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What a non-story.

They basically asked: In an ad, do you prefer an actor reading out the marketing script or a computer-rendered face?

Which is exactly why security should be on the executive agenda.

I've been macOS user for past decade.

I find macOS UI superior to both Gnome and KDE.

I'm not surprised.

Also, I'm not sure if Gnome tries to mimic OS X or Windows or KDE, for the sake of this argument. Gnome (classic) was invented to replace (original) KDE, which sort-of tried to replace Windows.

Stuff evolves. UIs oscillate between minimalism and overload.

You fill up the usable space. Or the visible space. No one will disamble the device and read from the raw storage.

See, that's why I can't dress nice. I'm not lazy; this is an organized protest to better mankind.

Every generation has this moment, where they learn to hate Microsoft (or Micro$oft). Then, 4% install Linux, 6% buy a Mac with half the RAM for twice the price; and everyone else to keeps complaining.

With so much division in the world, unification just sounds right.

Yes, what's strange? This is the beta release or release candidate or pre-release snapshot for a version that will enjoy long-term support.

Without iMessage, right?

This is the risk and it has happened before.

The AI won't do my job exactly, but managers mostly manage, i.e. deal with organisational overhead. That Excel you've been maintaining for the past decade was never as crucial to the business' success as you made it appear. It was something the higher ups liked to talk about with pretty charts. An UI can generate other things to talk about from the same data.

I don't agree that those people don't have transferable skills, but I agree that's going to hurt. Like flattening hierachies, self-organised teams and outsourcing, previously cushy jobs will be replaced with more stressful ones.

You used to have a secretary to make calls for you and organise your calender. Now you have copilot and customers call you directly.

You don't need powerful AI or anything for this to happen. They just stopped hiring secretarial staff when managers learned how to use a computer.

Most specialized software are web apps running in a browser hosted on the cloud these days. I'm sure they exist, but I couldn't name any HR, ERM, CRM, .. software that's not a web app.

The desktop OS is becoming irrelevant. That's why those who want a Mac or Linux notebook can make it work, at least from a purely technical point of view; i.e. if the company allows it. That's also, why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop. (I mention Macs here, because while OS X gets some commercial software that you won't get on Linux, it's not that much outside of some niches)

There will never be a year of the Linux desktop because you gain very little from replacing Edge on Windows with Firefox on Linux (a different software that does the same thing). However, you loose some specialised software and your IT supplier, your IT service provider, half of your IT staff and some of your non-IT employees' skills. This does not sound like a good business case.

Linux on the desktop never happened, because Linux on the server replaced desktop applications.

I don't know if it is fair to call it a disaster. I don't know enough from the inside, but I believe in retrospect the goal was maybe to ambitious or plain wrong.

They were attempting to port huge amounts of decades old Office macros to OpenOffice. That failed, but before the LiMux project they had already failed to migrate the same to a modern version of MS Office.

The goal for LiMux was to be a better Windows than the best Windows Microsoft would offer at the time. Literally impossible.

That combined with strong lobbying and users confused with a different UI and probably a lot of small day-to-day issues (which happens with any software, but can make an IT department look bad) made it politically hard to sustain an 'experiment'.

The current IT lead of Munich, hired after migrating back to Microsoft, does not seem to be a Microsoft fan.

Same in Jerboa. Extremely annoying.

Also interested!

Never tried them, but people claim that they are great for anything but music. You can totally listen to music through your bone, but the experience lacks behind good headphones.

Can i hire you?

So stablecoins are dead. We get another message type in swift. A boring dystopia.

COBOL

12% of the population will fall from some window??

That's why I browse Lemmy. Thank you.

in mill basis points?