear drive" compressor would like to join the chat....

So, you actually believe Apple is going to hire 20,000 U.S., in country developers? Would you like to make a wager?

Another CEO of company promoting AI vastly misunderstands the reasons humans exist, and thinks his vision of the future isn't somehow shockingly dystopian.

"Computer, I'd like to start a band called RUSH. I want the singer to sound like a chipmunk on Amphetamines. I want the drum parts to be unique and amazing all by themselves. Have the lyrics not be about the same tripe on the radio all the time, but instead meaningful in a way that makes you really think about things from a philosophical and human standpoint. Oh yea, make the bass god-like and the guitar unique across all other bands. Have that all come together for me in a neat package ready to sell. And, I'd like to take full credit for being a musical 'genius' without having ever put in the time to create or polish anything of actual value."

It's like kids getting a good run on Guitar Hero and thinking they're actually as good as Joe Satriani.

That makes... some sense I guess. But do they have to run such simulations continuously? Were computers 15 years ago running simulations around the clock, and for what? I just find it overly strange.

Does anyone know why it takes the world's strongest supercomputer to, "maintain and secure our nuclear stockpile"? Or, is it rather a statement about continuing to run increasingly more detailed nuclear trials?