Where is the money going?

Unnecessary layers of process complexity and upper management/C-level bonuses.

Well, Adobe is trying to purchase Figma but is running into regulatory concerns. Their entire reason for making this free to students is to hopefully drown out the negative attention from it being .

That said, Figma is not intended to be an Adobe replacement. Adobe is attempting to buy it to bring it into the fold so that they have a more robust collaborative UI design toolkit.

They're called taxes and infrastructure subsidies. The problem here, oversimplified, are twofold:

1. We already paid "Big Telco" billions for infrastructure and they pissed it away.

2. We allow all companies to not pay their fair share and thus the revenues are down.

Governing and taxation are broken.

https://www.reuters.com/techno...

There really isn't any reason at all to link to a site that has a wall when the same information is available elsewhere.

The only way to get me back (and I assume many others):

1. Spez is immediately removed and gets no $ on IPO for breaking just about every ethical rule in the book. He is a piece of shit human not only for this but many other issues over the years.

2. API access is restored and is reasonably priced. They don't get to determine that price; the market does and the market has spoken.

I don't consider that relevant. No rational person should. We are still pulling oil out of the ground and burning it. Until we can provide for the energy needs of the human race without burning things, it's foolish to bury plastic and mine coal.

I am not a chemist. But, based on the understanding that I have achieved through my investigation into Russian Stoves aka Thermal Mass Heaters, it should be relatively simple to superheat the off gasses generated by the initial burn in a secondary burn chamber, and produce a system that releases only carbon dioxide and water. Plastic is just hydrocarbons.

I know how to solve the problem of microplastics.

Burn the plastic for energy. It is made of oil. We are still extracting oil for energy. Burning used plastic makes sense. It's like using gasoline to store ketchup and then putting it in your car afterwards.

No one has mentioned the possibility of using RDP to connect to a modern computer running Windows 11.

You can buy a computer that is grunty enough to run mutilple sessions simultaneously, and then use these various machines to which you have become accustomed to act as dumb terminals without having to go to much trouble.

Don't connect them to the internet. Do your web browsing and email and whatnot in the remote session. But, you can run that accounting software you started using in 1998, or your favorite DOS games, or whatever makes you still want to use the old machines locally.

People get so caught up in things, they forget that you can get the same happiness sitting outside and staring at the coals of a campfire.

Have you nerds ever sat outside under the stars and stared at the coals of a campfire?

It's a far superior form of passive entertainment than movies, music or video games. But, you would have to experience it to know that.

Windows 11 for ARM runs on my M2 Air w/o issue under UTM as of about a month ago. I could even play some Steam games under it, albeit a bit more slowly than I would prefer, but working regardless.

It's been just fine for doing the minimal things I want to test in Windows w/o moving to the gaming machine.

It's called anabolic steroids. Or testosterone replacement therapy.

I don't think it's funny, personally. I just want to see queer and trans people get the shit beat out of them until they collectively go so far back into the closet that I can forget they exist.

I thought it was courageous of that AI to say that the emperor has no clothes. Because he doesn't.