So someone has a use-case and experience different than your own, so they and that don't (more/any) deserve respect? He didn't disparage you or your use-case, merely stated his experiences. Your statement above says a lot about you, and it's not great. Not sure why you care so much about X11 vs Wayland, but you need to let it go and realize that everyone has different needs, and comfort levels, and they're not (necessarily) good/bad, better/worse, but mainly just different. In short, grow up.

More to the point, the "else" part is dubious too.

Pretty sure the "almost anything" bit is a HUGE stretch. Cars? Spaceships? etc..

More likely, they want to expand into other areas as a hedge against relying solely on building laptops, especially more expensive ones, for revenue.

They'll probably just spin TikTok off to some US owned holding company that ByteDance continues to own a large chunk of.

That gives the politicians their perceived win against China without really changing much of anything.

The problem is that bad tech companies used to be replaced with new upstarts that were faster to innovate.

That's tough to do with Google, though, which basically has a monopoly on search and controls 60% of the tablets and smartphones on the market. They pretty much control the means of web content hosting and distribution, can bury their competitors in legal paperwork, and can afford to buy out anyone who they couldn't sue into submission.

"Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter."

So Oracle is mostly used by old people?

Va bene cosi.

'You're more likely to end up with six fingers.'

Piano players would LOVE that.

"videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood movie. "

Now they can produce humans that look like something from a Hollywood movie.

The Koch brothers are ALL dead now?

Were can I buy a few for cash?

Not really. This law has an exception for "senior executives" making more than $151,000 a year:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-event...

Most of senior engineers that folks like Apple, Google, and Tesla are actually poaching will make far more than that.

That's one thing, illegally settling lands that they were not handed by the US through the UN is another.

And yet THOUSANDS OF YEARS after the region we're discussing was settled by others.

Those sopwith planes were fighter-bombers. Snipe and Camel could both carry "four 9 kg (20 lb) Cooper bombs".

https://airandspace.si.edu/col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I am simplifying the situation just as much as is called for.

Publicly held corporations exist specifically to separate the people profiting from a corporation's actions from responsibility for those actions. They have no other purpose as literally everything else a public corporation does can be done by some other type of entity.

Yep. For all its drawbacks the PC was an amazing platform for its day.

When it came out, nothing could beat the Amiga for versatility, though. It was even better at having all kinds of stuff on its bus at once than the PC was. The bus wasn't any faster than 16 bit ISA in the real world, but it was at least a dozen times more convenient.