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“Fair use is only fair if we do it”

The best practice is to buy a separate PC for each system and while you are at it, try buying a new house to perfectly isolate both systems /s

When you consider how many students were shoot with 3d printed guns… Oh wait, those were all manufactured by a proper business, carry on then, we don’t want to interrupt big businesses.

Restrict access to vinyl tape!

I am old, I have used windows for around 20 years. I am also a geek. I tried Mac OS a long time ago - not geeky enough and the hardware was too expensive for me back then.

Tried Linux several times. It was fun, but I had too many issues, up until now.

In my opinion if you plot user friendliness over time for Linux and windows, the Linux is going up on the friendliness axis, slowly but steadily. Windows on the other hand… Goes somewhere. Every good idea MS devs have is countered by 3 terrible (for users) from the marketing department.

I want to be the owner of my own PC. I want to control everything, windows was good enough a few years ago, but it is not anymore, the cloud integration plus AI bulshit, plus bloatware.

No, thanks.

Kojima’s ancestors in this part of the world?!?

In Afghanistan

I heard it’s a highway, but the last time I visited Hel, it was mostly a small local road

Ah as a Russean (is that how you call a person living on the Russian continent?), I do not like this map.

Lol… By the magic of being poor

Gullible people expected to pay much more for SpaceX than it’s current valuation (I fixed the title)

Oh no! The evil China will turn us against our Billionaire overlords and their newest money sucking machine!

…Anyways

No, he said two-earner households, will become one-earner households, he didn’t mention* anyone will become rich**, just that one person from the household will become unemployed.

(* at least he didn’t mention it in the cited fragment. I didn’t read the entire thing, my time is too precious, I must waste it on writing comments instead of reading sources.) (** Of course he will become richer, but that’s the obvious part of the idea and doesn’t need to be mentioned)

I also switched from win 10, but I must use Win11 at work and I hate it. I decided to never switch to 11 on my private computer. Especially that I would need to buy a new PC, MS found my hardware unworthy of their new system. After a tenth reminder from Microslop I decided to install Linux. It’s my third try with Linux and it’s better than the previous one by miles. The only thing that I couldn’t get to work so far is M$ Teams, and I’m happy about it.

I don’t like the expression “guarantee fiber to every home”, I don’t think intervention like that is needed, It’s enough if the country guarantees fair competition. But I agree that Starlink lets you bypass local obstacles like local incompetence/corruption or censorship*

* unless it's the kind of censorship that Elon supports, then I am pretty sure Starlink will soon block it as well

I don’t think it’s the same, we already have the infrastructure for the network in most places with a dense population. Existing infrastructure is of the similar quality to Starlink, and the maintenance cost for the existing infrastructure is lower.

In case of GPS, the infrastructure existing before was much worse.

The only cases I can think of, where Starlink outperforms the existing infrastructure are:

1. Areas with low population density - the problem, in those areas, by definition, there aren’t many customers

2. Situation when someone is actively trying to sabotage the existing infrastructure, like those ships, that are breaking underwater internet cables, or the active jamming near the front lines - what happens in the Ukraine shows that Starlink is great for that case. It is enough to treat it as strategically important, but it doesn’t justify the starlink valuation. I really hope this market won’t grow much.

Starlink is basically a military tech that is too expensive even for the US military, so it was sold to gullible investors as a great deal… It won’t ever be profitable, at least not near the level that was promised. But it might turn out to be essential during a few wars.

What does this headline even mean?

Are electric horses better than gas powered horses or what?

Well, the headphones are still a separate thing. They are even more separate now, than they ever were (each one earphone is separate now)

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