A company will become strapped for cash, or some new CEO will take over, or the company is bought out. And suddenly the thing that was bought and paid for in perpetuity gets gimped, or relabeled "classic" & discontinued, or the company finds some other way to show "gratitude" to the people who kept them afloat by diminishing or cutting off service.

Basically I wouldn't trust any product to be lifetime unless the entirety of the software can be downloaded with its own license key and continues to work regardless of what happens to the company.

These are the Surface Pro models. The downmarket model is the Surface Go. As for the Neo, it's a tight package but there is absolutely nothing special about it's specs which are actually pretty terrible. It's designed as a browsing device - the sort of thing a Chromebook or Surface Go might also be thought of.

The Surface Pro can run Linux but it requires a custom kernel to deal with its multitouch screen, tablet mode, camera & keyboard and is going to be a pain to make function in the way the hardware was designed. Buy something else if running Linux is your intention.

Well that's kind of what they're meant to be doing with their ARM laptops. Unfortunately having something that doesn't run the vast bulk of Windows software except through emulation (and still breaks) seems kind of self-defeating.

I wonder if Sony is getting a bit scared of Valve. Maybe they're even seeing how well their games are selling on the PC and the fact they're selling well scares them even more than if they didn't.

But at the end of the day it's free money. Sell the game exclusive on the console for a year or two and when it's back catalogue port it over to the PC and sell it again.

If it was that incredible, Tesla would be handing out their raw data like candy so everyone could see how amazing their FSD systems were. Except they don't. They hide it from independent evaluation, they hide it from the NTSB, they hide it from the families they've killed. But trust us bro, it's soooooooo safe.

Did I say it had to be like GNOME? No I did not. I said most dists (i.e. mainstream dists) use GNOME. But usability is why they do. Admins maintaining dozens, hundreds of desktops do not want to waste time on bullshit support calls caused by traps and complexity in the desktop software which thinks it should shove every option under the sun in the face of users.

If KDE had proper human interface guidelines that didn't fit on a cereal packet and adopted a UX ethos & direction rather than a kitchen sink mentality then something might change. But it hasn't changed in decades so I won't be holding my breath. But if it were me dropping 1.5 million on the project that's where I'd be demanding the money be spent.

And by "literally everyone", the usage of KDE is lower than GNOME because it is not the default in any mainstream dist with the exception of openSUSE. And if you're so into KDE you should be begging for the UX to improved instead of trying to pretend the way it is now is a virtue. It sucks. It sucks even compared to Windows. Because the KDE devs play the notes without understanding the tune. This has always been the case and makes for a complex desktop that generates support calls for admins who have better things to do.

I would say that maybe if the devs followed the KDE human interface guidelines they might improve, but the KDE human interface guidelines are practically non-existent, about 7 pages that read like somebody's weekend assignment. Spend the millions writing some proper ones, and adopting it. It doesn't require KDE become GNOME, but GNOME has at least made the effort and despite your dislike, it is an slick, unsurprising, simple, forgiving and discoverable desktop.

At one point even Musk realised it. Now it's all move fast and break things. Even if those things have people inside. Because money matters than a few lives.

KDE is still a usability dog's dinner from a UX perspective. It needs to move all the advanced settings out of the day to day experience and ensure that it is forgiving and discoverable. That would pay off big time over the long term. But I'm not holding my breath because I've been saying that for decades and it never happens, so no wonder most dists use GNOME instead.

If data centers need water to cool, then it should be a closed loop. They shouldn't be continuously hooked up to the mains.

Ford was never a prestige badge but it used to be a mass market badge, In the space of a few decades their market share has dropped from 10% to around 3%. In fairness, only one of their car EVs, the Puma-E is a fossil fuel conversion and it has generally garnered good reviews and has some pretty interesting features like a massive boot. But it's still too expensive compared to the competition in the same category.

Kind of ironic that a company that at the turn of the 20th century killed off so many coachbuilder automobile competitors by pioneering machine tools, mass assembly etc. is now finding itself on the wrong side of the equation because it can't keep up with electric tech.

Ford does make other EVs in Europe but even there a couple of their models are just reskinned Volkswagens ID.5s. They have the in-house developed Puma Electric I guess which is generally considered an okay car but nobody really talks about it. And of course the Mach-E which looks cool but is too expensive and getting kind of old. And a few electric vans. That's it.

Just like with other US companies they're watching their market shrink because they're simply not investing in emergent technologies. I'm sure they'll hang on for a bit in some niches but their consumer offerings outside of the Americas look like they are in terminal decline.

Facebook has many employees in the EU. What they try in the US they'll try in Europe if they think they'll get away with it.

A union would allow Facebook workers to push back against company bullshit and back it up with industrial action. And yes unions can be useless and exist to leech off members. But in this case, it is a clear cut example of where a union is needed and it is needed NOW.