Ahh the memories. I remember administering those systems back in the day. They were all pretty nice compared to the state of Windows at the time. But they certainly were idiosyncratic. In the early 2000s I finally migrated all of our unix labs at the Computer Science department at Uni to Linux from those systems. Was pretty amazing that a $1500 PC with Linux could do everything those $10k and $15k workstations were doing. Was a bit sad when our old HPUX NFS file server went out the door. But the Linux monster that replaced it was pretty amazing.

Do you have a lot of clients running those old unix systems? Are HPUX and AIX still being sold?

Yes life was pretty good on the Intel Macs. User-upgradeable RAM, SSDs that could be replaced and upgraded. Tis not so now.

Yes on the Intel series it was pretty easy. On the M series iMacs? Not possible.

The sense of entitlement is also one that YouTube executives feel very much as well. They are sharing less and less ad revenue with creators. Nearly everyone I watch expresses frustration over YouTube and how their revenue has gone way down over the last two yeas. Without the creators YouTube would have nothing.

YouTube's year-on-year revenues have grown steadily. They are making money hand over fist through advertising regardless of a small percentage of viewers blocking ads.

A fair number of the channels I watch are now streaming on other platforms including Odysee. I think somehow they use micro crypto to pay content makers and according to EEVBlog at one time he was making more money on Odysee than YouTube. This is something I could get behind. Similar to value-for-value podcasting.

Well he wants the breakage to be noticed so that coders will fix their parser bugs. So in this case, yes, "dramatic" is an appropriate word. Maybe not the best choice, but it works. If the breakage was subtle and minor, it might go unnoticed by some of the authors of the bad parsers. At least that's how I read it.

If you want consumers to be comfortable with not owning anything, then you need to be honest and just charge a monthly fee and be done with it. If the game is decent poor saps will sign up and give you money each month.

Nope I didn't get it straight. That's not the basis of this particular threat. Sorry for the noise.

Let me get this straight. They develop open source software, later relicense the code under proprietary terms, pull all the former code from the internet, and then start suing people for using the open-source code downloaded earlier. As proof of wrong-doing they simply show their relicensed code which is, surprise, identical to the open source code. I sure hope any judge would immediately see the dishonesty. Maybe they are hoping scare tactics will be sufficient. This is certainly an interesting strategy by HashiCorp. Sadly I'm sure a lot of companies are going to be following their example.

Asahi Linux is the only game in town and itst pretty good. In fact it runs better than Linux does on any other ARM computer or there.

I assume a large percentage of would-be M4 customers are going to be existing Mac users, so we might see an increase in used M1,2, and 3 machines on the market. These machines run Asahi Linux fairly well. In fact they are the only Linux ARM computers on the market I would ever consider buying (sorry Pine64), outside of IoT with a Pi.

They honestly wonder why they didn't get any community engagement? The way they license it I get the feeling they were hoping people would simply do VMS's documentation and QA work for them. I understand VMS is an extremely niche system now, with minimal interest at all, commercial or not. But honestly if they ever wanted any sort of community at all, it's going to have to be open source.

The problem with health care insurance vs say fire insurance is that while in both cases you normally don't need to exercise it, in the case of health care, when you do need it, you typically need a lot of it, for long periods of time. This is very different than property insurance where it may pay out from time to time to cover storms, etc, or a big payment of the value of the home when a home is destroyed. At the latter case, the insurance policy is generally done; the building the insurance covered is now gone. If you get cancer, insurance starts paying large amounts and that will continue over long periods of time, perhaps until you eventually die. Even the normal aging process guarantees you'll need more health insurance payouts as you age. Another difference is that if property insurance is too expensive, you can always sell and move to a better, more insurable place. Can't do that with your body, although people try.

I have no problem with the idea of insurance in general. It's a brilliant solution to a costly problem. I do have issue with the fact that a large, for-profit industry has arisen around it.

You've never tried to use one of the many Arm SoCs with Linux? Windows on Arm is nonexistent thus far. Linux on Arm is a horrible experience frankly except for a very few number of devices such as the Pi, but even there, there are proprietary bits. Every device requires a distro and kernel fork for the particular chipset. Like I said, no standardization of the platform at all. I cannot just download a standard, generic distro and run it on any Arm device. This is quite different from the Intel world.

If MS wants to do what Android does and rely the vendors to provide crappy interfaces to the hardware, they sure could. But we all know how well Windows RT worked out for them.

I guess I agree with you that I'm highly skeptical of MS's ability to succeed in Arm.

Depends on the measure of success. In the wasteland that is the Android phone, yes Arm is truly successful, and that's really all they care about, honestly. And if MS wants to do it that way, they probably will find some success, but not a lot. Windows RT was their last foray into this world, and it was majorly unsuccessful.

If we ever have general-purpose Arm laptops and desktops, it will absolutely require some standardization. Linux on Arm totally sucks rocks. Which is sad, because a lot of Arm systems, even SoCs, are really capable. We keep talking on slashdot about Arm taking on Intel, but unless there are major changes it's just never going to happen. And I'm okay with that. But sadly it seems like RISC V is going down the same path as Arm. So We'll never really see RISC V linux laptops that compete with Intel.

This totally. Totally baffles me why such fundamental usability features are missing from macOS. And to a lesser extent, Windows also. I suspect it is because the UI toolkits on both platforms are very inflexible and rely on fixed layouts.

Even zooming the whole screen is difficult in macOS. Since the monitor is HiDPI, macOS presents very limited choices for "screen resolution." I found a third-party utility that creates a virtual screen of any size and then you mirror that into your primary screen which sort of works, but it has many many drawback (sucks basically).