You ever try doing that with Windows?

In any case they're wrong. Converting Linux between being a server and being a desktop is trivial.

Debian often has unfortunately old packages. I've resorted to removing a lot of software and building it myself. And since Debs can be a bit of a hassle I usually just install to local or opt.

Japan is not even kind to repatriated Japanese, many of whom have left again because of the discrimination they experienced. They're discriminated against abroad for being Japanese, then come home and get discriminated against again for not being sufficiently racially pure.

I've had many Windows upgrades fail. Some of them resulted in an unusable system, others reverted themselves and only wasted hours of my time. And for that matter, just running Windows Update without an upgrade to a new Windows version very frequently breaks Windows Update so that it will not work, and on a few occasions has resulted in an unbootable Windows system. In fact even my work machine has rendered itself unbootable with a Windows Update, and I work remotely... I had to go in to the office to have them address the issue, that was a fun waste of time.

No, Linux is not perfect, but you don't get to declare that Linux is not ready for the desktop when it has problems that Windows also has.

They have lots of problems. We know because we see their confused posts on Microsoft forums, which are usually followed up with "solutions" which don't work.

Our IT department forces a windows reboot once a week even if Microsoft doesn't, because they have found that this prevents a lot of problems.

I don't have to do this with my Linux systems. This is not to say that they are trouble-free, only that they don't need to be rebooted weekly to work as well as they are going to.

"a statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable."

What prevents you from accessing a dictionary? It's easy and free.

Thanks for agreeing with me, and also being a cautionary tale of illiteracy.

Thus solving the problem forever!

FOREVER!

It's a very good question. It looks like it was mainly failures to generate a result within a predetermined time. Some of the failures were due to cryostat hardware failures (a fridge went out during a NIST campus closure); some due to fiber + interferometer polarization drifts; and so on. It also appears that [perhaps?] a few of the misses are due to latencies in the timetaggers to record a common timebase. I can't quite tell from the arXived version of the paper: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2411.052...

All in all, it's a marvelously good overview of the impressive experiment!

It depends on what they've purchased. Microsoft's basic licenses haven't gone up by that much in five years. The top tier E5 license was $57 per month in 2020, and today it's $54.75 (albeit without Teams, which costs $8 per month with a phone number attached). European prices are probably a bit different, but the price changes in percentages won't be notably different. Even add-ons like Entra Suite or Intune Suite won't add 72%. It's more likely that they have Azure VMs or other services, and that's where the majority of the cost increase came from. If they're not planning on bringing that on-prem, they'll see some savings, but it may not be all that much.

Capitalism does dumb shit all day. Virtually nothing about it is sustainable. Almost everything it does is abusive to someone. When you are complaining about this, which is driven purely by capitalism, you're complaining about capitalism whether you know it or not.

Like water running in pipes, not like a stream.

I don't know if they make a different noise in the UK, but I sure hope they do, because this one gives me a headache.

They are elected TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.

Ok...to do what is RIGHT....with definition of "right" being the will of the voter.

The politicians are not there to be the arbiters of right or wrong...they are there to represent the will of the people, whatever that may be.

We're a free country over there and are not going to force a lifestyle on everyone here.

We do have some dense urban areas and hey, great for them that want to live like that.

A very significant portion of us here in the US do NOT want that type life....thankfully it is a BIG country with very diverse climates, habits, cultures where anyone can find where they want to live, how they want to live and how they want their state and local governments run.

One size does not fit all.....and trying to make it so will not fit well with the US.