They gave away vmware at the prices before the acquisition. That's the problem. They didn't get big and expensive enough to make an acquisition prohibitive.

Every time we get a great tool that is good, fast and cheap it's bought up by one of these clowns and falls into the 2/3 rule at best. ScreenConnect is another excellent example. DameWare is probably another good example. There's been tons like this.

Now we'll see a ton of money going to AHV, a bit going to hyper-v, and then proxmox will grow exponentially as more and more go to them with real prod loads when all you really need is a basic hypervisor with migrations, clustering and a boatload of 'good enough' features like backups, snapshots, replicated storage and basic HA.

I just blame sysco (and a couple of similar competitors.) When practically one supplier is delivering all the premade bullshit for practically everyone today they unilaterally find ways to add fillers and other bullshit that destroys the flavor we once knew and loved.

So much stuff today is just mass produced tasteless garbage with as many fillers as legally allowed. The flavor we had just a few decades ago was way better than what it is today. The same can be said if you go back a few more decades.

More bigger faster has been the name of the game because prices are commodities and the cheapest tolerable option makes the most money. The really good restaurants cost a fortune and use supply chains outside sysco and a couple others and typically source much higher quality ingredients.

Slopman(s) is probably the term to go with alongside cuckerberg.

...whether we like it or not.

Every few weeks we hear about another call to arms to try and stop a proposal for big brother to spy on all of us in {location}, and each time it's narrowly defeated.

Eventually it's going to pass and it won't be repealed before being implemented. Once that happens it'll never go away.

Whoever manages to setup the full digital ID + ban on all encryption + enforced always-on GPS tracking + internet wide tracking will be able to install whoever they want in power and never, ever let go. No citizen's militia will ever stand up to modern military technology once it's there, and those who control the keys to power know it.

The stock markets see crypto as something that makes them irrelevant if implemented properly.

There is absolutely no reason why all stocks couldn't be token based. There are technical solutions to ALL criticisms whether or not the politics or optics are aligned with this fact.

The stock exchanges make money from selling market data, listing fees, trading fees and selling hosting services to give people who use their markets an advantage if they are willing to pay for infrastructure in the same location to lower latency. All of these things are threatened by decentralized finance.

I'm not saying I trust the current implementation of any crypto product or think that as-is the frameworks we have are good. Just saying this is a fundamental threat to stock exchanges' and their relevance.

It's just so full of shit. It's a wonder it even runs anymore.

At least the linux marketshare is slowly but steadily increasing, so I approve of the enshittification of windows. No better marketing than what they do themselves.

I'm doing my part!

I'm two months in and after the first couple of days I haven't booted up windows other than to check how I had something setup or if I could find an old file in weeks now.

I don't see a reason to keep windows. If I need an office document format I can use web versions. Almost every game just works at this point and the performance deltas are tiny.

The downsides are nothing compared to the benefits imo. It's still tough for the typical non-technical user though to make a change like this because they aren't exposed to it so young like they are to windows and ms office and google stuff today.

The employee portion of insurance premiums at my org is rising 81% this year. They have conveniently not provided the employer share, like they have done all years prior.

I wish I was joking.

items that cost more than what the marketplace sales cap are now below the market cap because they are more easily earnable while deleting tons and tons and TONS of items costing $20 before, now $100 from the store.

The "value" erased is like saying a stock on the stock market is worth 2 billion dollars less, but Valve doesn't earn any profit from skins traded via 3rd party sites, and that's what is hit here.

First party transactions are now generating loads of revenue from transaction fees, bringing the market back to Valve and away from sketchy third party sites.

At the end of the day I can't comprehend why people are paying for this stuff though. It's just a texture which you could trivially mod in before, at least when I was big into CS in 1.X days and CS:S.

The prices are bogus and set by a company with margins that are practically unheard of. Thus far, the lion's share of value with "AI" is going to Nvidia and it's investors. They require an additional license to use their hardware with hypervisors which is additionally predatory - it's akin to charging someone a license for using an AMD cpu or Intel CPU, direct from AMD or Intel, and if you don't pay you can't run a VM or a container.

It makes sense to nationalize GPU production and to ban this one company from the China side anyway. Whatever the pain is now to adapting to hardware not running CUDA is a one time pain. Once built out they have zero reliance on a single source that is controlled by the US charging prices that are easily ten to twenty times what they should be, if not much more.

Once their solution is cheaper and better and available to the western market, it will serve as a launchpad for state backdoors into all kinds of computer systems just like what almost certainly exists in all US based chip companies hardware but could never be admitted.

Come on man, they're never going to drop prices unless it results in more profits.

Any 'green' savings is completely coincidental and heavily marketed for conscientious consumers to make them feel like they're doing some good while they buy more shit they probably don't need.

I donâ(TM)t know much about cellular infrastructure, but on the day of the Boston Bombing there was basically no cell service in a huge area from everyone trying to reach everyone.

It worked out of the city, but in the city near back bay and even beyond it nothing worked.

I suspect in a future emergency that makes the news, combined with normal user phones, the same thing could happen regardless of how much improvements have been made.

Canâ(TM)t social media as much when youâ(TM)re commuting for hours, huh.

for a while.

I don't think online reviews should be trusted anymore. Advertisers have found all the tricks to make ratings look one way or another.

It really sucks because I just want good legitimate information, but everywhere I find we're just bombarded with sponsored content. This trend of 'influencers' is a perfect example.

Just in time to sell after his next kickstarter ships for even more millions!

Itâ(TM)s the circle of liiiiiiiife⦠itâ(TM)s the wheel of fortune⦠so long as the MBA gets to sell the same shit again and get that phat payout.