Your vent was good and justified

No love lost for IBM but I still wouldn’t expect to see casually mentioned alongside Palantir.

Wow I went to fact check that claim and it’s actually no exaggeration. Here is the AP article.

Google and Amazon provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli military under “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021, when Israel first tested out its in-house AI-powered targeting systems. The IDF has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers. Red Hat, an independent IBM subsidiary, also has provided cloud computing technologies to the Israeli military, while Palantir Technologies, a Microsoft partner in U.S. defense contracts, has a “strategic partnership” providing AI systems to help Israel’s war efforts.

Crazy to see Palantir, Google, Microsoft mentioned alongside …Red Hat.

I have an adjacent vent and that is I hate how companies put so little effort into the UX of their mobile web pages. Privacy concerns aside, I would still prefer not to have 100 apps on my phone and just use web pages; but my bank’s web page suuuuucks and so well, I have the app.

IDK I think we’ll continue to see incremental gains for a long time, especially as normies abandon desktops/laptops entirely and the entire market shrinks. Windows will probably continue to dominate in enterprise for long past when it’s fashionable.

It’s crazy because Apple had every reason to be FAR ahead in that game.

That’s totally reasonable I only brought up Google Glass because it was famously ridiculed (“Glassholes”) and yet still more fashionable even today than these things.

First of all, all of these eye computers are dumb, but at least Meta’s Ray Bans look more or less like normal glasses. Even Google Glass was sleeker looking than these, and that was 13 years ago. I don’t know what Snap is thinking.

Same, and I personally know two people who I would describe as college educated white-collar folks, but definitely not into “tech”, who recently told me they switched to Firefox.

Assuming you mean desktop Linux, probably slowly. While Linux on desktop is growing, Desktops PC use in general is trending downwards and Linux on mobile is far behind the other players.

My gut says that long before Linux overtakes Windows/Macintosh most people who want a mouse/keyboard/monitor experience will just plug their phone into a simple dock, like we’re seeing with Android’s “Desktop mode”.

It’s also beside the point. They said oil prices “barely changed” but whatever their definition of “barely” is, they changed enough to bankrupt a big company.

Not sure where you live but it shut down an entire low-cost budget airline for low-income people in the USA

Oh we’re definitely getting solar. Even with all the red tape around its installation and tax money spent oil subsidies, it’s getting to be so cheap that few of the roadblocks matter. There is very little even the oligarchs can do at this point to stop it’s adoption.

I mean, if you believe in capitalism as many of our dear leaders do, you wouldn’t feel a need to “ask people” about limiting usage. As a product becomes more expensive, eventually people will naturally limit usage and purchase another cheaper product.

Not saying that’s correct or how it works but might explain the behavior.

I don’t disagree with anything you said but the future may be here sooner than we think, solar has become quite popular for renters in Germany and New York recently passed a law allowing it too.

“The guy”? What?

The social ecosystem around FOSS is so horribly toxic. There’s an “upper middle class” of power user that aren’t quite developers, that insult everyone with less experience, and openly harass the developers themselves. I honestly don’t know how FOSS can expand adoption as long as these people exist. They are a dual-edged sword that disincentivizes both new adoptees and long term app support.

This is really telling. Coal industry receives large government subsidies, and solar is getting put behind a lot of red tape and permitting, etc. And despite these efforts it is still catching on.

I’m glad to see this in the Financial Times because “clean power” is only half the equation here. There is an economic benefit because solar is cheap power! And there also a national defense angle because solar is increasingly decentralized power that kneecaps both the terrorist looking to damage power infrastructure, not to mention the very concept of the petrostate.