Was waiting for one of those whiners to pipe up.

Debian's open-source. Don't like the CoC? Fork it and make your own Incelbian distro.

Microsoft makes promises for marketing reasons only. Promises don't have any bearing on their actual plans or actions.

A life free of this abuse is reserved for those wealthy enough to afford Apple, or smart enough to understand Linux.

I can't see that happening. The Linux ecosystem is too unruly for it to succumb to corporate enshittification. There will always be Debian, Slackware, and other non-corporate distros, and if commercial software becomes too onerous, we'll do what we do now... not use it.

My experience with Fedora, using it for a couple of years, was that it breaks frequently and significantly when updated. Applying updates was always an adventure...what will break this time? The fixes would usually come within a few weeks.

Major updates were a no-go. My system wouldn't even start after one, and it was beyond my technical ability to repair. It became my habit to just wipe the system and reinstall for major updates (which wasn't too bad since I keep all my data on a devoted drive separate from the OS anyway).

Now that I am on Ubuntu, I don't even give updates a second thought. I just click the button whenever it shows there are some, and done. Things just don't break. Though I still do the wipe-and-reinstall for major updates because that feels natural now.

During the Bush depression, J.P. Morgan was selling a product to its customers that it was simultaneously betting against. According to Jamie Dimon, these were "sophisticated" investors who knew the risks.

Can't wait for this to happen with all the real estate and crypto scams which will be foisted on investors retirement accounts.

If it makes you feel any better, whether you're on Windows or Linux, you need to be looking for an alternative to Publisher... it's been deprecated and has an EOL about a year out. You can, of course, continue to run it, but I can't imagine running any MS software that doesn't get security updates anymore, especially one that's an Office component.

Stocks are kind of crazy at this level. You basically can get a credit line (like an LAL) for around half of the stock you hold. For some in the tech field they might have 1-5 million in assets they are treating as retirement. But can borrow from it tax free to write a check for a $2m home. Exactly the sort of shit that messed up the real estate market in the SF Bay Area. The rich don't have the same rules as the working class.

See? There I am again!

(waves)

Hi, psycho! I'm right here. You should think about me some more. Mmmmm. Obsessivey.

It's speculation. AI may become the biggest shift in the market and society in all of human history. Like telephone, internet, smartphone, and tractor all rolled into one massive paradigm shift.

I believe the intent of AI startups is to be in early to capture a slice of a potentially massive market. But I am less confident that the winners will automatically be the early adopters.

There are at least half a dozen different games called "football," none of which are the One True Football(TM). Soccer is a shortening of Association Football (itself named to differentiate it from Rugby Football which was codified earlier), and was, in fact, used as slang shortly after the codification of Assocation Football around 150 years ago.

You can identify the condescending assholes that already know that because they use terms like "handegg" to feign ignorance of this when they demand you stop using a word that's been in use for a century and a half in favor of their preferred terminology.

Not even slightly.
Here's the comment chain again:

  DrMrLordX asked for actual examples where these satellites have improved yields or lowered costs.
The snarky AC answer was "are you living in a different reality than most people?"
And I questioned the point of that reply, when the op had literally just asked for examples.

Ad hominems - implying the question was 'insane', I guess? - are generally the first sign that someone is arguing dishonestly.

How does that even faintly imply I'm asking for evidence myself?

This has always been my point.

Climate change bullshit is sucking all the air out of the room, while fretting over prognostications with error bars off the chart that threaten to - maybe - make the world richest cultures slightly-less-rich in a century is nothing compared to ACTUAL poisons being dumped around the world today.

We need to first stop shitting where we live. I genuinely DGAF about 2 deg C in a century.

I'm white so I will probably just get pepper spray or taser at the most extreme.

But if I had a darker skin tone in the wrong neighborhood with the wrong cop, my life would really be on the line. Illegal choke hold or shot are a pig's favorite.

Various fascist factions will openly fight to control the White House. Actual votes or popularity won't matter. The winner will be the one who is the strongest, the most violent, and the most willing to commit brutal acts.