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!It’s really fun when they start arguing and blowing each others minds.

And I bet they’d introduce the kitty to the power of sudo pretty quickly… though giving the new murder hobo the power of sudo seems less wise than teaching Microsoft support peeps the power of grep.

I mean, look at that little guy. He’s totally gonna take over the world.

(Fuck it. Can’t be worse than the current assholes)

they make some plugins to help with that.

If your emac is running… you should probably go catch it.

The just added a high res image or whatever rather than scaling it up. Someone probably fixed it in their spare time.

Kde’s mouse growing big is actually useful though.

Ever lose your mouse? Just a wiggle- which is an action I take anyway to find it- and it gets easier to find, for a moment.

Lets me make the mouse tiny.

You know, if some one created an in-terminal Pac-Man game to play during the update, that’d be awesome.

I’m pretty sure that they’re talking about people deploying hundreds of VMs in a single go… In which case, licensing fees start racking up; and certain kinds of linux are very good at that kind of deployment.

once you start walking away from end-user computing; as an example, MS holds only 8% of all web-facing servers, where Unix (including linux,) is 90%. Linux distros specifically, are something like 61%. Nobody has even mentions apple’s macOS server options. Roughly half of professional devs use windows as the daily driver; but that largely has to do with organizations and integration with other MS products (like office.)

IMO, more telling in this conversation is the supercomputers… which are entirely some form of linux. And also, MS’s own Azure, clients mostly use linux. And for good reason kubernettes and docker were designed for linux, and it’s just easier. Also, there’s no per-instance license fees for your VM’s if you’re using linux. there is for microslop.

Ironically, I’m not sure it matters.

people running bots are still a large section of an OS’s market share. Microsoft wouldn’t hesitate to include bots and such like because it inflates the appearance that “everyone just uses it”. which does in fact drive up usage.

People running bots are still people using computers and such.

ostensibly, it’s also for things like collaboration. But I’m willing to bet that at least half the data going across the servers are telemetry and… if we’re being honest, probably corporate espionage.

I guess my point is that there’s very few people that are actually concerned by how quickly a file is deleted

It’s just a weird thing to brag about.

I’m so confused as to who needs to delete files quickly.

Load files? Yes. But deleting them?

If you’re worried about an fbi raid or something, just stick a can of thermite above the disk and blow torch to get it lit; or something.

For everything else there’s just good data security.

there’s a trial service that gets them the premium stuff and that eventually expires and they have to buy tokens.

The goal of the trial is to get them addicted to using it.

they’re still on the free service. When they run out of trial subscription, rough a week or two after they fire everyone… that’s when they have to start buying tokens.

None of the OG Xbox games were digital licenses. They only came on disks.

It was xbox360 that started the digital downloads- they may have ported something to the digital store, but it would still be a digital port (or something with an emulation layer.)

Either way, if you bought the game for an og Xbox, you didn’t buy a digital pass.

because most new games today require downloads in some form anyway. You can’t play a disk without an internet connection the way you could in the past; so it’s without purpose. The disks are license tokens now.

Fuck, the last time I bought a game for the PS, it didn’t even have a proper disk. It had a game key for the PS store.

there were other ways in which that shift was manufactured, too, like early access through downloads; and the fucked up shit of delivering crappy buggy games that they then fix over the next month.

Because prices haven’t gone up enough to maximize profits

Mozilla Thunderbird isn’t in your emails silently judging you (and selling your data)

“I’m gonna need a password.”