Honestly, this does explain why vendors like HP seem to have every possible combo of device available in their business class laptops as Intel CPU options, but it’s sometimes like pulling teeth to get equivalent AMD options.
It’s sometimes a PITA if a client specifically wants an AMD machine for some reason.
If a school provides a device to a student to take home there’s two possible outcomes.
They provide a managed device, and with any management tool, there’s a way to invade privacy, intended or not.
They provide an unmanaged device and get sued by parents for letting their"innocent snowflake" access unwanted content.
In both instances there’s something to legitimately complain about, but I still say the first option is the better one. The problem comes with oversight and auditing on the use of those management tools.
Not to mention that even with the second option of unmanaged devices, invasion of privacy can still occur if students are stupid enough to use the school provided accounts (Google, 365,etc)
Yarrrrrr indeed
Companies see that as a mistake. They want you on a subscription for life that they can arbitrarily change at any time.
Profits not increasing enough for this quarter? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads.
Profits increased amazingly this quarter? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads.
Profits down? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads, and start adding extra paywalls to some content
They want you to own nothing. Oh you unsubscribed? Sorry even the content you paid extra to unlock was only available while your subscription continued, you will need to start your subscription again and then pay to unlock the content again.
A show isn’t popular enough? Better write it off, pull it from all distribution so you can claim it as a tax write off
They make a bunch of the other chips that go into computer devices, and from what I understand it’s binary blob or nothing for a lot of it?
Process sugar (diabeetus)
Games need to live closer to the bleeding edge than a lot of other software.
Also, for wine/proton, and the other customisations built into the deck, it makes sense to pick a starting point that is more built for customisation. By that I mean there was probably less things they needed to add or remove at the start.
As mentioned, it’s also likely there was personal bias internally. But even that can be a valid reason as they need to be familiar/comfortable with the starting distro.
Not saying that Debian cannot do it, but doing it this way probably made valve’s employees lives easier.
Microsoft will release a GPO or MEM setting that works 20 percent of the time to turn off the constant AI data mining, only available to enterprise SKUs.
CHANGE HIM!
FEED HIM!
SWADDLE HIM!
CHANGE HIM AGAIN!
AND AGAIN!
HOW DOES SUCH A SMALL BEING MAKE SO MUCH POOP?!
I’ve only had the time to watch one episode so far. But it definitely felt like a good show adaptation. Episode one felt like a classic fallout opening.
It’s a whatever question you ask engine. You can ask for the information directly and/or ask for sources to back it up.
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Massive quarterly profits, uhh
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Massive quarterly profits
Say it again, y’all
War, huh (good God)
What is it good for?
Massive quarterly profits, listen to me, oh
If they are complaining that means it’s working
No idea which customers they are specifically, my comment was based on this article, which is basically acting as a summary of some of the Broadcom investors day presentations: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/broadcom_strategy_vmware_customer_impact/
It’s not so much that they don’t want the rest of the customers to stay with VMware, its more so a disregard for them moving forward.
It’s simple. Either you are one of the few enterprise customers they want to keep (of which there are only a handful), or you need to have started a transition away from VMware the moment the purchase was announced.
Which completely sucks for the industry.
Red pill. I have so many new ideas on how to ruin my life!
Who wants to bet one of the arguments he wanted to use was "Twitter doesn’t exist anymore, I run a platform called X, therefore well don’t need to honour any Twitter contracts "
Sadly with all this evil crap now days, they’ll bring it back in a few weeks or months, rename it to the "won’t somebody think of the children API"with a massive ad campaign saying anyone or any website not using the API are r*ping kids…
Make sure you get a reputable VPN to avoid issues with any “questionably acquired” content.