What is the alternative to SharePoint that isn't just as bad?

Check the link I posted. I'll quote the first line for you:

"Measurements show that about 10% of the aerosol particles in the stratosphere contain aluminum and other metals that originated from the âoeburn-upâ of satellites and rocket stages during reentry."

That was published in 2023 so I would expect that percentage to be rising due to all the new Starlink satellites, followed by other mega constellations.

"It takes four hundred thirty people to man a starship. With this, you don't need anyone. One machine can do all those things they send men out to do now. Men no longer need die in space, or on some alien world. Men can live, and go on to achieve greater things than fact-finding and dying for galactic space, which is neither ours to give or to take. They can't understand. We don't want to destroy life, we want to save it!" - Dr Daystrom

If you ignore the plot of the episode (where M5 is doing buggy shit and taking Daystrom's sanity with it), I think his speech sums up my outlook on technological progress pretty well. If somewhere, someone is toiling, that's an error to be corrected. In a weird way, creating the fat slobs of WALL-E is, in fact, the goal. (Though for some reason, I prefer to picture Hedonismbot from Futurama as my true ideal.)

As for how to solve the resulting "finally, we can all afford to be fat slobs, so now we are all fat slobs" problem, I dunno, someone else can worry about that. ;-)

That's the issue, when they burn up it's like burning any other rubbish, only in the upper atmosphere. Like aviation emissions, which are worse due to the altitude they happen at.

If we knew what was in the satellites and had a well funded study, we could get a pretty good idea of the consequences.

To be fair to Microsoft, Sharepoint was probably never pitched as secure for use in nuclear weapon facilities.

I'm not saying Microsoft's security isn't bad, but you need to take it to another level when you are dealing with state level hackers. Air gaps and machines with immutable software, that kind of thing.

People have been complaining since 2018.

It might be fine, but it might not - we don't know. We don't know the exact composition of the satellites, but based on what is likely it seems that there could be significant environmental effects, e.g. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary....

At best we need to do more research in this area: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/...

In the new CEO's expertly crafted I-am-villain statement; he explains: "The past, he added in an email, is “simply not relevant to the new future.”"

I, um, guess it was polite of him to not talk about "the bigger picture" to the people whose eyes he shut down?

This fantasy that if we just streamlined production by mass producing reactors is ridiculous. If you look at what the specific problems and costs were, it's obvious that you aren't going to make nuclear cheap that way.

In my experience apt doesn't just work. To give you a recent example I upgraded LinuxPTP on RPi OS, and the apt version was broken. Ended up downloading source and compiling it myself.

That's the key difference, it really does actually work. The Windows one also has a lot of non-free software, and while I prefer Free software, I need some proprietary stuff, and so do many users.

Seriously?

"We have been working on it for over 75 years, just give us a bit more money and I swear it will finally be as cheap as promised!"

I mostly use F-Droid on Android, not Google Play. It just works, apps have permissions that are easy to control, and other than sometimes saying an app is too old for my version of Android, it all just works.

On Windows I mostly use winget for apps, again few issues with compatibility.

On Linux I often find that software from repos is broken and flatpaks don't work. A lot of stuff comes as a Docker container now, but those can be hit and miss as well. The Docker Compose configuration file format seems to be designed to cause maximum pain and suffering.

Will these ones retain vendor support longer than the last batch?

Reality TV and social media made the idiots louder, but worse than that it make them easier to manipulate. We saw interference via social media during recent elections and referendums, and traditional media like Fox News and GB News have taken lying to their audiences to another level.

It's basically a fight between billionaires and foreign powers to see how can screw things up the most in their own favour now, and useful idiots are the tools.

GNOME is an abomination, but it's not just that. If you check the video I posted in another comment, the guy talks about how he settled on a Pop OS derivative, which is itself a derivative of Ubuntu, which is derived from Debian, because it actually just worked for the basic writing and note taking he wanted to do. The others failed not because GNOME is awful, but because the two bits of software he wanted were broken out of the box.

The way Linux is, package maintenance is a massive overhead that frequently goes wrong. Linus even commented on it a few years ago, saying it was an inferior way of distributing software compared to competing operating systems, and a waste of the maintainers' time. I tend to agree, the way Android and Windows do it are both superior.