I just attended an HPE/MS webinar about "Azure Local", or simply Azure On Premise. I haven't been so amused in quite a while.

If you treat it as a tool it works just fine. Yes, if you want better results you need to learn to ask better questions, but it is not difficult to figure out. As one person noted in the comments here- it is basically a glorified search engine. When I google for information I get links I then evaluate to see if they fit my issue. With ChatGPT I describe the situation, ask the question, and generally get an answer I can use, but, and this is HUGE, you need to know what you are doing in the subject you are asking about because YOU are the final arbiter of what might and might not work.

"If you are not shoving a million bucks a year in our pockets we don't want to look at you, let alone hear from you."

Broadcom appears to have the attitude that if you are not stuffing at least a million dollars a year in their pockets they want nothing to do with you. I used to deploy new VMWare instances almost weekly- now I migrate folks to other products from VMWare.

Broadcom has made it very clear that they do not want any small shop business. If you are not dropping $10M a year in their pockets you do not exist.

"The analysis, based on official figures and commercial data, shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable, or falling, for more than a year."

If you are foolish enough to trust Chinese government information you basically are begging to be shocked, SHOCKED, at the inevitable revelation that they were a fantasy.

A 10% cap on interest means only the wealthy and folks with credit scores north of 750 will get a credit card. Not necessarily bad, but I can see folks bitching about how the poor are being frozen out of credit markets.

48% more chargers than gas pumps is not surprising. 5 minutes to fill a gas tank, 30 minutes to get a decent charge. I am surprised the difference is not larger, but CA likely needs more generation capacity to get the numbers up where they need to be.

It is about identifying Deep Pockets for law suits, nothing more.

You missed the two largest and growing emitters on the planet: China and India. With their output alone they swamp any improvements in the west. Of course, the Chinese will tell you to sod off, and the Indians are not so eager to stay in 3rd world status, either.

I've already migrated a few customers from VMWare to Nutanix and other platforms. Some of them were pretty damned big. Never took that long.

Indeed.

They are batteries, not generators. Something else has to fill them up before they can supply any power. Whatever is used must be replaced. Now, are they useful? Damned straight they are. But the generate nothing.

EV's are magnificent in cities- absolutely. Cities smell by their nature, cutting out all the tailpipe emissions cannot help but improve things... and EV's are NOT going to be very popular in rural areas, or with anyone who does not own a house or condo where they can charge at home. Policy and mandates cannot change that.

In the US the generation infrastructure required to do a full conversion to EV is at least a 25 to 50 year project- we are talking about 98 Terawatts of energy, folks. Not going to get that from windmills.

Pretty much, yeah. On the other hand, it will be the end of Social Media, so that's nice.