Is your friend also your Canadian girlfriend?

Seriously if you're going to make up a story could you ask Chat GTP to make it more believable. This reads like something Ronald Reagan's people wrote in the '80s.

Synthetic or sugared isn't the problem, that shits been around since the 40s.

Also car based society doesn't help either.

No it's not confusing in the slightest. The company pretending to be all in on Linux is only interested in selling you shit on Linux. They don't support Linux. The most popular game on the planet supports literally every platform except for Linux. Worse they bought a popular game (Rocket League) which had native Linux support and then killed that Linux support.

There's nothing confusing about inviting Epic to go eat multiple bags of dicks and they should get no points for vibe coding a shitty barely functioning shop to sell you emulated shit on Linux.

Especially since most of what they sell you will rely on the work provided by that "abhorrent" (Sweeney's words, not mine) company Valve's work they contributed to Proton.

Where's Rocket League on Linux? Remember the game you bought out to get people to use your failing platform for which you instantly killed the Linux client? No one wants your AI vibe coded bullshit website pretending to be a store. Give us the actual god damn games back.

You can't do regime change from the air. At a certain point you're just making the rubble bounce. Trump would have had to occupy the country and that would have meant a draft because we do not have enough troops to occupy a hostile Nation the size of Iran.

Trump and the Republican party lost an election over $4 a gallon gas. I can't even imagine what would happen if he had gone through the invasion and occupation and the necessary draft.

In case you're wondering if I'm pulling that out of my ass go look up the cia's numbers on how many troops would be needed to occupy Iran. It's more than we have in the world. And we don't have the balls to do a genocide like Russia will if they ever take Ukraine so that's not on the table. We can't just murder everybody there as terrible as America is we're not that terrible.

I think the problem is that while it's true that most games support Linux under proton the games most people actually play do not because of weird kernel level anti cheat systems.

It doesn't help Linux adoption if 98% of games are playable but that remaining 2% is what 70% of gamers are playing.

There has been some chatter from epic about making some of their anti cheat tools work under Linux and it would be a big deal if that will happen. Take away gaming and a lot of people would just switch to Linux for the lower memory footprint. Microsoft has a really hard time reducing their memory usage because every department in Microsoft is competing to throw advertisements at us in order to get some revenue because you can't just have useful software that is needed to support the overall product every single team has to be driving revenue 24/7 or they're on the chopping block on the next round of layoffs...

And Microsoft doesn't seem to care if that causes lost users. I have watched large companies piss away billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds of millions in raw profit because they didn't want to continue supporting a piece of software required to keep that money coming in. It's a side effect of how revenue and profit are calculated internally inside large organizations these days.

I don't think it matters that RISC V originated from the US though, as long as there are no licencing fees and no intellectual property claims on it.

Huawei has a track record of coming in and becoming a major force in foreign tech, like enterprise network hardware, cellular, WiFi, and so on. It all depends on the licencing, and the Chinese government is probably keen on it as well because it means the US can't cut them off from such things without completely screwing themselves as well. A kind of mutually assured destruction.

The CPU is ARM, so they are using European tech. I bet Huawei is looking at RISC V options very closely though.

It doesn't matter. It's like their GPUs. They might not be able to match AMD and Nvidia, they might not even be compatible with all the latest AAA games... But they play the stuff that is popular in China very well, and they cost a fraction of what the American ones do.

And you can actually buy them, which these days is a novelty.

Lots of people are already using Chinese tablets and phones. The phones are some of the very best, and some of the cheapest. They have products to suit all and particularly if you just want something for media consumption/kids, the low end stuff is incredible value. Need an SBC but Raspberry Pi is looking very expensive? They have that covered too. Network KVMs that used to cost hundreds of Euros are in the double digits now. They actually want to sell to consumers, not just AI slop factories.

There's a difference between Hollywood accounting and wasting money. In fact they are polar opposites. Hollywood accounting is largely used to *make* money for Hollywood studios.

I'm not sure what the terminology is for the US, but in the UK we have two different standards of proof described thus:

Criminal law - beyond a reasonable doubt
Civil law - on the balance of probabilities

In practice some very questionable criminal convictions have been made on flimsy evidence. For civil law it tends to depend on the mood of the judge on the day, unfortunately, but is in theory whoever can exceed 50% probability will prevail.

Domestic wind turbines are a waste of time. Solar isn't that expensive now. Basic system with 1200W panels for a few hundred Euro, battery does double it if you can't charge directly off it.

There is a good argument that it is cheaper to subsidize domestic solar than to continue using more gas for electricity generation, as we do in the UK.

It's generally good advice not to buy anything with the promise of software updates bringing features you want, but from a legal standpoint all that matters is that Tesla advertised it as a feature, and kept advertising it as a feature.

Tesla also promised that people who paid for it would get their hardware upgraded when the time came, so if they ever do make it work they will be liable for who knows how many hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of free upgrades into 10+ year old vehicles.

It does happen occasionally. Years ago when I was in the office we had one guy run out of time with his lorry parked over the exit to our car park, and nobody could get out. Claimed that the truck wouldn't allow him to move it until his break was over, and I've read that some do in fact have a lock out mechanism like that.

AI publishing will be dead along with it. Nobody wants to read AI slop, and AI slop is a commodity item that you can get from anywhere.

Such clauses only matter if they want to get rid of him. I'm sure the board is calculating the value of keeping him on vs the value of replacing him right now.