Just think of all those lost profits and how high we could get one or two guys net wealth!
If anyone in those socialist hellholes needs an experience information security engineer, I'd love to protect things that actually matter for a change.
CAWright
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I don't think Slimbook has an equivalent to the Gen 10. Their EVO 14 looks like the InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen 9. Apples to apples, Slimbook is cheaper with the discount.
Western civilizations attach success to the wrong factors. I hate the idea of rapid business growth being necessary to be considered successful.
I only hang on to a few subreddits that don't have equivalents here. This would be the final nail in the reddit coffin for me.
This is a nice blast (no pun intended) from the past. I put one of these in my first new and fully built PCs back around 1994. I had 30-pin SIMMs left over from my previous 386 that worked well in the add-on slots. That was about the coolest thing on that 486 since I went with a VLB video card and couldn't afford a CD-ROM. I think I ran with the AWE32 through several upgrades until I bought an off-the-shelf HP in 2000.
Even if the US weren't a shit show right now, this is still a good move. These top players have gotten very comfortable with their high user share. The only way to get them back to following the consumer needs/wants is to hurt them monetarily. Microsoft has experienced this before with IE and their assumed domination of everything computing in the early 2000s. People started switching away from their closed ecosystem and they, painfully, had to redesign things to meet needs. Windows 8 is the same thing. Ballmer's Microsoft lost alot of consumer sentiment by pushing things people didn't want.
The difference now is that so many people are willing to take whatever poop is shoveled at them. It will take more of us who are intelligent and discerning to flip away and bring others with us. Nadella will be the next Ballmer if he's not careful. Google will lose out to another search engine, or engines, if the aren't careful.
Open source is the way, but not without alot of support for "the lesser" among us. Fediverse and big social media alternatives as well. The Internet of today is nowhere near the magnificent beast it was in the 90s and very early 2000s. No intelligent person wants AI slop 24/7.
The world would be better without a marketing company moonlighting as a software developer.
The big difference is probably the willingness and aptitude of your clients. I'm not in a very smart part of my country and the people are generally set in their ways. I think they have a sort of fatalism in that they believe that they must obey the corporate overlords or they will not get to play in the sandbox.
This is more of a "pick your battles" moment. These people aren't self-learners and would need to have their hands held at all times. They can barely comprehend Windows and macOS. They would become a burden on me and just switch back eventually.
I would love to but none would. They are too comfy in their microsoft world. I agree with you on the content made to consume, not to think aspect. I also think we keep making things easier and easier so that people don't need skills to do anything anymore.
If they could only invest that into making good vehicles.
I wonder who downvoted you. It's a true statement. Capitalists aren't there to make good products or services. They solely exist to squeeze as much money out of everything they can. They are a disease.