Not everything is about angular resolution. The Hubble is an old hat now. Let's talk JWST instead, that thing has an insane angular resolution. However it would be absolutely useless for the purposes of a sky survey. Much like a hammer is not a very useful tool for screwing a screw.

So you would rather contribute to the world burning instead of addressing the actual problem with a solution the French used in 1793 to address the problem of a ruling class? Why contribute to the race to the bottom.

Oh fun fact the place where the certain solution from 1793 happened is called "Place de la Concorde"

So it was US protectionism that caused France banned Concord flights over land blocking the use of a French company's product but not Boeing and McDonnell Douglas?

I think you are letting your bias do the talking rather than any of your actually functioning braincells. This had nothing to do with protectionism.

So just to be clear, you have always downloaded digitally and now that discs are no longer going to be available you will continue to download digitally?

Incidentally how were you pirating on the PS5? - Is your post even relevant to the topic or are you using a company unrelated to what you play as a scapegoat to feel better about yourself?

Don't gaslight. There are countless people who separate gun owners and gun nuts. Most people don't have a problem with recreational shooters, hunters, or any other sports people. It's the people who think they need an arsenal to protect their land, or those who are afraid the government is coming and need to defend themselves who are labelled "gun nuts". There's also nutty gun culture separate from gun nuts, the idea that you need a gun for defense in a world where you're worried about getting shot because everyone has a gun. They can fall under gun nuts as well, lawful ones, but none the less ones who massively contribute to the problem in the USA that puts gun violence and deaths the highest in the western world.

I got pulled over by police 3 weeks ago. At no point was a gun mentioned. They didn't ask if I had one, they never approached the vehicle with their hands on theirs. Compared to that the entire USA has "nutty gun" culture.

No one is questioning smart people. They are just few and far between.

Farming is a good example. A couple of people can these days run a mega farm, with orders of magnitude more output than tending the fields in the days of yore. The question is, why are farmers working hard? The answer is the profit motives that push them to do so regardless of what high level output they provide.

Throughout all of human history this has been a concern and throughout all of human history this scenario has proven false / elusive. We don't run out of jobs. Jobs are simply a fundamentally limiting factor in economic output.

I believe it has happened, but it has zero to do with Windows. Both Windows and Linux provide methods for UEFI updates. PC vendors provide pretty rubbish updates, and motherboard vendors provide pretty rubbish UEFI implementations. I have zero reason to think that the GP made this up, but it also has zero to do with Windows itself.

I'm not sure anyone would be using WSL for a server / backend for anything other than testing / development purposes. This approach doesn't make much sense.

As for the container, the question is, why not? As it stands you can already run Linux containers under windows. A popular use case is AI tools, a lot of which are built around python and target Linux environments and are containerised.

But the question is ... Docker already runs Linux containers on Windows, so why do you need Linux in a container in WSL for this application.

I'm developing for a microcontroller so why I don't I run Visual studio on a microcontroller? Obvious obtuse example aside, cross platform development has been a thing since development has been a thing. Just because you're a Windows shop with Windows computers doesn't mean you are developing Windows only software. There's a use case for containers, just like there was a use case for WSL, or for Virtual machines, or for physical machines. It can serve as a useful development environment.

That's an unfair comparison. Porsche belong in a dump truck. Linux doesn't belong in a container.

That's not a Windows bug, Windows actively has an interface to update UEFI. The problem is with the UEFI implementation. There's countless examples out there of people corrupting UEFI from Linux as well, which also provides an interface to update UEFI.

You sound like a tiny company to a) not have support, and b) not already have bitlocker active on your devices. I'm not surprised they don't rush to help.

Embraced: "enthusiastically accept a new idea, belief, or change"

So you say they didn't embrace something, but then proceed to give an example of them embracing said thing?

You got that backwards. The lockdown and provided tools for management of windows is precisely why it *is* trusted in corporations. It's far easier to manage systems and lock down users than on Linux where management is a bit more of a wild west of applications.

Now you personally at home, that's a different story. But then you're probably weren't running something cross OS platforms in a container anyway.

Microsoft currently make more money from Linux than Windows. Azure is its biggest division and Linux is it's most popular product running Azure clients. They are investing in Linux and Linux compatibility precisely because they realise they have a lot more to gain by monetising their former enemy than attempting to destroy it.

Most chat apps have already migrated to Giphy. You won't even notice a blip in use on the day of the shutdown.

I'm not amazed at all. Google provides long notice periods and where data is affected the ability to export and migrate. They've also virtually never shut down something without an alternative in place (and in this case there are many alternatives to Tenor and most apps out there have migrated to alternatives already).

By comparison there's a LOT of companies out there who just suddenly kill services without a significant notice period. When you compare to them the actual business risk of doing anything with Google is incredibly low.