Was it meant to run on an NTSC TV?

Now I’m angry. 🙄

The strategy, from day-1, was to dump low-tier customers and squeeze the big dogs. They knew this wasn’t a viable long-term plan. Broadcom knew they had captive customers in the large enterprise space who would take years to migrate. They want to rape all they can, cash out and kill the product someday. But hey! As long as they can squeeze, they will do so.

I mean, fuck me, Oracle is still in business and that’s the model Broadcom is going for.

I was a happy camper with Hyper-V on server operating systems, was always a PITA on desktop versions though. Wonder if that’s changed. (Doubt.)

It’s a valid business strategy to kick your low-paying customers to the curb and focus on the big spenders. Did the same with my little PC business back in the day. The small fry cost shitloads to support and are generally more bitchy.

But HOLY shit did Broadcom kick 'em down. I’ve never seen such an in-your-face business move to squeeze the cash cow as hard as possible, tank the company, grab the money and run.

People can say, and have been from day-1, “I’ll never use their shit again!” That’s fine with Broadcom, it’s literally their plan.

Another vote for Hyper-V.

Haven’t met many nonagenarians? Yeah, they’re rare enough, but I’ve met guys like him. You might be shocked at the 80s folks I meet at work everyday. I am.

So are we suddenly pretending Musk isn’t a de facto government leader who might be manipulated by this? (Terrible wording, but y’all get my gist. I’m going hiking now.)

That’s a 5-minute workaround in the server config. Hate it when idiots skip that. I’m no dev, but I’ve done it many times.

And so much of it is weird. That’s a damned nice place as far as I can see. Hell, I own my own home and it’s nowhere near so new and clean.

Why isn’t this a thing for me? Because I skipped MS account creation? So many Win11 issues I read about on here and I get almost none with my vanilla ISO install.

Never thought of all that, assumed we would indeed smell like cooking pork.

I barfed the coffee grounds in the hospital and they shit bricks. Thought that was only “fresh blood in the stomach” kinda thing?

I’m happy getting older, for now, and that ain’t gonna last. The aches, pains, other weirdness doesn’t bother me so much, but the damned reading glasses give me fits.

Worn glasses since I was five. Now I have to either carry a pair along with wearing contacts, or take regular glasses off to read.

Working outside has noticeably improved my close vision though!

Plex user from way back. Gave them up, forgot why, but lemmy woke me up. Plex is charging for what exactly? And why would I continue when Jellyfin is every bit as easy and free? I feel like I’m missing something.

(And yes, I got the implied /s. Most of lemmy is very literal, autistic even, missed it.)

Capitalism is the gold standard in economic systems, but we’re living the end game where so much money has funneled up that the rich own us and our legislatures. Not sure how that trap can be avoided. How do we propose to tax the snot out of the very people and institutions that own our collective ass and write the tax laws?

This is the most interesting thing I’ve seen on the subject of motivation, and one of the most interesting videos I’ve ever watched. 10 minutes. Do it y’all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

It explains so much of why I happy or unhappy at jobs, even if being paid far more for less work. Making more money does not equate to satisfaction or better productivity. It explains why we work for free, the very subject at hand. There’s much I’m unhappy about working at Lowe’s, quite the pay cut from my IT career and it’s physically beating my old ass, but I have the 3 things he talks about in the video, and it turns out, those things are gold.

Through hard work at a menial job she is still able to put her daughter through college? And this is a hellscape?

I have a book you’ll enjoy.

Beat me to it. I was imagining the horror involved in wiring or plumbing such a space. Don’t know much about HVAC, but there would be weird hot and cold spots in an oddly shaped structure.

Thought the same, but you’re right, putting both lips together makes a plosive.