Groups are made up of individuals who have rights, Nazi dumb fuck.

Mod this down too, troll. I got karma to burn.

And we even have the Magnuson Moss act which protected our right to warranty services even after third party repairs, including our own.

Sure, but they collected the bonus for reduced costs already, and if enough work isn't being done they just crack the whip harder or recommend replacing people with AI. They are not rational actors.

Weird I had to scroll down more than halfway to find this. People buying this laptop are special. Of course they make special choices.

Google has reduced the value of Gemini to near zero with their web search Gemini results. If you search for anything that you know things about, you rapidly see that it doesn't know shit about shit. They say that those results are produced with an inferior version of Gemini that's cheaper to run. Well, guess what? It just makes them look like incompetent assholes every time anyone who knows anything does a web search.

Apple HAD servers and enterprise management. Then they discontinued it.

Yeah, there are corporate customers fed up with Microsoft. But they won't trust Apple after two rug pulls. They'd go to Linux first. Apple could do those things and STILL not be successful, after they poisoned their own well. Again, twice.

Back before Solaris, SunOS was a truly great BSD. It really didn't cause you any problems. Sure, for early ones you needed to relink libc to get DNS resolution, but at least they gave you enough tools to do that with!

Even Solaris was pretty non-irritating up through about 7...

Windows 3.1 debuted at $149. OS/2 2.1 was $249, so for $400 you could get both OS/2 and Windows 3.1, and run software for both. There was approximately no desktop software for Xenix, and most people didn't have enough machine to run X11 gracefully anyway, which took a LOT more RAM than Windows 3.1 and a bit more than OS/2. So, no, and also no.

There were lots of good reasons for it. It was a superior OS on all levels. But the prices were absurdly higher than the competition. Consequently it only got picked up to do big jobs were reliability really mattered, like run the POS at McDonalds, or delivery routing and tracking systems (I worked briefly for a company called ADAQ which sold such a system for SCO Xenix.) There was nothing you could do to make DOS reliable enough for multiple users; if you wanted one system with terminals, Xenix was a rational choice.

Just because you aren't seeing the oil barons' personalities, that doesn't mean that they aren't even worse than Leon's. It only means that they are either smart enough not to be in public, or disinterested enough in us peons that they don't interact with us. They don't care if they set the whole world on fire in order to live a life close to kings, they are simply not better people.

Yeah. Even the UK is in on it with Rolls Royce. That's going to be a big waste of money. Public money.

Oh look, someone who doesn't understand that if anyone is denied due process, everyone is.

Anyone who cannot understand why the fourth reich is rising should just read your comment so they can understand how stupid Americans are.

Based "we have huge sums of money to throw at AI, and most if it will be wasted but if we buy into the next Google early enough we can become trillionaires."

X-energy is probably a scam. Their website gives it away: https://x-energy.com/xe-100/

A little 80MWe reactor, obvious lie about the land use requirements. It needs a water pump to avoid melting down, so it's "intrinsically safe" design is clearly bollocks. Hilariously they claim that their SMR is "economically viable" while others are not. Their FAQ on load following gives the game away too - they use 40% as the low point for ramping, i.e. it can't integrate well into a modern grid.

Of course they don't have a working prototype and don't seem to have any credible timescale for building one. Certainly no licence in place.

A great example of how racism screws over everyone, even the members of the dominant race.

Stuff like Netware was shit, but it was also cheap. From a business perspective, if it does what the business needs, even if it's a nightmare for admins and users, they aren't going to spend any more money on something that is technically better.