And my laziness in not going back and reading the original acquisition story, but why would Qualcomm want to buy arduino? Shouldn't they just concentrate on building out the Snapdragon ecosystem?

I have an eight year old grandson who doesn't seem interested in reading books on his own. The adults around him are voracious readers, but he just wants to get his information from videos. The problem I see with that is that it doesn't help him learn language. You don't see how a proper sentence is structured or a logical argument is laid out in a video because you don't see the words. For now all we can do is continue to buy him books, encourage him to read and write more, and explain how doing so will give him an advantage over others in the future. 50 years on I still believe that the most important class I ever took was my high school rhetoric course. The weekly 500 word essays we had to write improved my writing immeasurably. Can you imagine how near impossible it would be for modern students to tackle a course like that?

Translation: We assumed this would be easy, it's not, and this is the excuse we came up with to justify all the investor money we have burned.

Explains a lot.

Deja Vu all over again

The hardware isn't obsolete, Microsoft just decided that it was the easiest way to end backwards compatibility. Isn't it strange that an emulated TPM is good enough for a cloud VM but not for a personal desktop? I wonder if we will see this again if TPM 2.0 breaks and newer hardware is once again "required"

Let them waste their time. First, anyone who has worked in the mainframe/batch world knows that you are probably talking about dozens if not hundreds of programs. The most likely scenario will be to tackle the simplest ones and call it a win.

Which begs the question, what did we do to piss off the greater universe?

Please re-read the subject line. And here is an account of him before the house un-american committee accusing people who didn't agree with him as being communists to shut them up. Yup, same crap from the 40-50's.

The world is going bland. Companies no longer seek competitive advantage by offering anything unique, but instead settle for âoealigning to industry standardsâ which is safe and mediocre. Mao suits for all.

Looks like many of the commenters couldn't be bothered to read the whole summary. This is just voice to text transcription using an AI trained specifically for the medical field. It is done only with consent. It is not generative. Personally I prefer having my practitioner give me their full attention rather then doing data entry.

Calling them collectibles is a smoke screen to make you think that they are meant for the same people who buy typical commemorative dross. The new Trump coins are strictly a vehicle for legal anonymous bribery/blackmail by well healed individuals and countries. "Mr President, we hope that you can help us. We would prefer to hold on to the $5 million in meme coins we just purchased from you instead of dumping them and sinking their value."

The current push to eliminate federal control in favor of state control will force large national companies to meet 50 different sets of regulations. Currently the insurance industry works this way and that is why you see the "not available in all states" disclaimer in their ads. Expect deregulation to raise the cost of doing business in general and make some products less universally available as states step in with their own rules.

Stating the obvious that Distowatch is a wonderful resource when you have the itch to tryout a different OS. Dowloading a VM or iso image and firing it up in Virtualbox is pretty brain dead simple and a lot of fun. Makes it easy to look at what some of the alternatives are out there without having to abandon what you are familiar with. Especially if the alternative is kinda out there (NixOS anyone?)