The jump jets aren't under manual control from what we could see. So that risk might be much lower than you think.

Jealous much? Tesla is doing quite ok, especially compared to some other car companies who are closing down factories and firing workers by the thousands.

Is it spectacle? Yeah, it is. It also is a one-of-a-kind car. It's clearly a supercar aimed at the filthy rich who buy stuff they don't really need because it's cool or because they want to brag about it. Fine as well. Last I checked, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Bugatti weren't exactly close to bancruptcy.

Do you know what all of those also have? Models that didn't sell as well as they had hoped. It's part of the business.

What I'm slightly more worried about is the whole humanoid robot stuff. Can't see a use case for that and it's been a money sink for decades. No idea why Tesla got involved with that.

Fvwm really has everything I need. Also not moving to Weyland.

It is mostly not a question of infrastructure.

While I am not convinced this will happen, it is a definite possibility. I do agree that US tech is in a death spiral.

They will probably be getting a suspended sentence for insulting behavior. Still matters. People in the EU are nowhere near as desensitized as in the US.

Exactly. This irrational trust in Microsoft "because they are powerful" is completely deranged.

What a stupid and disconnected comment. You are deeply stuck in the past and it is not a good look.

Europe has that. If is not cost-effective at the moment, but moving closer to it costs very little in comparison to the gains. Also remember that Europe has, for example, ASML and Zeiss and that Europe educates a lot of good engineers. Replacing ASML and Zeiss alone would take a moon-landing type project at this time. And as soon as you leave the MS crap behind, you are not tied to specific hardware anyways.

I know a few people in the government space that do IT security exactly for this. Yes, FOSS gets reviewed as well before it goes into critical places. That review is just a lot easier.

Exactly. They used the nuclear option because the convicted felon wanted it. And now everybody is very intent on making sure they cannot use it again. On the plus side, this will create a lot of local business and long-term will pay of economically as well because suddenly, with FOSS, its is not closed systems anymore. Reminds me a bit of the right-to-repair discussion.

The trigger was blocking several accounts at the international court of law. I think Microsoft may regret that dearly now. But all it really did was make the problem strikingly obvious.

Yep. And since the nice LLM has written code no human can do anything with anymore, you have to pay for tokens, tokens and more tokens. Or throw the whole steaming pile away. The latter may kill you (a bit earlier) though.

Despite ample warnings, people only find that out when the vendor support ends and they expensive hardware becomes useless.

If that happens, nothing of value will be lost, but we may all benefit.