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  • Wait, a supposedly federate-able, but at the moment centrally-controlled social media app isn’t following the rules?

    I’m shocked, shocked I say!

    (Yes, sarcasm).

    I think it’s funny all the people leaving Twitter for Bluesky since Twitter’s been clearly exposed for the shit hole it’s always been. As if it’s shittiness is new, and any other similar system won’t be as bad.

    It’s not systems, it’s people.

    Systems can contribute to making things worse (or better), but they aren’t the source.













  • Yep, that’s the same issue with Mac. When you have a single Business Unit that wants Macs, they have to make a big sell to IT to get it. It’s got to make a massive difference to their productivity for IT to absorb the extra effort for them.

    Then when you return the costs to the BU they complain they have to pay more for IT than other BUs. Well, yea, you take more effort than everyone else who fit the standard model. Uniqueness ain’t cheap.


  • I don’t know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days

    Hahahahahaha

    Clearly you haven’t worked in a business with more than a few users, with the simplest of requirements.

    Come manage a 20-user environment where you need business-standard apps to interoperate seamlessly with every client you have.

    Now expand that to 10,000 users.

    Let’s see you run CAD on a Linux box.

    Let’s see you open/edit/return an excel file without fucking it up. Especially because most of such files will have tables, and Libre/Open office doesn’t support tables.

    Which Linux distro you going to use on laptops, that has power management that isn’t painful to configure? Or that even works?

    Which distro supports all the hardware you already own, out of the box? Manpower to setup systems, and figure out new ways to do things, isn’t free.

    Then you’re talking about re-training staff to use a completely different OS and tools, when they have approaches that have been used for decades, across generations of users.

    On and on it goes.

    One should understand why a fence exists, before thinking of removing it. You clearly don’t understand business if you think it’s that simple.


  • It’s possible a smart TV will use its wifi to connect to another device of the same brand on its own. I’d read an article about it a couple years ago.

    If I’m reading about it, that means a company has been working on it, and frankly it makes sense. If I were in their shoes I’d look into making it happen. It’s pretty trivial to do when you think about it.

    Not that I think it’s happening in the wild, just an idea to keep in mind.

    Also, those devices are always capturing data. So if/when they ever connect, that data will get uploaded.