Fair enough. I've definitely done an A/B setup manually for significant upgrades, and it has saved me a lot of headaches. I don't see anything that indicates whether root would be available out of the box; that is a wait and see. I would expect the display system to be Wayland, so nothing magical there.

Access to both Flatpak and Snap would leave a wide selection of OSS available. I'm not a fan of either in their current form, I've run into too many issues with both - mostly due to assumptions made by the packager about permissions or environment. I use KDE as my primary DE, but I still prefer a proper package manager over their Discover store.

What I don't like, and it is part of the reason I left Microsoft behind, is the lack of control over my system. I imagine that I am not part of the target audience for this, though, as my "daily drive" is an off-road adventure.

So KDE wants to get in on the walled garden money that Apple and Google are already dominating. I have enough problems with Flatpaks not running properly on distro where I can go in and patch the issues that this is a complete non-starter for me.

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.

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.

The internet is more than just the web, and this is just a bizarre proposal. If you think bandwidth caps are bad, just wait until you can get charged per-connection fees.

I would classify neither HPE or Juniper's networking gear as "expensive buggy crap." Both of them produce fantastic equipment and have for decades.

Agreed completely.

Still with you.

Err... what? There's no "for free" involved, that's where the whole "earn income to support your life" bit comes in.

By all means, don't make your job your life--there are certainly better things out there. But being asked by your employer to give a fuck and put some effort in is certainly not a bridge too far.

My wife and I figured that out during covid. We were both "essential" employees and by the time we took care of work and our two children, we had no time for anything else. Our dogs were living shitty lives and it killed us to do it but we rehomed them. I was upset about it but after it was done, I was even more upset that we hadn't done it sooner... because we let them live those shitty lives while we kept on keeping on trying to figure things out.

This is just plain incorrect.

The freaking summary points out that "Tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon plan to spend $80 billion, $85 billion, and $100 billion respectively this year on AI infrastructure." That's a quarter trillion dollars worth of infrastructure (that has not a thing to do with bitcoin or EVs) which is going to require a shit ton of power.

On a more personal and anecdotal note, I work for a company that serves the power industry and one of our customers (a gas turbine manufacturer) will be increasing their capacity by more than 3x over the next five years--this is not speculative, they have already taken the orders, their capacity is booked through the end of the decade, and the reason is the datacenter boom. Most of our other customers are dealing with similar growth and their stated reasoning is the same.

If that is the case, then it can best be summarized as "Nice code you've got there. Would be a shame if someone injected a trojan. For a suitable 'donation' we can make sure that doesn't happen. We're not responsible for anything that happens if you don't pay your dues."

It's just another walled garden that developers will have to pay to enter, and consumers will have to pay to use. (And I have full confidence that Google will find a way to make both ends pay.)

It certainly doesn't help that the first four or five pages of results are completely irrelevant "AI" generated trash anyway, so search is almost not worth the effort.

Almost certainly.

This is far less likely, and in fact whoever they interconnect with probably ends up paying higher rates than they do today.

They won't hold or harass you. They'll simply say "Entry denied. Your flight home is at 2:00. Have a nice day." and your expensive vacation or business trip is now ended. Congratulations on the self-own.

They don't care. It's that simple; their strategy is all about maximizing short term profits and there is no interest in "next generations" or any other kind of market growth.

This is... utterly untrue.

Reperforming the song is not going to change the end date of the copyright of the work by a single day. The copyright term was fixed when it was created (if a corporate work) or when the author dies (typically 70 years from that date) for anything for the last half century or so.

As an example: Bohemian Rhapsody was written by Freddie Mercury who died in 1991. The copyright is going to expire in 2061 and no amount of re-recording will change that.