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Comment Re:Why assume "unknown" is Linux? (Score 4, Interesting) 88

I know we're a smaller chunk of the pie, but I do actively run FreeBSD on a number of desktops, workstations, and laptops here at home, of both the x86/AMD64 and ARM/Aarch64 variety. Because FreeBSD lives in the world that Linux did a while back, a fuckton of us fake our user agents because shit ass web devs STILL put hard checks into their code that says "your OS isn't supported on our site, therefor you cannot browse it" even though the OS makes fuck all difference inside of a web browser.

Comment No Shit (Score 1) 32

File this under the "NO SHIT" department.

Do you think the US Military is buying random shit on Amazon? Of course they are! It may even be at the individual person level, but its totally still a thing.

Alibaba is Chinese Amazon. Yes, they buy products.

Oh, okay, what about the OTHER stuff Alibaba does?

Yes, they're also Chinese AWS. Do you think the military uses cloud computers? Of fucking course they do.

Comment Buggy (Score 5, Insightful) 98

*NOBODY* asked for this. This is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what people use Notepad for. And because of these transitions, they've turned Notepad into a buggy piece of shit. Each update, more and more basic features have become unusable. They even broke basic ability to type into it in certain circumstances, ya'know, literally its most basic core feature!? Oh, right, "AI" should be typing for you now I guess!? UGH!

Comment CORRECTION (Score 1) 35

"Linux" appears ZERO times in the specification.

This is a specification for UNIX. Linux copied from UNIX but is not UNIX. If you'd like to try out a UNIX variant however, the BSDs such as FreeBSD are direct descendants of AT&T Research UNIX.

INB4 "But Linux is more popular" - yes, yes it is, and it is because of EXACTLY things like this, which attribute things to Linux which are NOT Linux and don't mention Linux at all.

Comment Re:I would never AirBNB and don't understand why (Score 2) 46

That's where Sonder was different. It wasn't individuals renting things out. Sonder owned properties that were closer to full apartment buildings and rented out the units much more similarly to as if it were just a hotel.

I stayed in one in San Diego a few years back, not even knowing it was some sort of "AirBNB competitor", I was just "booking a hotel" and it looked neat and price was decent. In the end, the room was great, right in the part of town I wanted to be in, and had plenty of room and a full kitchen. It felt like a mini apartment.

Comment Very few things are cheaper in the "cloud" (Score 2) 82

There are very VERY few things that are cheaper in the cloud. You're just trading one expense for another, not eliminating it.

To date, the most cost-effective thing in the cloud is still DNS hosting, because who the hell wants to run thousands of DNS hosts globally distributed, with all the maintenance that comes with it?

But for compute, or storage, or bandwidth: on-prem will always win in cost.

Comment full-size electric pickup (Score 5, Insightful) 181

"full-size electric pickup"

That's your problem. And you even admit it.

"the arrival of a cheaper midsize EV truck undermine the business case"

MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT A "FULL-SIZED" FUCKING TRUCK. THEY'RE TOO GODDAMN BIG.

A friend of mine has one, and its been nice for a few very VERY niche things we've needed to haul, otherwise, the thing is a goddamn massive tank that is far too large to easily park in any tight parking lot. It is a total pain in the ass getting around town in the thing.

Back in my day, the F-150 was a small to mid-sized truck, not an overwhelming behemoth. Release a small sized and mid sized electric pickup. That's it. That's the business plan. YOU LITERALLY just admitted it. So just do it yourself !?

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