No.

The scarcity isn’t artificial though. The actual objects are not available in the quantities needed to keep prices level.

The reasoning for that matters not at all.

Someone is buying every single chip that SK Hynix and Nvidia are producing. The fabs they’re using are all running at maximum capacity.

Those chips are going somewhere.

Scarcity applies to the things that actually exist, or not.

There are fewer graphics cards being made for consumers right now than there were a few years ago, and they have less memory on them on average.

It’s not really artificial scarcity, there is actually less consumer hardware available at the moment.

To add to this a bit, if the site is just a single page that will be fine. If your site has a bunch of pages that all need to share the same theme and headers and footers and such it may be worth learning a simple templating system that runs before the site is sent for hosting.

That way if you need to update something in the design or theme you can do it once, rather than on dozens of pages.

Personally I use eleventy for my little site.

https://www.11ty.dev/

I don’t see your argument against teams.

It sounds like:

“It’s all together in one place, how dare they.”

At this point I don’t even bother using the desktop version of outlook, the web app is easier for emails and my calendar is in teams.

You act like cloud services are bad, they aren’t. If they were terrible, people would be switching away from them. They’re adding value beyond their cost and everyone knows it.

Could Microsoft be better at some things? Sure.

But they’re already far better than the alternative, which is a janky ass system of 30 different products from 30 different vendors.

Total number of businesses maybe, but they account for something like two thirds of all employees.

You can’t really say it’s much of a business IT stack if it’s just a single freelancer using a Mac.

They wouldn’t be setting up teams in the first place.

“lots of businesses operate on macOS”

No, they definitely do not. If you go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees, they are running windows on the computers sitting in front of every office drone they have.

Very specific industries or business may, especially those who are stuck on Adobe’s software, but “lots” is extremely far from the truth.

There’s no mass exodus towards Linux in the business user space.

It’s still 99.9% Microsoft Windows.

Lync, not Lynx.

And technically Lync got birthed from the corpse of Office Communicator, not MSN messenger.

I quite literally teach and consult on Teams, and have for 8 years now. I worked with Lync, Skype for Business, and Communicator before that.

People complain about it all the time, and yet… I’ve never had any significant issues with it.

Other than M365 outages, which impact everyone, I’ve never seen it crash. I’ve never had issues not loading. I’ve never had sound or sharing issues that couldn’t be resolved by clicking the dropdown and selecting the correct option.

It can be a bit slow, especially loading file related stuff, but it’s not any worse than a network drive.

Placeholder avatars in different parts of the App? Teams doesn’t even support task assignment, tasks are handled in MS Planner which is an entirely different product that just happens to be visible inside Teams if you want.

Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.

Maybe the people with problems are the ones running 10 year old hardware with a barely supported operating system?

I thought the argument from the right is always that it’s the person not the tool that’s at fault?

It isn’t the same thing, the scale and level of violence are not even close to comparable. That’s why it’s a false equivalence.

Just because two people steal something doesn’t make them the same, if one person stole a chocolate bar and the other one stole a 10 million dollar jewel they are not equal. They’re both thieves, but they aren’t “just the same”

You said “just like Trump”

That is false equivalence.

The things that happened under Biden and Clinton are nowhere near as bad as what’s happening now.

False equivalency is bad.

They are not the same.

And I agree with them, if you go look at my other recent comments I’d actually like to see:

Communism for land ownership, Socialism for necessities, and Capitalism for supplying additional options to necessities, and all luxuries.

Capitalism has many market failures. Long term planning is one of them.

This is really a problem with Shareholders giving the wrong incentives to management via bonuses on short term value gains.

Really Rich people? Millions to tens of millions.

All economic systems lack something, the question really comes down to which one is the least bad and how to drive it properly. Socialism (government ownership) and Communism (public ownership) both suck at producing variety and innovating for example and need to be specifically forced/controlled to do those activities.

Capitalism is not logic challenged, that’s part of the problem, people misunderstanding it.

Capitalism is just a concept, a method of doing things. There’s no reason why we need to allow it to operate freely. We choose what rules it plays by, and how to enforce those rules.

The government already regulates plenty of things so that Capitalism chooses a slightly better direction. The trick we need to pull off is regulating capitalism in a way that is beneficial for society, rather than just specific people which we’re doing a pretty shitty job of right now.

Lots of people have talked about this.

The first problem is that “it’s someone else’s problem” since the market doesn’t change that fast.

The second problem is that there are still rich people who own the robots that can buy things.

The final piece of the puzzle is that Capitalism doesn’t give a shit about individual people unless their existence is maximizing profit somehow. It would happily(I say this knowing capitalism isn’t a person and has no emotion) allow the population of the earth to drop down to 1 million if that optimized profit for shareholders.