You know what you sound like? Exactly the type of victim that Broadcom build most of their business model on.

Have you met young people that intentionally became Windows admins? Or the windows admins (the legitimate ones) you can hire out of, say, India? My guess is with your history, you probably have not.

No argument from me that you get dumb Unix admins as well.

The need for them came from relativity, but the atomic clocks needed to be able to handle such fine corrections are based on the hyperfine transition of 133Cs. You're not getting very far on atomic clocks without particle physics

Okay Felicia.

Sounds like Newton. Long tradition, I guess

"Okay, nuclear power. Yeah. Yeah, they did give us that. That's true. "

"And industrial-scale superconducting magnets!"

"Don't forget GPS satellite relativistic corrections!"

"And radioisotope therapy!"

"Electron beam therapy?"

"World Wide Web, wasn't that created by particle physicists?"

"Yeah, they did do that."

"Capacitative touchscreens too, you know."

"All right, all right, FAIR ENOUGH! But APART from computers, telecommunications, nuclear power, PET scans, MRIs, satellite communications, superconductors, radioisotope therapy, electron beam therapy, heat-shrink tubing, cargo and baggage screening, smoke detectors, muon tomography, capacitative touchscreens, and the World Wide Web, WHAT HAS PARTICLE PHYSICS EVER DONE FOR US?!"

"Synchrotron light sources for drug discovery?"

"Oh, drug discovery?! GROW UP!"

I had a very important word in there: "most". You may want to think about the implication of that word for a singular case. You clearly need to improve your reading comprehension skills.

The cost for all the negative side-effects is already larger than any potential benefits can ever be.

Yeah, what has a better understanding of particle physics ever done for US, huh??? ... ...

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Probably because people are stupid and inflexible. Well. Looks like Broadcom knows the idiots they are exploiting very well.

And yet, you could have, at really small costs, made sure all your infrastructure also runs on Proxmox. May even have saved you money in the process because things would have done cleaner and that always pays off. An ounce of preparation ...

Exactly. A small bit of foresight and preparation saves you a mountain of effort and cost later.

To be fair, most people working as Windows sysadmins would not have that job if they were smart and capable.

Indeed. Obviously MS does not want that question asked because the answer to it is pretty obvious: Windows adds cost and problems.

Funny how that goes, isn't it? The thing is propaganda is a lie. It targets emotions (here the feeling of being unsafe) and tries to amplify them and then bind them to something the propaganda-maker sells. Works the same for tooth-paste, cameras or Fascism: The aim is to bypass the rational assessment of things. And, sadly, it works on a _lot_ of people because generally speaking people cannot fact-check for shit in the first place and this emotional approach bypasses what small skills they may have in that area nicely. It also means that anybody using this approach is not a good person because things built on lies never work out.