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Comment Re:I Don't Blame Them (Score 1) 58

Microsoft announced in January that they would be building $80 billion in new datacenters for 2025. By the end of February they were already announcing that that this was no longer the case and that they would actually be pulling back from that target and were actually canceling leases.

Of all of the technology companies Microsoft is absolutely the worst at actually designing and building products. But they are very good at business.

Comment Re:Make America (Score 1) 295

Yeah, but what is really going to happen is that Trump is going to fully Jimmy Carter the economy. It was 16 years after Jimmy Carter before the Democrats even had a chance at a presidential election. I am a life long conservative who has always voted against Trump, mostly because I oppose his views on immigration, and it is discouraging to me that the party that used to stand for small government and free trade now has fallen to this.

Trump was able to carry enough of the fiscal conservatives in the last election to win, mostly because these conservatives mistakenly thought that Harris would be worse. Now they know the difference, but it is too late. Whoever gets elected to try and repair the inevitable damage that these police will incur will almost certainly not be Republican. Even the dimmest of dim bulbs is going to be able to draw a line between Trump's tariffs and the economic fallout they are going to cause.

Comment Re:Another solution. (Score 1) 196

You can keep X applications alive when the link goes down, although, obviously you can't see what they are doing. I think that the tradeoff is better than losing access to all of your desktop when the network goes down. I tend to move my state local, meaning that I have what I need locally if something goes awry. I can usually get meaningful stuff done without any network access at all. However, if what you want is to have an always ready desktop that you can connect to from anywhere then RDP is the solution. I have to use Windows every once in a while, and everything about using it is uncomfortable to me, but RDP is very nice. I actually get why you might set up your work flow in that manner.

RDP is actually a reaction to VNC, and it fixes many of VNC's problems. For emergency graphical remote control of a computer VNC is adequate, but it is definitely not a replacement for RDP.

Comment Re:Another solution. (Score 1) 196

You should take a look to see if X over ssh does what you would like. Although if you really want the the entire remote desktop running on your local multi-monitor system then maybe not. if I am sitting at a local workstation with multiple monitors and a nice setup I usually want my environment on that box (an easy thing to do with Linux) and then I run most of my applications locally. If I need a specific application (or set of applications) from another machine I use X Windows to display those applications on my local desktop. They run on the home machine, but the display is on the machine where I am working. This sort of thing has run surprisingly well for decades. Generally speaking I don't bother installing an X Server on the machine where the applications actually run, but that's because I am too cheap to have two sets of nice displays.

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