Probably because people are stupid and inflexible. Well. Looks like Broadcom knows the idiots they are exploiting very well.

And yet, you could have, at really small costs, made sure all your infrastructure also runs on Proxmox. May even have saved you money in the process because things would have done cleaner and that always pays off. An ounce of preparation ...

Exactly. A small bit of foresight and preparation saves you a mountain of effort and cost later.

It's no surprise that most Slashdotters have lost their sense of wonder, as they've forgotten what it was like to be children.

Despite DST existing, I clearly remember waiting for the bus in the dark for part of the year.

DST doesn't do what it's supposed to do, and it kills people. It's weird to celebrate that.

To be fair, most people working as Windows sysadmins would not have that job if they were smart and capable.

Indeed. Obviously MS does not want that question asked because the answer to it is pretty obvious: Windows adds cost and problems.

Funny how that goes, isn't it? The thing is propaganda is a lie. It targets emotions (here the feeling of being unsafe) and tries to amplify them and then bind them to something the propaganda-maker sells. Works the same for tooth-paste, cameras or Fascism: The aim is to bypass the rational assessment of things. And, sadly, it works on a _lot_ of people because generally speaking people cannot fact-check for shit in the first place and this emotional approach bypasses what small skills they may have in that area nicely. It also means that anybody using this approach is not a good person because things built on lies never work out.

Nope. What a disingenuous manipulation attempt to make this an emotional question. I have no feelings towards LLMs, but I can recognize a bad tool when I see one. There are tons of those out there, but usually they do not get pushed this hard and usually there are not so many stupid people that get on board with the hype. Hence this thing is dangerous.

Blender is not a highly experimental tool with mostly unknown characteristics. That is where the "not very smart" part comes in.

Indeed. If you install this monstrosity, you may not even be able to do a clean de-install.

You just directly contradicted yourself there ...

These projects are not very visible, but they are right there in the rather large hole we have in known Physics. Anything getting us a bit more is very welcome.

I guarantee you that they gave themselves the right to review your input for any purpose and inform law enforcement if they feel the need. I haven't read the agreement, but I'd still bet money.

You're very good at ignoring things, like the rest of the story.