Steady on there Descartes.
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I use Windows at work (it is a corporate laptop) but I don't use a single app which is Windows-only and irreplaceable. My current job isn't technology-focused, and I don't really use anything except standard office-related software.
In my previous job I was a software engineer and also used Windows (same reason; corporate laptop) but again everything I used would have worked in Linux.
People should use whatever platform works best for them. I'm a Linux user at heart, but I'm all for using Windows if that's the right tool for the job. But it's not a "grown ups need Windows only teenagers can use Linux" thing. Most working people would do fine with Linux or Mac.
You can start one on a cloud hosting service tomorrow, and then if at some point you want to move to "on premises" hosting (as in, a Raspberry Pi in your basement) then you can migrate over easily enough. That's the whole point of self-hosting; all of the data is yours to manipulate and move around as much as you like.
Plenty of US businesses play ball with the European norms when they function in Europe. The big US car manufacturers (Ford, and GM back before they sold Opel/Vauxhall) are unionised in Europe.
They recognise that the game they play at home in the States is very different to the game in Europe.
That Tesla isn't smart enough to figure out the same thing is not an enormous surprise.
I can practically hear the EU Commission stoking the furnace as we speak...
How much effort that they've put into battling hate speech is irrelevant; all that matters is how successful those efforts are. It feels like there is far more hate speech on the platform than there was a couple of years ago, ergo they're failing.
If I were an advertiser concerned that my brand will appear alongside rampant neo-Naziism, it would be scarce comfort to be told "yeah, but we tried..."
It's a big tech company. Unless you're an actual coal-face developer or sysadmin, most of the actual challenges will be the same regardless of what the machines with the blinky lights are actually doing.
It's not like the CEO is expected to be cutting code.
If I had to wildly guess, I'd say recruiting/career opportunity ads. Demographic and interest-based targeting would be pretty effective at drilling down to the sorts of people you'd want to apply.
More to the point, who in their right mind thinks that BMW would be selling a car with a 45mph top speed? Like, at all?
The fact that a person who works for a BMW dealership of all people would genuinely think this is simply not credible.
Oh dear god I hope nobody was planning on giving ChatGPT nuclear bombs.
I was only trying to be funny, apologies. I thought it was ludicrous enough that it'd pass. Channeling some boomer humour.
Seriously though, I do understand the appeal of it, just not the appeal-to-price ratio. £200 is a lot of money for a glorified screen mirroring device. It's not that it's overpriced per se (it's probably about right in terms of the cost of the hardware), just that I don't understand how it can be worth it with that functionality at that price point.
It's just fancy virtualization. It's not really wildly different from KVM/QEMU going the other way.
It's hard to get too excited about it. It's not going to replace real Linux builds, which dominate the server space in a way which is never going to be meaningfully challenged by "Linux in a VM under Windows".
Windows implementing WSL is their concession that they've lost the server market and they aren't getting it back, and if they don't want to lose the workstation market as well they need to make sure that Linux development can happen easily on Windows boxes. Their business case for it is clear, and it's really not got anything to do with classic EEE tactics.