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They're probably located way out in the sticks too. Who wants to pack up all their stuff and sell their house and move to the rural deep South for a job that may or may not work out long-term? And if it doesn't work out, they now have to sell the house they bought there (because there's nothing decent in that area on the rental market) and move cross-country yet again?

For even more credit, they should leave all the extra telemetry and other crap out of the download, so it's only a megabyte or so, instead of 150MB, and let people opt-in to downloading that junk.

Where is your workplace located? Perhaps it's in a crappy place that no one wants to live in, and you should look at relocating.

Someone should forward this article to the C-suite at Nintendo.

What a colossal waste of money and effort. The person or people who wasted their money on this project should have known better than to erect such a thing in the deep South.

From the Wikipedia article: "Some locals referred to its construction as 'the devil's work'. A local minister warned that "occult groups" would visit the site and that a sacrifice was imminent." Even worse: "Kandiss Taylor, a candidate in the 2022 Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary, called the Guidestones "Satanic" in a campaign ad"

With local culture this backwards, you can't expect something like this to last for long.

Too bad. They've had many centuries to unite their peninsula into a single country, and didn't do it, so they don't deserve any special consideration for the name "Iberia".

>Well Microsoft already lost the consumer market. Apple and Android dwarf Windows market share.

For phones, sure, but we're talking about PCs here. MS hasn't tried anything in the smartphone market for ages now. Android isn't a PC OS at all, and Apple's laptop and desktop computers are a tiny fraction of MS's.

>Where they still have some presence is corporate productivity and gaming, both of which are eroding.

"Some presence" is a huge understatement. The corporate world is still mostly running on Windows, unfortunately. Macs are not a serious contender here at all except maybe for some design stuff. Their domination for gaming might be eroding, but they're still highly dominant here too.

>The future is not bright for Microsoft.

Their financials look excellent right now. Of course, they're actually pretty smart, pushing into cloud services and such instead of just clinging to OS sales, so that'll probably continue.

I'd love to see everyone suddenly switch to various Linux distros and for MS to dry up overnight, but I just don't see it happening in the real world.

That's great, really, but people like you are a tiny minority. MS can afford to lose a very small number of customers, since they'll much more than make up for the loss by doing anti-user stuff like baking ads into the OS. In the last 40 years, I just haven't seen very many people get fed up enough with MS to leave, and instead I've watched MS's stock price and valuation continue to rise.

>Realistically, who is going to buy a dumb TV at a much higher cost? People who are already savvy enough to get around a smart TV?

Exactly, that's why all this "I want a dumb TV!" stuff is, well, dumb.

It doesn't cost any less for a mfgr to make a dumb TV, in fact it would cost more. Modern TVs need a lot of computing power to make them work properly, so making the thing connect to the internet and show you ads really costs them nothing for hardware. Then they get to subsidize the TV with all the ad revenue, the kickbacks from the various streaming apps pre-installed, etc. A dumb TV would end up having the exact same hardware and a higher price tag. What kind of idiot would buy that? Not enough to make it worthwhile for the mfgr. If you don't want ads, just don't connect the TV to the internet.

It's a lot like modern Windows laptops that are cheaper than the same laptop with Linux pre-installed. MS and/or the laptop mfgr get a bunch of kickbacks from the crapware vendors to pre-install their crapware, so you end up paying less than you would for having the mfgr pre-install Linux (a free OS).

I don't see the problem here. Badgering you to subscribe to some crap helps make more profit for MS, and this is good for MS shareholders. It might make the user experience worse, but who cares about that? It's not like Windows users are ever going to abandon the platform, so what's wrong with making them miserable in order to increase profits?

Yeah, that's why I think all this talk is really silly and a waste of time. Management simply does not believe in "flow" or the need for deep concentration. If you actually need to concentrate deeply to get your job done, you're going to fail in most workplaces today. The best you can do is to try to find a way of getting enough work done, despite the noisy open-plan office environment and constant distractions. The days of walled offices for programmers are long gone, and they're not coming back.

They specifically said it's free and legal. Do you have proof otherwise?

Obviously, this stuff is merely geo-locked. There's nothing illegal about using a VPN to get around stupid geo-locking restrictions.

No one's using an Intel ARC graphics card in an enterprise setting. If they don't understand this and are not worried about power consumption, this is just yet another reason Intel is swirling the drain.

>I honestly think it would be a huge mistake, especially at this point. I think they are too far invested in this strategy to abandon it now.

Don't assume any great intelligence on the part of these board members. If all these company-running people were so brilliant, Intel wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.

>They stated that they see specifically a lot of Mullvad ads. Not general VPN ads.

I've only seen VPN ads from one company actually plastered in metro stations and inside subway cars: Mullvad. I've never seen physical ads for any other VPN provider.

I've seen lots of horribly annoying ads (or "sponsor segments") from various other VPNs, and I'm sure I've blocked orders of magnitude more of them by using SponsorBlock. But for real, in-person ads? Only Mullvad.

I'm not criticizing Mullvad here. In fact, this is probably a smart strategy on their part: if you're too clueless to use an ad-blocker online, you're not going to see other VPN providers' ads very much. But if you're highly privacy-focused, you'll already be using an ad-blocker and probably SponsorBlock too if you watch YouTube videos, so you really won't see other companies online ads much. But you can't miss physical ads on your subway ride. Their ads are also cute and clever, pointing out that a piece of paper stuck to the wall isn't tracking you the way most internet advertising does.

>Youtube and Reddit are the worst. I am pretty convinced the aggressive blocking is not because of abuse, but because VPNs actually have become a "problem" for tracking and data mining.

FTFY (added scare quotes)

I don't see blocking tracking and data mining as a problem at all, but rather a very good thing.

>Their deprecation of openvpn sucks for me too.

When did this happen? I was still able to use it within the last couple of weeks, whenever I last tried it.

They should have simply migrated, at their own great expense, to Microsoft SQL Server. /s

Anyway, this should be a good lesson for anyone thinking about using Microsoft technologies.

You shouldn't need to shut down your computer just to have low power consumption when you're not doing much. I just built a home server PC using an AMD Ryzen CPU and the entire machine consumes 24W, measured at the wall, when the hard drives are spun down. That's including the CPU/MB, memory, 4 case fans (at a lower rpm), and 1 NVMe drive, plus the CPU fan, the power supply fan, and all the losses from the power supply itself (power supplies aren't that efficient at idle loads). That's all less power than people here are saying this stupid GPU card consumes at idle (30W). It should not more than double my power consumption just to plug in a GPU card and have it do nothing.

For a robotics company, their code is the "secret sauce" that makes their company valuable. It wouldn't make sense to open-source it all and let their competitors do the same thing without having had to spend so much money and time developing it.

Open source works great for shared code that isn't part of the "value added" by a company. So for a modern robotics company, it makes a lot more sense to use Linux for instance rather than rolling their own proprietary OS. And to use an open-source compiler for building the code. They're in the business of providing solutions using robotics, not selling operating systems and compilers, just like countless other companies build their products on top of these infrastructural tools, and sometimes contribute bug fixes and improvements back. But the code that actually makes the robot work (vision, motion planning, etc.) is what they spent most of their funding building, so giving it away makes no business sense.

Basically, you're complaining about all companies having trade secrets, and ultimately, you're complaining that competition exists instead of just having a single company having a monopoly over a whole market.

No, I'm proposing the opposite: that states try to act more like Norway/Finland by themselves, instead of hoping the federal government will do so (which isn't going to happen).

And yes, schools are funded by local taxes, but it doesn't have to be that way: if states really wanted to, they could take that power away from municipalities. The constitution gives the states broad powers to run themselves as they like.

No problem, you just bring your TV with you when you travel. /s

His point is that the long-distance connection has been digital for many decades now, even back in the 1980s according to one comment here.

He's being hyperbolic of course, since there's people in their 90s and 100s who made phone calls way back when you had to talk to the operator to place a long-distance call. But the general point is valid: how many people here actually remember the days when the connection was all-analog? You would have had to be making LD calls in the 1970s probably.

>The board actually want Intel to be itself back in the good old days, leading edge node and selling CPU at a premium

Those days are gone and never coming back. How do they get people this clueless on the board anyway?

>Intel dominated because their fabs were better. At some point they got complacent and stopped investing. Pat changed that and hopefully it continues.

I thought the board wanted to split the company in two, while Pat wanted to invest in the fabs. Now that he's gone, doesn't that mean the board will find someone who agrees with them about spinning off the fab business?

That's a very stupid and offensive response, considering the OP explicitly wrote: "One of my use cases for VPN is to watch free, legal anime on YouTube from Muse-Asia."

Let's think of the converse: should it be illegal to provide an AI chatbot to children that indoctrinates them with anti-religious beliefs (i.e., it talks them out of religious beliefs)? And what if this conflicts with the child's indoctrination in religious beliefs by those parents? And what if those religious beliefs are actively harmful, as many religious beliefs are? (see any cult for example)

To turn this around, why are parents allowed to indoctrinate their children into cults? And why is it a problem if AI chatbots indoctrinate them differently? Why is it held as sacrosanct that parents should be able to indoctrinate children with harmful beliefs?

There isn't much stopping individual states from adopting similar measures.

No, I'm not at all. If you really think the GOP is going to promote legislation to "[Ensure] sick leave, vacation time, and [improve] wages, especially on the lower end", then you are seriously delusional. You'd have to be a complete idiot to think that GOP politicians are going to push for any of this stuff, because they've never done so in the past, and it certainly isn't part of their current platform. Those goes even more for disincentivizing private school, vouchers, etc., since those are things the GOP has been actively promoting for ages. They've also said nothing about wanting to increase housing supply.

This place is claimed to be "hacker news"; an explanation of the significance of the number 2600 shouldn't be necessary. :-)