A company spends a ton of money on various systems. Configuring them is a lifetime of work. You now have a new issue and IT/Devops tells you you need yet another tool that costs even more. Comes AI and tells you how to leverage your current toolset to do what you need. To me that is a huge win and destroyer of tool sprawl

An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. Thatâ(TM)s what SEP means. Somebody Elseâ(TM)s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot.

        The Somebody Else's Problem field... relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Elseâ(TM)s Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there.

2026 - The year of the Linux Desktop

I shifted to anxiety and job insecurity after the dot-com bubble burst in 2k

This is not something new

I have a feeling that the next Slashdot story will be about the amount of personal information and private pictures being recovered from secondhand laptops whose owners thought the HD was wiped.

Actually when virtue signaling demanded that we be concerned about the climate everyone flocked to Tesla. Currently virtue signaling calls for hating everything trump and associated with him so people are dumping Tesla.

If your argument is that people are afraid of violent leftists than that would be true also

Interesting enough Chinese cars (even personal vehicles) are banned on Israeli Army bases due to spyware fears

I wonder if there is any correlation between EV adoption and the Linux Desktop usage ?

At 7.5% this could be our year !

"If you are not part of the solution, there is aot of money to be made prolonging the problem"

When people ask me about working in tech I tell them it's great but you need to reinvent yourself every few years. So I have gone from
Sun Solaris Admin
Linux sysadmin
Monitoring and Alerting specialist
Devops engineer
Cloud Ops Security
Cloud Architect

So had I stayed in my chosen profession of Solaris Sysadmin (oh to be the BOFH again !!) I probably would be feeling like these people are feeling.

Everyone can see who was swimming naked.
In years of cheap interest rates everyone was looking for a better return for their cash. Hence anyone could open a VC and get funded and play the M&A game. These days with interest rates up you have to have a solid track record in order to attract cash.

No. That's his cousin. You mean Ross Geller

Forget turning on their human masters, let me know when the first robot gets a DUI

But if the Bluetooth lady goes through I am done.