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they're the ones really burying their head in the sand pretending they don't know this is happening and couldn't do anything to stop it.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Is this today's avocado toast?

Or very Russian, as in Muscovite

All the best, @levzzz@lemmy.world!

What about the aspects of a fish

Dang

And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products on the company domain without running it by IT. It’s called “self service”, enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.

LMAO that is a special kind of pathetic

Because Ukraine isn't a proxy and neither is Russia.

Maybe this was a localization thing, but interestingly, the game at one point kind of calls you a god (translated and from memory: "you are what humans call a god"). There are also multiple elements in the game that have religious themes: the protagonist's name, Ark, which I always linked to the story of Noah, as it's Ark bringing life to a world that was destroyed, death and rebirth etc. (possibly even thrice, the ending is ambiguous) - also the game is somewhat "anachronistic" to say the least. Also the translation of the Japanese title is roughly "creation of Heaven and Earth".

While the game is technically a bit flawed, story- and presentation-wise it's probably one of my favorites of all time. The subtly eerie setup with everything (e.g. the jingle presenting the acts' titles), man's "emancipation" from nature / Gaia, which arguably caused the catastrophe in the first place, the weird encounters - absolutely fantastic in my opinion.

If I had a different specialisation, I'd probably care. But my job is mostly reading and writing documents, and they installed Miktex on my office machine, so I don't want to complain.

We do have formal security requirements to meet though, and I think in general locking down machines in your network is the correct choice. But it's probably not needed in every job

Their higher-end models seem of nice build quality at least, but that's something I just expect at a certain price point.

Linux isn't even an option at my current job, it's WSL if anything. And that on the development machines only. Office work machines are Win 10 without any privileges, which I'm fine with. Employer pays for the time I take longer for certain things. His choice.

Unfortunately, there aren't that many great European options, so buying somewhat domestic is hard.

Ah, okay. I do have thinkpads for work, same at my previous employer, I'd say they're pretty forgettable, not sure I'd buy Lenovo for anything that needs to be particularly secure, just read the English wiki entry for Lenovo about security incidents, but I'd be more careful when procuring for work, especially in certain fields.

Excuse my smugness, but being excited for your premium laptop maker to bring back a feature that is standard basically everywhere (all of my four laptops have HDMI, and out of those, my two non-work ones also come with DisplayPort) is such an Apple thing

It's like these people claiming that you need that connectivity for a lot of work were right.

Rightfully criticizing Israel and the crimes committed in its name (also including settler violence etc) doesn't make you an antisemite.

Claiming Jews are evil because of that, ignoring those protesting against their government's actions, or voicing their opinion in diaspora, would be though.

Currently, there's no serious discussion about removal from mainline. And LTS won't remove it.

Should it happen, you can still use Kent's kernel tree as before. Whether distributions ship it - who knows.

If there's no mainline or dkms support, I'll move my storage away from it in favor of btrfs that I've successfully used the years before instead of switching to LTS. Just because of future maintainability and migration options.

Nobody forced him to apologize. On the other hand, the Linux community isn't forced to take his patches.

While I understand the sentiment, I'd argue that an apology should be made in the same context as what you're apologizing for. Kent made his statements on the LKML - if his apology is sincere, I don't think it's too much to ask to put it there as well

So this is a retaliatory tariff and not actually one that makes particular sense otherwise.

It’s also creating demand for trucks that are terrible at doing truck stuff.

Yeah, they're garbage.

Saying “the market demands big trucks” ignores the billions they spend making the market demand big trucks.

It's probably some kind of feedback loop.

On the other hand, if just marketing budget created demand, they'd advertise these more here as not a lot of people own one. But someone figured out that that marketing budget would probably not yield an RoI, as opposed to the US. Though they're are probably practical factors at pay, like gas prices and road size.

That could also be, I'm not American so I don't know all the details.

However, watching from the outside, it clearly comes off as some kind of statement.

I don't know, is that particular tariff already in effect?

I'm not saying they're always good, bit that they can be a strategic instrument. The example you brought up makes no sense, I agree. But I'm sure if carmakers saw a market for a class of cars, they'd take the opportunity - maybe not on their core brand (like I don't think Ford would build one under that brand in the US).

Yeah, the fact that every sporting event's commercials rotate between dick pills, beer, and giant trucks totally doesn't have anything to do with it.

I think this rather proves my point, they're lifestyle products targeting a specific demographic under the guide of being a utility.

I think this is rather an issue with what the majority of the market wants. If carmakers saw a bigger profit in offering smaller transport vehicles (pickup trucks in my opinion aren't even particularly good at transporting a lot of stuff), they'd manufacturer and sell them.

But the truth is pickup trucks are often just lifestyle products (when I need to transport something, I just rent something adequate) and as such, there is a much larger customer base than for sensible options, which makes the others commercially risky.