I’d also accept Honhon

In that case we’ll call it Frisio, French Visio.

The big car brands in Germany are pivoting to internal combustion for the top as an audible status symbol and electric for the common man, so that tracks.

Sell these to the “but mah vroom vroom noise” crowd and switch everything to electric.

Especially in the rust belt

Time to rename it XXX.

The thing never understood my local dialect and speaking to electronics like you’re speaking to the king in your most polished language is never gonna happen. It usually gets even worse with multiple languages. Ask the assistent in English to play a French song and be horrified what it actually comes up with. It might have improved, I haven’t tested this in quite some time, but I can’t be bothered with it.

In a previous company, they roled out their update every few months. Every time, it closed all the ports we need to actually work. Make ticket, wait until IT got around to it, tell people no connection means no work. Those were the days to update documentation.

And they can’t afford to stay behind in their opinion. If there’s a chance general AI works and they’re not using it when it kicks in, they’re going to be left behind in the dust.

Of course this would also shake apart the labor market, the remaining taters of the social fabric and the economy, but that’s a problem for next quarter.

Yeah, it means giving up the current cash cow and they’ll only do that when it’s visibly dying. And then the competition has too much of a headed start so it’s already to late.

Coal Brittain -> Petro Murica -> Electro China.

It’s funny how China said years ago that was the plan and they’re doing it while nobody stopped them because of short term greed.

https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox

One of the classics

The Overton window is again threatening satire?

while saying you have to be in the office because of the interaction

Nah, they want everybody to only use their robotaxi too.

layoffs happen all the time when the economy contracts

Yeah, USA economy is stagnating or shrinking and it’s just the AI bubble holding everything up.

Cue Sam Altman saying abundance every two sentences but never explaining how that would work.

That’s what they’ve been trying to do by coming up with the next new shiny thing to invest in. Remember Blockchain, NFT and the like.

Still, the layoffs are here, so even if the bubble gets its time extended it won’t help the situation for many.

Mostly people with very cheap employers. Like, we had to keep using the old computer mice with a ball, and regularly waste time cleaning out the lint, instead of just getting us optical mice.

Tales from the field:

One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting “WHAT DID YOU DO!!” The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they’re still standing in the door opening.

One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn’t found any outlet for his drill, and he didn’t want to run an extension cord, so plugged the drill one in the only outlet he found. It was the outlet marked by a different color because it was linked to the UPS, and that UPS went down hard when the drilling started, taking all the servers with it. That recovery took some time.