I see your point, but I find little value in it personally....though I suppose I see little value in people who engage in "traditional" marketing as well.

degree that provides little value to society. Surely worth mom and dad siphoning the savings or taking out debt to develop those narcissism skills.

A lot of people won't know that as they (like my family) simply cut the cord years ago and have zero intention of returning.

Color me as one of those folks that will sign up if I really want to watch a show, binge watch all of the content over the course of a few weeks, then cancel. So streaming service XYZ will get precisely one month of subscription fees from me. The only exception is Amazon as I get enough value from Prime (not paying shipping fees) that I don't mind consuming the other stuff that they "throw in." When I'm asked to pay more for any of those "extras" I cancel it.

...but I'm unclear on how these changes would impact (or not) my life as a daily user of a linux desktop and occasional server. Not everyone is a kernel developer.

Off to Madagascar with us in a yellow submarine!

Those things weren't exactly flying off the shelves at the old price and were frequently discounted. I don't know what Fox was thinking, but I guess there's some M&A lawyers out there that thought it was somehow going to be an addition to their earnings. I guess we'll soon find out.

is its own reward.

People are f'ing crazy.

Sherlock has managed to highlight the already well documented fact that the US has under-invested in its power grid. For their next trick, there will be a page-turner on the sky being blue.

MSFT wants to sell you and your enterprise the tools and capacity to bug hunt your own code and allegedly help you "drive costs" out of your operations. I suspect this is more of a "look, we are eating our own dog food!" exercise to drive sales.

They're trying to slap the copilot moniker on anything they can lay a hand on to further that goal. Someone's gotta pay for all that capex they're pushing into their datacenter infrastructure....might as well be you.

and perhaps more to do with them failing to shake down their customers for incremental subscription-based revenue streams. Confronted with heavy handed "we're bundling all this extra stuff you don't want or use in with whatever you currently have and we're going to charge you more for all that 'additional value you're getting'....even if you've been shrinking your overall IBM hardware/software footprint."

Hard pass.

I don't believe that shit for a nanosecond. Spare me.

It is. And the market is ultimately going to push back. I will have zero sympathy when the the value of these companies comes crashing back down when reality returns to the market.

copilot is still a mess.

Cable TV was initially ad free too. And so was Amazon Prime. The slimy advertising folks always find a way to "add value" by disrupting our viewing experience. Except for the people selling "advertising" you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that actually wants to see ads.

Why would the earth huggers think that an American regulatory body would have jurisdiction in this case? Outer space is OUTSIDE of the United States.