So OpenAI are going to make a microphone / camera and a speaker device - just like Apple, Google, Amazon et al. Ten years too late and probably even shittier than what already exists.

I'm looking at you OpenAI - all those billions you're hemorrhaging can't be replenished for ever. Just die already. Perhaps with that the bubble might burst and RAM will become affordable again.

Yes, most of the difficulty with wine is installing the windows applications, not wine itself. There are many knobs and compatibility options to adjust. Proton has done that for you for a huge number of the games in steam.

Actually it's 3200 and that's not including all the staff disappearing with the sale of some major studios. Basically this is an evisceration and it is clear that the XBox the console is fucked, and what remains will focus on casual and lame content - more Minecraft, more Candy Crush and similar slop.

Github's parent just laid off most of the Xbox division. As bad as it is to drop physical media, it doesn't look like Microsoft is going to last much longer either in that regard.

The fact they're not doing it everywhere indicates they're doing it in Europe through gritted teeth. EU already watered down the legislation so Apple & other phone makers could use "waterproof" as a loophole around the requirement, but for devices that can't like the Switch they're going to do it begrudgingly.

A drone carrying a condom full of epoxy or paint could teabag the camera.

The counter argument, is if they've gone to these efforts to develop chips so thermally & energy efficient for their workload they can run in space then why bother launching them into space in the first place?

... it's just another pack of lies like everything else Musk hypes up.

Anyone not already on Azure / AWS / Google sure as fuck isn't going to use Meta. And with Europeans looking to use sovereign cloud providers, and likely the same happening elsewhere there might be a move away from US providers entirely.

This is also WSL. The container runs against WSL except the command line tool also sets up the cgroups, fs, network at the same time. At present if you want to run a container in WSL you need a shim Linux image like docker-desktop, or install docker daemon / systemd on Ubuntu running under WSL to do this set up.

VirtualBox is a type 2 hypervisor. It incurs significantly larger overheads than running a container against a host's kernel where the processes in the container have very minimal overhead - some cgroup, fs & network overlays but otherwise they're running natively. In addition if I want to run multiple containers as a cluster and setting up all that would be a massive pain in the ass with a VM. Or if I want to build new containers or derive them from existing containers.

That's basically why docker & containerization are so popular for cloud development, CICD and so on. Microsoft presumably recognize its a legitimate use case to be able to launch a container directly rather than through a shim Linux (e.g. "docker-desktop") running under WSL.

I use WSL all of the time for AWS development and it works excellently. I'm able to run native Windows editors and various tools and software while still having a Linux command prompt (and graphical tools via WSLg) for development purposes. I use kubernetes, minikube, docker extensively. I develop containers for CICD and for deployment all from a single environment.

As for Microsoft's intentions, I would suggest it's because the reality is they've lost the war. Most of open source tools and cloud development is Linux based so instead of fighting it they're facilitating it while still providing a desktop that allows people to do Windows-y things at the same time.

People don't buy firesticks to use them as Amazon intended. They buy them because they make convenient devices for "dodgybox" services - streaming pay content etc. So Amazon are right to say they enable piracy. On the flip side, if they shut that door, then who in their right minds would even want to buy the things? I bet a very substantial % of sales of them are for nefarious purposes and if Amazon prevent it then they'll be sitting on a lot of unsold inventory.

It's why I mentioned IBAN and SEPA above. I can pay anybody else in SEPA spanning 41 countries and it doesn't cost a penny unless there is a currency exchange involved. So I could be a German working in Ireland and I pay my landlord €1200 in rent from my German account and it costs me €1200 and they receive €1200. It's usually instantaneous although sometimes it takes a day to clear.

All of the utility companies support direct debit where you give them your IBAN and they deduct the money automatically each month. Some of them offer a small discount for direct debit which means you pay less than if you manually paid with a credit card.