I’ll believe AI can replace engineers when I see NVIDIA firing them. But like the graphic says, the manager’s job seems a lot easier to replace instead.

Perhaps this was written much earlier than v5.

Maybe this is useful https://tunnelbroker.net/

All business models are aimed at company profitability. Customer satisfaction is an expensive early necessity which you can largely do away with as you become entrenched.

I’m assuming it’s aimed at people trying to avoid tying the hosting IP to the publicly consumable service.

Starts of nice and calmly, then the editor goes full on with the metal music thrashing for the title sequence. What a trip!

Only if or when storage becomes cheap and widespread, otherwise even if you produced 100x the energy when the Sun shines you’d still need some other source of energy for the rest of the time. There are some glimmers of hope but they perpetually seem 4-5 years out.

I was scanning it for the “we’ve been played for ABSOLUTE FOOLS” part.

…the itch wasn’t scratched. :(

No probably about it.

Mechanical watches lose 10-15 secs per day which declines as they get older or aren’t serviced, a $40 Casio might miss 30 secs per month, never needs servicing other than a battery change.

Mechanical watches are no longer utility items, they are fashion items that happen to tell time.

From someone with a passing interest, Krita seems on a similar trajectory to Blender - gathering momentum and going from strength to strength, whereas Gimp seems rather stuck.

No, there are plenty of independent private game developers (Stardew Valley, Baldur’s gate etc come to mind) I was just taking Phil Spencer’s perspective, which I imagine is a platform level one.

Yes, but can you roll a platform of the distribution, breadth, depth and persistence over good and bad cycles of the scale of Xbox or PlayStation while being a private company? A few have tried.

No worries.

For those who were wondering:

On the security updates:

Yes they’ll provide some security updates for some time even out of contract. No time frame given, only in relative release numbers:

Our naming convention for releases is: <major>.<minor>.<patch>.

Version -2 of currently released minor version goes EOL. The cadence is not explicitly provided

On not renewing or renewing later:

Yes, jump in any time.

Can I update every second or third year? Will the previous versions receive security updates?

Sorry, I must have been too tired, got nearly all details wrong: 32GB RAM 1TB M.2, USB3.2, BT4.2,WiFi 5,4k HDMI, Gigabit Port, and not a Beelink but a DreamQuest. There’s just the M2 interface disk connected, no SSD.

It’s literally one of those little known brand nuc, tiny box - beelink I think. Total cost $200 or so - it’s been running non stop for the last 3 months without an issue. I don’t think it even has a fan in there.

I’m running a n100 16gb with a 256ssd, 4vms and 4 docker images, it’s pulling 7-9w.

Reading “at Bluesky” in every second sentence gave me futuristic dystopian movie vibes.

Not sure about fediverse following along given that, essentially, creating an account on a server is adopting the server admin’s moderation policy.

Having said that, there might be some value in being able to overlay multiple moderation filters - though not sure at what point you create such a siloed experience as to be a net negative.

Try to name it and follow it back to its roots. WHAT am I feeling?

A great tip and a start to a meditative practice.

As an addendum: Many times, curiously observing your feelings is watching those feelings ebb away and disappear.

If you can stay in that space, or keep on going back to it you’ll be distinctly less likely to be overwhelmed by those emotions, as you’ll be creating some distance between the feeling and consciousness.

You come across as a good and thoughtful person - trying to help someone you identified as in need. I do hope the OP reads your response, identifies with something in your writing and follows your advice.

First move of any new management is to take the worst possible stocktake and shine the worst possible light to last management’s figures. Then any meagre positive movement or even if things remain the same will look like improvement.