...with illegal weed, corporate healthcare, rampant guns, and fireworks. Get yer logic loving science shit outta here. Yeehaw cowboy!

I wouldn't go to the USA even if I had a funeral to attend.

I can't wait for the style warz to begin.

I love new tech and services, but watching crypto tank and seeing these prediction markets renege on bets - it is truly a beautiful thing when greedy people get their fair share of shit.

"Balor Games is built for inventors and backed by believers." I'm not a rich investor, or a theist.

Which makes Xbox but a landlord.

GamePass breaks the feedback loop between player and developers and makes Xbox gamers a 'renter' class.

Yeah, so, on Linux you can place as many tool/task/menubars as you want, wherever you want, shaped however you'd like, with unique buttons and info on each. Meanwhile Microsoft is 'experimenting' with UI like its Xerox in 1970s, yikes.

If you know how to code and use AI as a tool, then this statement becomes the real sore point in modern development: "today's programs are complex and call upon numerous frameworks and resources"

Q: "How do you prevent the CEO from cutting corners on safety until the inevitable disaster?" A: Get creative, put a Methane plant [competitor] team in charge of Nuclear plant safety. Or put a multiple university teams in charge of safety. The main problem here, as we all know, is money. Find ways to take money out of the equation and we may get a chance.

Keep extrapolating into the future. Who has left Windows, who remains? What can we sell to those that remain?

I am almost certain that Microsoft is trying to offload their "powerusers" to other [Linux] environments, leaving basic users in a tangle of tracking and subscription services, on an operating system that is more of a data tracking platform than a typical OS. If Microsoft pushes the technical users off the platform, then they will have an even greater 'carte blanche' over adding new things that the technical users hate: Cortona, Copilot, OneDrive, Subscription pop ups, Malware protection, etc. After reducing the technical userbase I think one of the goals will be to get the remaining users to pay for some kind of "Windows Plus" subscription that 'manages' their system. Just more MRR.

"I don't miss my: Local, roaming, wallet combing, OneDrive hocking, software blocking, Cortona shilling, privacy killing, Edge sucking, update chucking, system scanning, subscription selling, telemetry machine."

These are the "Big Bang Theory" of gifts. Ballzonga.

'TradFi' may be he best part for me. Almost all the "Crypto" dudes are somehow drawn to Greek statue PFPs like moths to a flame and they espouse 'Trad' social policies. They want all the money, and also women in the kitchen - go figure.