I was on Linux for over a year on my personal machine at home. I could work with kubuntu. My wife could use kubuntu. All nice and well... but the amount of "Oh what the hell is wrong with you NOW?" was just... GAH!

Granted, after four years on MacOS I hate that pile of garbage even more. And Win11 is worse for me than Linux, luckily i only have to use it on the work pc and because it sucks so hard, I get away with "Sorry, I missed that important call because this POS... you know how it is...".

Did I mention I landed on kubuntu after trying and dismissing four other distros for various bugs or failures to even install? kubuntu was just the least bad...

The fanboys will mod that troll... instead of hopping on the bandwaggon and making Linux useable. For them the problem is always everybody else, never their love-child....

Whoever finds this questionable will be labelled a conspiracy nut, Boeing will pay some slap on the wrist fines and no C-level at that company will be worse for wear.

Let's say half a billion people worldwide use windows regularly... With all the changes MS keeps pushing, let's say each one of them loses an hour a month in productivity on average to relearn the new and "better" UI or the shifted settings screens. Or reactivating or redeactivating something Microsoft toggled in the latest update.

500 millio nhours every month. If my math isn't completely off its rocker, that's 800+ human lives (average lifespan of 70 years) wasted every month.

Now this is not quite murder, I get it. And if it was due to human errors like bugs, I wouldn't be making a stink about it.

But the things I listed are greed driven at best and just plain malicious at worst.

I wonder if we'll ever get to a point where we'll put company CEOs in jail for this crap.

I can save you some time here: It probably isn't.

I don't care that this is almost guaranteed to get me modded troll... Linux and OSS as a whole is a clusterfuck in terms of usability for anyone other than an enthusiast.

Granted, MS is working hard to make Linux better than Windows in that regard so it's probably a matter of time until everybody loses.

I haven't learned to enjoy life in 40 years. I don't expect chances of it happening to increase whether I live another 20 or 80 years.

Slow down adopting? Hell no. Acting like this latest tech will cut all costs in half, cure cancer and suck your dick too? Hell yes.

Taking cloud as an example and me being a private cloud engineer, it's not that the tech is bad. It's great actually FOR CERTAIN USE CASES. Not all of them.

We have customers whose CDOs (I am told CTOs are out, now we have Chief Digital Officers in their twenties, fresh out of university) will put you out of the bidding race if your portfolio so much as contains on prem solutions because "you're not in the right mindset".

And the customers pay these buffoons actual salaries, wouldn't you believe it?

So with decades of experience, we cannot even caution these customers to take a second look at what they are about to step into. It's full throttle ahead.

I asked my boss why we even try to get those customers... On the cloud once the customer is onboarded, it takes one click by them to switch them to another specialist and all the long-term income for us is gone. We can't properly bill project costs either because as usual, companies have very interesting ideas about what our time is worth. With on-prem, you calculate that into ongoing cost over the next three or five years and you're golden. You build a relationship, earn the customer's trust and all is well. Nothing of that works in the public cloud.

Not to mention the customers seem to think all you have to do is click a few buttons and presto, your SAP is productive. They seem to have no comprehension of the fact that installing SAP was like 10% of the whole setup cost even in company on-prem scenarios for decades. There's still all that parametrisation because customers keep talking about wanting to standardise their business processes... have been from before ITIL was a thing... fact of the matter is NOBODY EVER CAN.

So yeah, a lot of companies have been, are still or will be paying a LOT of cash for cloud and will come to see that as a waste... you just have to ride out that wave...

The very fact that they would break all supply chains at the same time to implement a new system is precisely why the USSR failed. It like to go all fanboy for new ideas without attributing more than three braincells for longer than a femtosecond to what the fallout of their actions might be.

Chernobyl, Holodomor and many more examples to pick from.

Nobody likes Georgia :D.
(I have never been to the USA, let alone Georgia :D)

As I said, the operation isn't what I take issue with. It is this matter of putting all the responsibility and thus consequences on the passengers' shoulders. If anything goes wrong with your ticket, you get to pay a fine. Almost no recourse. Even if it is their system that fucked up.

...the devil likes it in Nashville, so this makes perfect sense.

Not quite: Unenforcable and illegal are two very distinct states.

One requires the victim to have some knowledge of the law and in that case, the perp just shrugs. Worth a try.

An outright illegal clause will have HR and legal teams sweat bullets (which is the state you as a decent human being always want legal and HR to be in) because if that EVER comes out, the lawsuit will be glorious.

Anyhow, this is a good step and one I never thought the US was capable of. I am part of a facebook group about a chronic disease and the existential fear and anxiety the mostly American people there have is heart breaking... Not only do they have to cope with their sickness, they have to constantly hide it, too. And since that particular disease is anxiety triggered, I would like to equate that existence to a state of hell on earth.

As unimpressed as I am with SBB as a company, I do have to admit that it operates on a pretty high level from a technical standpoint.

Comparing anything the US does to it might be just a tad unfair...

You both seem to be having tunnel vision.

Words like Holocaust and Holodomor have pretty specific history behind them and I will thank you not to water that down.

If what Israel is doing is genocide, then so is what the Russians are doing. It isn't. And that's that.

I gotta say, the more you write, the more I dislike you and my respect for you is ever dwindling.

Function over form. Certain characters get hero status due to their skin color, sexual preference or sex, usually accompanied by a total indifference to proper story telling and character build up.
You are to venerate them without being given reason to do so.

Bonus points if beloved existing characters get killed in silly ways to make a point.