Price drop put the 7900x at bargain bin prices and I bought that instead.

"Kumbaya my lord "

• South park season 8 episode 9

I mean a few of us are still … Android, Chromecast (Android TV), Google One, Google Suite, Google Mesh, Nest (the few products that remain).

Google is collapsing because we are not the customer they serve (anymore). We are the product.

They have spoiled all the good will their brand has which means they are vulnerable to competition.

There is something about the Palm Pre or Jolla Sailfish OS that was so endearing back then. Devices that support it just don’t exist.

I gotta be honest, I love his deadpan dry ass thumbnails.

It’s usenet.

https://blog.harveydelaney.com/configuring-your-usenet-provider-and-indexer-with-sonarr-radarr/

Don’t forget about newsgroups (⌐■_■)

This. It used to be the dream because we believed in what technofuturism had to offer. We believed in instant access to knowledge and we thought we could all make it cheap enough that it would be an uplift across humanity.

We came up with so many cool things in the process. Little did we know we were simply building the foundations of our dystopian cyberpunk corpo future.

“We just wanted ice cream cones and fast cars” (South park).

Abso lutely

I don’t know what to think about the rushed inclusion of Copilot. It’s so very very flawed.

The only thing I can think of is that users are training it by using it and therefore Microsoft is getting free labor from you (as well as search/advertising revenue through their lock screens, dynamic as based backgrounds, live tiles, etc).

I think we’re the product here guys.

Correct

I really hate having the taskbar permanently affixed to the bottom of my screen. I’ve had it on the left side for decades now. They are really throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Someone at Microsoft “Customization is the enemy of progress!”

Jeff Geerling did a whole video about you can just use a professional display. It has the option to install a raspberry pi because it’s meant to be a display for a store window. This would be a good alternative but $$$.

https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays/m551

Note: the reason TVs are cheap now is because they collect data about you. Your data is subsidizing the cost. So if that’s the case how much money do they make off you that getting a non smart display costs 4k?

I 'member

Probably not but you can buy digital signage. You will pay upwards of $4k potentially based on your needs.

Same as it ever was.

Big companies with no vision of the future are often ripe for disruptive tech to harvest. We’ll see what happens. The apple “visio pro”" is not the future of the company.

I never thought of hashicorps products as a replacement for VMware but more of an add on to it.

I think this is very interesting. I’ve been investigating the solutions and found that a lot of other platforms like scale hci, virtuozzo, and oracle VM are all based on the oVirt/Openstack platforms but have been customized.

Openshift and Suse Harvester both have a very similar Kubernetes first approach which I think is interesting. Harvester seems to rely on KubeVirt to deploy “legacy workloads” (probably windows).

The reason I mention openshift though is because I’ve been paying attention to Wendell, level1techs, and the level1 forums and Wendell keeps hinting that Redhat/IBM openshift + intel is being used as a VDI platform featuring Intel flexGPUs for a secret customer (I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a government facility like the national laboratory near Knoxville). I’m just trying to envision how that deployment looks.