Actually it's 3200 and that's not including all the staff disappearing with the sale of some major studios. Basically this is an evisceration and it is clear that the XBox the console is fucked, and what remains will focus on casual and lame content - more Minecraft, more Candy Crush and similar slop.

Github's parent just laid off most of the Xbox division. As bad as it is to drop physical media, it doesn't look like Microsoft is going to last much longer either in that regard.

The fact they're not doing it everywhere indicates they're doing it in Europe through gritted teeth. EU already watered down the legislation so Apple & other phone makers could use "waterproof" as a loophole around the requirement, but for devices that can't like the Switch they're going to do it begrudgingly.

A drone carrying a condom full of epoxy or paint could teabag the camera.

The counter argument, is if they've gone to these efforts to develop chips so thermally & energy efficient for their workload they can run in space then why bother launching them into space in the first place?

... it's just another pack of lies like everything else Musk hypes up.

Anyone not already on Azure / AWS / Google sure as fuck isn't going to use Meta. And with Europeans looking to use sovereign cloud providers, and likely the same happening elsewhere there might be a move away from US providers entirely.

This is also WSL. The container runs against WSL except the command line tool also sets up the cgroups, fs, network at the same time. At present if you want to run a container in WSL you need a shim Linux image like docker-desktop, or install docker daemon / systemd on Ubuntu running under WSL to do this set up.

VirtualBox is a type 2 hypervisor. It incurs significantly larger overheads than running a container against a host's kernel where the processes in the container have very minimal overhead - some cgroup, fs & network overlays but otherwise they're running natively. In addition if I want to run multiple containers as a cluster and setting up all that would be a massive pain in the ass with a VM. Or if I want to build new containers or derive them from existing containers.

That's basically why docker & containerization are so popular for cloud development, CICD and so on. Microsoft presumably recognize its a legitimate use case to be able to launch a container directly rather than through a shim Linux (e.g. "docker-desktop") running under WSL.

I use WSL all of the time for AWS development and it works excellently. I'm able to run native Windows editors and various tools and software while still having a Linux command prompt (and graphical tools via WSLg) for development purposes. I use kubernetes, minikube, docker extensively. I develop containers for CICD and for deployment all from a single environment.

As for Microsoft's intentions, I would suggest it's because the reality is they've lost the war. Most of open source tools and cloud development is Linux based so instead of fighting it they're facilitating it while still providing a desktop that allows people to do Windows-y things at the same time.

People don't buy firesticks to use them as Amazon intended. They buy them because they make convenient devices for "dodgybox" services - streaming pay content etc. So Amazon are right to say they enable piracy. On the flip side, if they shut that door, then who in their right minds would even want to buy the things? I bet a very substantial % of sales of them are for nefarious purposes and if Amazon prevent it then they'll be sitting on a lot of unsold inventory.

It's why I mentioned IBAN and SEPA above. I can pay anybody else in SEPA spanning 41 countries and it doesn't cost a penny unless there is a currency exchange involved. So I could be a German working in Ireland and I pay my landlord €1200 in rent from my German account and it costs me €1200 and they receive €1200. It's usually instantaneous although sometimes it takes a day to clear.

All of the utility companies support direct debit where you give them your IBAN and they deduct the money automatically each month. Some of them offer a small discount for direct debit which means you pay less than if you manually paid with a credit card.

A few countries in Europe still technically support cheques but most have gotten rid of them entirely. Even where they still exist it's nearly theoretical since banks etc don't issue cheque books or provide cheque services. Since every EU / UK bank has an IBAN and most of Europe is under SEPA (for cross border payments) it is easy and quick to pay somebody electronically.

US vehicles imported to the EU still have to comply with regulations. The easiest way is type approval. But most US cars don't have type approval that so they need individual approval with is reams of paperwork, work to change light clusters & software, speedometer, emissions and a vehicle inspection. The inspection tests the car against EU regs. For cars made since 2024 that includes GSR2 (general safety regulations), which virtually no US car would pass. Then it has to be locally registered and that might incur another country specific inspection, & more taxes. Even if it DOES pass all this, the expense and effort is so prohibitive nobody would bother unless it was a classic vehicle.

This is why Cybertrucks are defacto banned in Europe because by design they're unsafe & uncompliant and cannot be brought into compliance. A few people tried but it didn't go well for them.

By hood I also mean the bumper, grille, all of the front.