Broadcom are the tech equivalent of 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli, who became infamous and earned the nickname after he hiked the price of a potentially lifesaving antiparasitic medication in 2015.

Pharma bro logic: The people who pay the massive price hikes will be more than enough to offset the people who die because they cannot afford the medication, and this short-term revenue boost will cover the purchase price, and from that point on it's all free money.
Broadcom bro logic: The companies who pay the massive price hikes will be more than enough to offset the companies who leave because they cannot afford the subscription, and this short-term revenue boost will cover the purchase price, and from that point on it's all free money.

It's the exact same playbook.

I did the same. I wouldn't say I'm happier - as a tech running the show, there are certain niceties I miss. From an overall business decision we are paying far less money and I believe the redundancy / resiliency is much the same and the end users don't see any difference so from that perspective, the business prefers the new solution. At the end of the day it's all about maximising profits, and Proxmox does that vs VMware for sure.

They sound like a good idea at the time, before you chip your front teeth with one.

"I deliver the loops to the AI so that it can write the prompts!! I HAVE LOOPING SKILLS!!!"

The Irony! Alanis Morrissette eat yer heart out.

An here I was thinking that enshittification was the bane of my existence. Prepare yourselves, fine folk, for the oncoming ENSLOPIFICATION!

It doesn't seem any different to all the other soulless brain-rot CGI trailers I see at cinemas, which I have no interest in viewing.

I thought the idea of the Xbox was that game devs knew exactly what platform and hardware specs they were coding for. If any Win11 PC can run xbox games now, then this is 100% broken. This seems like a way for Microsoft to kill off Xbox, without saying they killed Xbox. If I was a game dev, I'd be avoiding anything "Xbox" like the plague.

He's a Neo Nazi because he threw his heart out to a crowd where the ending of said throw KINDA looked somewhat like a nazi salute? Look, I object to a lot of what Musk says, but if you really want to be taken seriously, you need to just drop the whole Nazi shtick, especially given that Musk is an outspoken supporter of the State of Israel. Your claims at this point stretch beyond wishful thinking and into the realm of pure lunacy.

Cool story. I'd have done the same except the installation fees were too much, and was complicated by the fact that the telco had put "pair gain" on our POTS which meant our modems could only train up to 28.8K (sometimes 14.4K) instead of 56K. I remember spending a week downloading RedHat Linux (650MB "CD" version), and immediately after it finished, RedHat released a new version. I had to have the latest, so fired up the downloads for another week. No one could call me for two weeks haha!

"i" what? C'mon man - don't leave us hanging!

Mod parent up, not down!

That doesn't have a problem with this? Movies aren't documentaries. They've been using special effects since like forever in film. This is just another special effect. This seems to have been done very well. I don't even get the "uncanny valley" feeling even though I know it's AI, so they've obviously put in a lot of work, which shows a lot of respect to the late Val, and his estate/family. I think what will suck is if/when this tech is normalised, and they get lazy and don't give it as much polish. So even though I'm saying that the trailer on *this movie* looks fine, I reckon we'll be seeing some very crappy/cheap implementations before too long. Critics will just have to sharpen their pencils for when that happens.

You're American yeah? And you deliberately won't support your own country? The only one to have lost their mind is you... along with any others of your ilk. Sad.

100% We need anti-fraud to serve the taxpayers, rather than just pander to political "culture war" objectives. But to be fair that was valid too - no one can grift like virtue signallers. But yeah - there is a shitload of other areas to investigate - especially the military industrial complex.