Profits have nothing to do with Tesla’s stock price, unfortunately.

That was the point I was trying to make ultimately, but apparently failed to articulate it well enough.

Oh no, I’m not washing my ass with soap every time, but I commend you for commitment to the cause.

The problem has been that Intel and Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive strategic execution to ensure that each would be a winner over the course of most of our lifetimes. That’s why “Wintel” became a household term over the late 90s.

Now, if you’re building any sort of hardware, why would you pay developers to write drivers for Linux, a hobbyist operating system that had no money flowing around it? Absolute saints cobbled together drivers for video, audio, modem, and other hardware just to make things barely usable, often with buggy behavior. Without insider knowledge of the hardware and firmware design, nor the sheer manpower to do development, Linux floundered in graphical user environments for a long time.

There were proprietary codecs, browser plugins, winmodems, and all sorts of things tailored to Windows user environments that were difficult or impossible to get working on Linux. Linux experts became surly and inaccessible due to the heavy burden of helping newbies just get the system booted and their VGA settings properly set. And so, Linux remained a hobbyist operating system for a long time. User groups finally got companies like NVIDIA to help write drivers for their hardware, and now, getting to a working Ubuntu desktop is arguably simpler than Windows 11.

IMO the problem remains collaboration, engineering, and gaming. The new Winmodem is AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and BG3. Until the Linux user base grows to a point that it can’t be ignored by the companies developing these products, it’ll remain a very niche OS.

It is illegal in most places. Enforcement is the problem.

Socks and sandals is awesome.

It’s not happening in a vacuum. Elon Musk has made an enemy of Wikipedia.

Random caps

<chef’s kiss>

World is already heading that way. It’s one of the few instances that requires your “real” email address and has deleted political threads.

Hmm, sounds like your freedom of speech was suppressed, at least according to the standard Elon espouses. I wonder why he now feels so strongly about doing the opposite thing from what he wanted before. 🤔

I have had the opposite problem you’ve had with direct observation versus dictation from scientific sources.

It is why I struggle with chemistry concepts. Sure, I can see the reactions, but I cannot see the atomic structure of compounds. It requires trust in something you can’t observe.

I learned that much of what I was taught as a child was either not completely true or entirely false, which led to apathy toward knowledge building. What was the point if so much collective knowledge is falsehood? How can one ever determine what’s truly true or really false? There are, of course, objective truths we’ve established through science, but what about things like the food pyramid, the sugar industry telling us that fat was the problem, or learning that our government does, in fact, spy on us through the telecommunications infrastructure? That last one was once the stuff of tin foil hat conspiracy theory.

Anyway, you sound smarter than me. I’m envious.

It belongs in a museum.

To be fair, Linux has not been especially awesome at suspended/hibernate/resume, historically.

Fuck Reddit. Censoring pieces of fascist conformist shit.

Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it had occurred to me that the US disproportionately spends much, much more on military might than our allies do. Europe pulled a good one on us, ensuring they could lead more carefree lifestyles with first world social safety nets while we take on that heavy burden of being the sentry guard of the entire western world.

However, we made promises of security to Ukraine in return for their nuclear disarmament. It isn’t right that we turn our backs on them now.

Trump is a simpleton. He doesn’t truly understand the long-term butterfly effects of the decisions he’s making.

You guys, NVIDIA’s valuation is not based on consumer GPU sales, lol.

As a white man, it means nothing to me when someone uses my race against me. The historical context of oppression doesn’t accompany the insult. However, there have been times in my life when minorities have excluded me or shunned me for my race, which sucks, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to internet war over it.

Same. I like it, but the directing and editing isn’t very good. The show would be awesome with a different director. Maybe.

Today: reorganize all your files according to this ✨ new✨ system

Tomorrow: forget everything you did yesterday. Your spouse can’t find shit.

50 years later: your kids and grandkids can’t find a fucking thing, wonder what the hell you were thinking

I’m fine with the effort bar being selecting an instance. If someone can’t get beyond that, there’s probably not much they have to say I’d be interested in.