I don’t think they care that much. Windows revenue is ~7% , and most of it is probably Windows Server and enterprise/government deals. Source.

Unless SteamOS becomes competitive in the workplace and professional world, it’s just a drop in the ocean, too small to matter.

This looks like a false flag to me. Right out of Hitler’s playbook… Oh, there are a lot of Germans in Sudetenland, I’ll just take it.

They should replace the XPS name with the Longitude. And then the Altitude.

It’s used for PCIE so of course it can.

I don’t think they can. They would need to rethink their company culture, but because the current one makes big numbers go up, they don’t really have to change anything.

I own a Yamaha PSR E403. This series is a lower end class of synthetizer/arranger keyboards targeted towards novice players. Mine also has an identical UI to the one presented here. I wonder if the hack would work on it as well, being a similar model.

My better keyboard is a Yamaha CP88 which is a lot more modern and has updatable firmware. I poked a bit with the update package using binwalk and as far as I could tell it’s not encrypted, and runs some version of QNX. My hacking skills aren’t as good, but I wonder if that one has similar exploits.

But that means JD Vance will be president.

Or just have him go to mars or something. And take Bezos with him. With some luck, they will miss Mars… Or be stuck there.

What’s wrong with this comparison is that most people don’t go where sharks are, while most people interact on a daily basis with stairs and beds. To compare apples with apples, we need a statistic of shark deaths in people that go swimming in the ocean.

In the US, the purpose of incarceration is cheap slave labor, which is why oligarchs like it this way. Can’t have that if inmates have rights and are allowed to have non-slave jobs.

Prison workers in the US are generally exempt from workers’ rights and occupational safety protections, including when seriously injured or killed.[43][39] Often times, inmates that are often overworked through penal labor do not receive any proper education or opportunities of “rehabilitation” to maximize profits off the cheap labor produced.[44] Many incarcerated workers also struggle to purchase basic necessities as prices of goods continue to soar, meanwhile prison wages continue to stay the same.

Easier to install puppet governments than try to integrate more angry people into the population.

I think it would thrive under a non-profit like the Linux foundation. It doesn’t need to make money. It’s a critical piece of our tech infrastructure, just like Linux, openssl and other open source projects. Having it in the hands of an ad company whose interests are against the open internet and open standards is not okay.

What about the accountant who keeps track of the finances and ensures compliance with the laws? He doesn’t produce anything but still needs to be paid. There are a lot of jobs which are essential for the operation of a company, but aren’t producing anything.

Being paid by the hour is fine. What’s not fine is upper management and shareholders hoarding all the profits for themselves while the people below are struggling to pay their bills.

For big contracts between companies, this is actually done, in a way, through source code escrow. Would be nice if this was a thing for consumers as well.

Evil and rich*

How old is this? Why is play music here?

While I’m absolutely for reusing old hardware and am doing it myself, keep in mind that the security landscape has changed. Old hardware might have security vulnerabilities which could be exploited by malware. Running an up to date OS is not enough to keep you secured.

But at least we won’t have gay liberal abortions, right?

That is correct, but at least BMW knows how to make decent cars that won’t trap you in in an emergency.

Onedrive is pretty ok, other than being annoying. A company I worked for was acquired by another company that had their own cloud storage product. After the acquisition, they forced us to migrate from onedrive to their product. It was so bad… Files would constantly corrupt and disappear, the speed was terrible, trying to share files didn’t work half the time, when sharing folders the people you shared with wouldn’t see all the files in the folder. They also limited our storage from 1TB to 25GB making it pretty useless for storing builds of our product or trying to share VMs.

And the worst part is that they also closed our SMB network share to force us to use that piece of shit.

After that experience, I will never complain about Onedrive again.