Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

I know we're a smaller chunk of the pie, but I do actively run FreeBSD on a number of desktops, workstations, and laptops here at home, of both the x86/AMD64 and ARM/Aarch64 variety. Because FreeBSD lives in the world that Linux did a while back, a fuckton of us fake our user agents because shit ass web devs STILL put hard checks into their code that says "your OS isn't supported on our site, therefor you cannot browse it" even though the OS makes fuck all difference inside of a web browser.

File this under the "NO SHIT" department.

Do you think the US Military is buying random shit on Amazon? Of course they are! It may even be at the individual person level, but its totally still a thing.

Alibaba is Chinese Amazon. Yes, they buy products.

Oh, okay, what about the OTHER stuff Alibaba does?

Yes, they're also Chinese AWS. Do you think the military uses cloud computers? Of fucking course they do.

I thought the replacement was Fuchsia !?

Oh wait, that's right... This is the company that brought you: Voice, Chat, Talk, Hangouts, Google+, Groups, Meet, Messages, SMS, RCS, Gmail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

*NOBODY* asked for this. This is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what people use Notepad for. And because of these transitions, they've turned Notepad into a buggy piece of shit. Each update, more and more basic features have become unusable. They even broke basic ability to type into it in certain circumstances, ya'know, literally its most basic core feature!? Oh, right, "AI" should be typing for you now I guess!? UGH!

"Linux" appears ZERO times in the specification.

This is a specification for UNIX. Linux copied from UNIX but is not UNIX. If you'd like to try out a UNIX variant however, the BSDs such as FreeBSD are direct descendants of AT&T Research UNIX.

INB4 "But Linux is more popular" - yes, yes it is, and it is because of EXACTLY things like this, which attribute things to Linux which are NOT Linux and don't mention Linux at all.

Trillion Dollar Company trying to drum up sympathy for its gouging of small independent developers.

That's where Sonder was different. It wasn't individuals renting things out. Sonder owned properties that were closer to full apartment buildings and rented out the units much more similarly to as if it were just a hotel.

I stayed in one in San Diego a few years back, not even knowing it was some sort of "AirBNB competitor", I was just "booking a hotel" and it looked neat and price was decent. In the end, the room was great, right in the part of town I wanted to be in, and had plenty of room and a full kitchen. It felt like a mini apartment.

Check eBay for the BC250, its basically the rejects of the PS5 APU (binned lower than Sony wants in their consoles), used for "crypto", and now being sold for pennies on the dollar on the used market since they're not good for that anymore.

https://github.com/mothenjoyer...

There are very VERY few things that are cheaper in the cloud. You're just trading one expense for another, not eliminating it.

To date, the most cost-effective thing in the cloud is still DNS hosting, because who the hell wants to run thousands of DNS hosts globally distributed, with all the maintenance that comes with it?

But for compute, or storage, or bandwidth: on-prem will always win in cost.

"full-size electric pickup"

That's your problem. And you even admit it.

"the arrival of a cheaper midsize EV truck undermine the business case"

MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT A "FULL-SIZED" FUCKING TRUCK. THEY'RE TOO GODDAMN BIG.

A friend of mine has one, and its been nice for a few very VERY niche things we've needed to haul, otherwise, the thing is a goddamn massive tank that is far too large to easily park in any tight parking lot. It is a total pain in the ass getting around town in the thing.

Back in my day, the F-150 was a small to mid-sized truck, not an overwhelming behemoth. Release a small sized and mid sized electric pickup. That's it. That's the business plan. YOU LITERALLY just admitted it. So just do it yourself !?

ssh [hostname]
shutdown now -h

(just wait until they learn there is a security flaw in most computers that allows them to be remotely deactivated as well)

Basically the examples I just gave: using hardware crypto or hardware vector instructions are the main thing, or things similar to these. The code usually has raw C/C++ fallbacks anyways, so its just a matter of getting the proper #ifdef [arch] gates in place, and sometimes adding in the crypto/vector instructions for the given platform to ensure it operates optimally.

I'm someone who's handled a few hundred packages porting to ARM, not at google, but in the F/OSS community. The reality isn't "porting to ARM", its "porting away from X86", removing or gating x86-isms. The work to port to ARM is 95% already the same work needed to port to RISC-V. The main difference in hardware platforms is when dealing w/ hardware level crypto instructions or vector instructions, but again these are gated in libraries, and adding in the gates for ARM gives the vast majority of the work already needed for RISC-V.

To add some insights into this, granted I'm a sample size of 1...

2.4GHz spectrum from my unit is fairly crowded.

But 5GHz lack of ability to penetrate many walls means it is almost entirely clear. And as of right now, I cannot see ANYONE else using 6GHz from my scanning, so I have 100% availability currently of this spectrum. Granted, 6GHz devices are much newer, as 5GHz goes all the way back to the original 802.11a spec, but even then, I see minimal usage on two channel ranges at 80MHz channel widths, with the four others entirely clear for my usage.