Apple, tesla, and Google suspiciously at the bottom three there

Why do you think it is that he’s limiting to ginger wagging?

What do you think would happen if he stops giving them weapons and a blanket kill whatever you want okay?

Most tech sucks because it’s closed source. Closed source products are typically made with “the least amount of work done to sell for the most amount of buck”. So standards are only sloppily and partially implemented (or sometimes purposefully badly or differently to ensure incompatibility), and bugs after sale won’t be fixed because why would they? They already have your money. Middle managers will work hard to ensure more money goes to advertising and marketing than to actual development.

Then there is the embrace, expand, extinguish mentality (hello Microsoft!) to force customers to stay around their shitty products. Microsoft 365 and teams shit are perfect examples. The company I work at currently uses it and it’s beyond garbage shit that is expensive as hell. Not an hour goes by without me being confronted by bad design, bugs, bugs, bugs, so many bugs… And it’s all designed to ensure you stay in their little walled garden. I can’t change this today, but I’m planning to be rid of it in about a year from now, fingers crossed.

In my experience, open source software is fucking awesome because people built it to actually build something awesome. Standards are implemented to the letter, bugs are fixed, and it all works and looks awesome.

Everybody here things it so funny to talk about how we’ll all die ans it’s all horrible but really?

Lifw is pretty good. Yeah, we’re off worse off today than, say, 30 years ago, but compared to the 4 billion or so years before that? We’re doing awesome.

We have direct communicationto anyone in the world in the palm of our hands. Even the poor got better and nicer food today than kings had 300 years ago. Life expectancy even over the past 100 years has gone up dramatically…

This “we’re living in the worst times ever!” Is kind of like climate change deniers cherry picking a tiny sliver of a huge graph and say “see? Temperatures.are going down!” It’s nonsense. Yeah, things got a bit worse.over the past decade, they’ll get better again soon and we’re still way better off than, say, 1980

Bonus bonus points: get a free new one!

Musk is and always has been an incompetent yet lucky scammer.

Twitter will be bankrupt within two years.

Am I missing something? Isn’t “emails” correct?

Well… Communism is directly responsible for multiple famines that killed into the hundreds of millions. Then there are the inevitable purges that have taken millions of lives and hosts of terrors as well.

You’re free to dispute history if you need to, and claim that theoretically communism is nice, but in practice, history tells us that living under communism reaaaalllyy sucks.

No, AMD actually did the 64 bit extensions, as a lot more.

AMD has been working hard in innovating whereas Intel has been working hard riding it’s oen reputation into the ground whilst generating great short term profits for shareholders.

So basically unit 731 stuff

Not pure CSS?

It’s been a while, but I remember Plex actually pulling a lot of this crap that caused jellyfin

What’s the difference between a soft fork and a hard fork, besides being careful with your teeth?

Awesome!

When China rightfully has to call you out on your bullshit, then you know you’re on the wrong side

If you’re in a reasonably sized company, do NOT go to HR. She might get fired for her behavior, you WILL be fired for starting a fire. HR does NOT like fires.

I had the good fortune to battle the CTO of a multinational who couldn’t keep his hands off the employees. Everyone was too afraid to speak up, I was not. The CTO was fired. One day after he fired me with the full support of HR, because “you are incompetent in your job”. Mind you this was after multiple stellar reviews of my local superiors

Switch to Linux, get it over with, get rid of the Microsoft bullshit

So this has shit to do with Linux, it’s Oracle doing Oracle. Great, you pay through the nose, get abused and for that you get shitty software that allows hackers to take over your machine. All sorts of awesome

Nah, they’ll use something else instead.

Wouldn’t go that far, but it’s an annoyance for sure.