I'd more say:

"Don't Be Evil" - Google 30 years ago

"Make Money" - Google now.

It's not evil for evil's sake, it's evil for money's sake. If they could make more money by not being evil they would.

Do you genuinely believe the hit to hardware sales will be more than a rounding error?

They sell 10M a year (as of 2023, can't find an exact number for 2024). Do you think they sell 100k that would not buy it due to no AOSP support? I would guess 10k would be a stretch.

Yes, for white people in the USA and some of europe.

Because they aren't trying to solve the problem of "replace every driver in every city in every circumstance".

This is like people saying no one should buy EVs because you can't go on a 2000km drive with only a 5 minute stop or two for fuel, or you can't tow the 3 tonne caravan you use once every 18 months.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

How many humans have you seen do that? (likely a tonne)
It's easy to see a waymo on the road and notice it.

Also, one anecdote doesn't override large aggregate data, it forms one single data point.

I once saw a magpie that only swooped men. Does that mean I doubt that magpies swoop women?

Fixed that for you

Like all of these schemes, it's about money laundering done in plain sight.

They didn't consider them "people".

I haven't laughed at a your mom joke in a while, this one was just silly enough!

Note: I'm not saying whether any of this tech is good nor bad, just explaining what it is.

#1, the default RDP client still comes with windows, doesn't come from the microsoft store, and isn't discontinued/blocked.

The "special RDP thing" did more than RDP, which is why it's needed.

Azure virtual desktop, windows 365 (ick naming), and microsoft dev box are all azure technologies that give you a "virtual desktop experience" with automated management of backend azure VMs, session allocation, image selection, permissions setting, etc.

It's an "as a service" model for virtual desktops that are suited for 1 of 3 primary use cases, and the app handles a lot of the bits and pieces around this in a way that a pure RDP client doesn't.

https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omni...

okay

I can't believe B2 is still around!

I don't consider not realising my ideal ROI to be waste any more than if it was cloudy causing the same result.

I phrased that to avoid a "well actually ...." reply as others had done.

I should have phrased it slightly differently, perhaps "there is no waste. Some might complain about not reaching their planned ROI, but that's not waste IMO."

I think the issue this poster and a few others have is the wording of "waste".

If a coal plant is producing excess which is burned up there is literal physical and environmental waste.

If I can't send unconsumed output from my panels into the grid there is no "waste" apart from my ROI on installing the panels.