Steve Mann apparatus was medical, nothing to do with Meta glasses which no one needs. And it was 12 years ago and nobody could corroborate any of his claims. Not saying he is a nutjob here, but he may have blown this thing way out of proportions.

I don't feel Microsoft engineering quality has been declining. It's the same crap again and again.

Airbus scenario:
- Airbus: "Hey, there might be a problem, let's recall 6000 airplanes."

Boeing Scenario:
FCC: Hey, one of your plane fell down.
Boeing: Fucking thrid world pilots don't know how to fly.
FCC: Hey, one of your plane fell down once again.
Boeing: Hmmm? What?
FCC: We ground all of your planes
Boeing: Ok, we will do a recall. See?

I'll take Airbus scenario any day.

If only I had to do it once. But no, most updates (especially dist-upgrades) have me do that all over again time after time.

Also, the fact that I gave only one example doesn't necessarily mean there is only one. I could talk about having to troubleshoot grub in busybox because an update borked the config. I can imagine my father in front of the busybox shell all day long. He'll just buy another computer.

Just try to configure a 4.0 surround sound setup. On windows it's just a couple of clicks. On Ubuntu it's at least a couple of ChatGPT questions involving a new software to install and obscure settings to define.

No, it's nowhere as complete and polished from a personal computer peripheral point of view.

That said, printing on my epson network printer required no download whatsoever, so I guess YMMV

If your computer id idling, they will find a way to fill that void. Trust them.

As much as I love Linux (I have been using it exclusively for the past 20+ years), I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who isn’t very computer-savvy. It requires a fair amount of maintenance. Graphics performance has improved dramatically, but it’s still miles behind macOS and Windows. It’s just not for the masses.

Ok, I'll bite. What on the desktop justify to use *any* memory? Tiny widgets that display the latest rss feed from msnbc ?

You're just lying. 45 in spain last summer, never ever seen before. Records are broken every year. Come on.

FIL has the old compromise of getting memory safety at the cost of a Garbage Collector. This is nothing new, and certainly not something that would compete with Rust.

Nobody outside of the EU wants Starlink anymore since Elon threatened Ukraine to remove their Starlink access unless they sucked Trump's dick.

Now it's clear that Elon is willing to weaponize everyone's access to Starlink to serve his own petty interests. Since then several projects were started all around the world to build competing networks.

Good job Elon at sinking your own company (once again).

Your recommendation would then be to stop all other companies and give Elon the pure monopoly ?

Other than that, I'm not sure what your point it.

No you weren't. You wrote:

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late"

Reid Hoffman originally coined this sentence when discussing startup culture and the launch experience of LinkedIn.

This is the reality of the market. People will jump on the first service available, be it bad or otherwise. The competitor that release its stuff 1 year later has already lost the race.

So the bad technical decision makes market sense. You can either make money with fast crap or go bankrupt with a well engineered project.

So, you know clearly nothing of value here but insist on spouting nonsense at every opportunity. You are either Donald Trump or a troll. Well, both are trolls, so now we know.