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If it turns out he was a shareholder disappointed with his latest dividend, yes I would be sad. That’s my line.

Yes, your advocating for killing the entire board of directors is the right move. Another route would be to kill off all of the large institutional investors like fidelity, JP Morgan etc who put that board in place. But that’s about where the buck stops. Sadly those people are better at being faceless so it’s harder, but it would also work for all public companies (for example Boeing, or John Deere, or all of the other more notably evil companies lately)

I’m sure it helps that he was across two state lines before the search even began

Linux being easy to install was a weird target to begin with. If it were good, framework could easily find popularity. The issue with Linux is less the install than the upkeep and the jank package ecosystem. For every official package it feels like theres a bootleg build uploaded through gitlab ci by user luvgunz6969. Even something as basic as syncthing seems to have 5 different ways to install and run it. Firefox is insecure on Linux. Thunderbird doesn’t have a fucking tray icon. Installing specific drivers breaks secureboot. It’s a fucking minefield.

I assume you mean a desktop without a tpm chip but with a tpm header and from the Intel lines where they didn’t bother to include the soft tpm as part of the design? I had such a PC, roughly the same time frame as yours.

My phone is faster. Less RAM, but faster processor.

7 years is a long time in tech.

Edge is fairly popular, your assessment is without merit there. Id trust it over chrome and the scum at brave but under chromium, Vivaldi, Firefox.

Even if a tpm chip is just a deadbolt on your door, it’s better than nothing and will keep your stuff safe from 99% of attackers. Yes the nsa well get through but they were gonna anyway. Your curious friend or random criminal aren’t gonna get through. It’s a deadbolt. I like having a deadbolt. It won’t keep me actually safe but it will still stop 99% of people. You can let the perfect be the enemy of the good if you’d like, but until my Asus has a titan chip I’m gonna do what I can.

I don’t understand your last comment, Microsoft does provide a full iso and if you use Rufus to burn to a USB drive it works fine bootloader and all. No need to even try to use their hot garbage media creator tool, which sucks.

Clearly people don’t find it that bad

Most people don’t care about the same things you care about. I do, and still find managing windows easier but I agree not everyone will because I also care about things like tpm support and kernel signing. Windows does all these things with no hoops, making it simpler for my use case. I’ve never had a registry entry brick anything.

I’m not super controlling, so I don’t feel an overriding need to remove edge just because it’s there. I used Rufus to bypass tpm and web login support with 2 checkboxes. Life just isn’t that hard.

For someone who doesn’t care at all, windows is significantly easier.

My general experience has been: “Come to Linux”

“But not ubuntu that’s trash”

<Tries arch, run into problem>

“Why the fuck would you use arch, dummy?”

<Switch to fedora, immediately brick computer, eventually fix it but switch to suse>

<Wonder where certain software is>

“If you wanted wide software support why wouldn’t you use arch”

“You can just learn the build tool chain for that software and do it yourself”

Etc Etc

The Linux community is very welcoming until you expect things to work.

Special hardware meaning a TPM chip to encrypt your data? Why would they force you to use 10 year old tech, way too new!

Remember they aren’t forcing you to update, they just are telling you they won’t support your old-ass shit :)

Correct

People don’t read

I mean, I would also prefer it…I don’t want a 10 minute 1 second video driven by a 14 year old YouTube algorithm change explaining which bolt to loosen, but here we are. People don’t read.

No, it didnt

I didn’t realize coal plants were concerned about data centers or AI. TIL.

But in the interest of being slightly less of a dick and responding to what you said even though it’s kinda a non sequitur, companies are only vaguely interested in efficiency. I think it’s more accurate to say that AI is hot for everyone right now so there’s more eyes on it which makes the concept you laid out valid. Where it’s invalid in my experience is that efficiency is just based on “where x executive is paying attention” not an honest attempt to look at return on investment in a rigorous way across the enterprise.

No? What are you talking about?

“probably”

Put up or shut up bud

Wow what a hot take, is this 2012?

Id assume they meant residents of the Jewish state who are on the side of the Jewish states government, not all Jews worldwide…but I’m just giving benefit of the doubt. Similarly I assume people saying Americans chose this or Americans support genocide mean the 51% who do.

And why do you think those improvements happen?

Is it (a) unchecked capitalism or (b) regulations?