Why on earth does the USA still cling to the use of checks?

"Here, I'm going to write down an IOU on this piece of paper to pay for the thing" - uh, yeah, sure, and now I have to trust that the check (that has nowhere near the security features of actual currency) is legit, and that you are going to have money in your account at the time I try to deposit it.

Like, seriously?

What's wrong with electronic funds transfers? They're instant, don't have any fees and I can see the money in my bank account within seconds of someone transferring it to me. Or, for paying for things at a store, use a card. Tap and go. It's safe, it's secure and it's fast.

HP simply has no idea what Teradici is.

I've wanted to buy Teradici for a couple of architecture studios that I work with. The idea being the heavy-duty CAD workstations will live in a rack in a climate-controlled room, and all of the architects will work on a cheap desktop PC, or on their laptops from wherever they are.

I've spoken to HP directly, multiple times, and no-one could give me a straight answer as to what SKUs I needed to purchase, or even what the hardware requirements would be for a simple studio setup with 10-20 CAD workstations being served out to the architects via PCoIP.

I wanted to give them money, and they couldn't work out how to take it.

Teradici is actually a really good product, and the performance is amazing.
HP don't seem to know what it is, what to do with it or how to sell it.
I've attempted to buy Teradici for a number of clients over the years, dealing directly with HP, and no-one has known anything about it, what licensing is required for a simple setup, or what other hardware and software requirements there are beyond the marketing copy on the website.

I've demoed it, and actively wanted to give HP my money and they couldn't work out how to sell it.

You can use Islands for a comments section on a blog where the main post page itself is statically generated just once, but then the comments section is dynamically generated each time, or to have your user avatar and logged-in status in the header of an otherwise static page.

Astro is (largely) a static site generator.
You have a collection of pages in your source tree - e.g. a bunch of files in Markdown format.
Then, when you make a change to the content, Astro ingests all of this, grinds it up and spits out a bunch of static html and css. You can still use JavaScript for interactivity with elements on the page (e.g. an accordion or a slider), but unlike something like WordPress which has all the content in a database and generates each page on-the-fly, all content in Astro is statically generated – the analogy is that Astro is like a compiled language, whereas WordPress is like a scripting language.

Astro blurs the line slightly with Islands, so you can have dynamic content in an otherwise static site – e.g. you could use it for a comments section on a blog where the main blog post is statically generated just once, but then the comments section is dynamically generated each time, or to have your user avatar and logged-in status in the header of an otherwise static page.

Mate, you don't think the engineers, physicists and materials scientists that designed this machine would have taken all of this into account?

Like with Samsung's The Frame TV, where you can plug in a USB to load your own artwork?

"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" – Homer Simpson

Let's just say they're amortising the purchase price of the 200 Mac minis over 3 years.
How much were they spending on cloud-hosted machines? For them to be not just breaking even, but saving $2.4M, they must have previously been spending more than $2.4M over 3 years.
Split across 200 machines, $2.4M is $12,000 per machine. Over 36 months this is more than $330 per machine per month.
When the cost of a base model Mac min is $599, this doesn't add up. Even the most expensive M4 Pro Mac mini with a 14-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64 GB unified Memory, 8 TB storage and 10Gb Ethernet is only $4,699.

Even if they're getting the big brother of the mini, the Mac Studio, it still costs less than $12,000 for an M3 Ultra with 32 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores, 512 GB unified memory and 8 TB storage (total cost $11,699)

They're not forced to move to Microsoft 365 as I'm guessing that they won't have deployed Office Online Server anyway, they will have the native desktop apps installed instead.

I remember the days when people were talking about Compu$erve.
The problem is that I want a full and intelligent discussion that can stand on its own merits without resorting to name-calling. If you have a valid argument (and there are plenty of valid arguments against TPM) then It's just not necessary to get the point across.

It's hard to take someone seriously when they can't even use the proper terms for things they are talking about.

Sure, you may not like what a TPM is and what it does, but to call it a "Treacherous Platform Module" instead of a "Trusted Platform Model" shows me that you need to resort to name calling just to try and get your point across. Similarly for people who refer to "Micro$oft" or "Winblows", look, I get your point, but you're talking about technical things where correctness matters. At least use the proper name for something and then tell me in a clear and concise fashion exactly why it's no good.

iOS is not BSD.

iOS is the Mach microkernel with FreeBSD APIs and mostly FreeBSD userspace binaries.

iOS is a Unix-like operating system, based on macOS.

macOS is an honest-to-goodness Unix.
https://www.opengroup.org/open...

There are plenty of American traditions when interacting with others that to the rest of the world seem moronic.
For example: having employers legally permitted to pay front of house staff less than the minimum wage because you, as a patron, are expected to volunteer a tip to make up the shortfall.

Yes, I fear this is the future we have ahead of us.
Hopefully (ha!) Apple Silicon machines will have more uniform capabilities across generations so that older hardware can be supported for longer (wishful thinking, I know)