Sometimes I feel like believing the conspiracy theory that the heads at mozilla are google flunkies, who only keep the browser around so google can't be called out for monopolistic behavior with Chrome. Firefox is the only alternative to V8, the Chrome web engine. Safari doesn't really count

Yet

So, how is cross compatibility between Haiku, AROS and Linux?

Hello, this is the Arch police, btw. As you have not stated you use it btw, your license to use Arch has been revoked, btw.

It's not like anyone didn't know it made perfect sense in an economic standpoint. "Buying" software and downloading it straight from the internet is much, much more convenient than buying physical copies, I know that, you know that, everyone knows that. People that cling to physical media are minorities, we know that.

"You will own nothing", but we will be fucking miserable

Most solutions require engineering the building for little to no use of AC and relying on better ventilation.

One example that can be applied to a house is a central shaft with a fan on the bottom, which will pull in air closer to the ground and blow it upwards - remember, cold air tends to stay down while hot air tends to go upwards. The house will need to have a small elevation, or the central shaft will need some ducts for the air to come in.

There's also the Persian Windcatchers, which they have used for centuries, towers that receive hot air from one side, bring it down to an underground channel and blow off cold air from another side.

Dude can't even suck his own dick in peace without old timey medics calling him out

Microsoft has a responsibility to support decades-old software, which is why you can download an app or game made for Windows 95 and still run it on Windows 11.

Eh, debatable, some titles of the 90s might not run, even if you set the executable to run in compatibility mode.

My other concern is that WinUI surfaces have historically paid a cold-start cost when loading the runtime. Even today, File Explorer’s WinUI context menu gets criticized for exactly that. The WinUI-based Home tab in File Explorer is slower than “This PC,” which does not use WinUI.

M$ wondering why people are pinching their noses when near w11 when they've been slopping all over it. Release something broken, "fix" it later, only this is going way, way worse than XP (which needed 2 service packs to "feel good" and be safer), Vista (which needed W7) and even 8 (which needed W10)

If you ever worked on any big corporation, it becomes crystal clear why things suck. Megacorps value money first, second, third, fourth and fifth. Sixth comes avoiding being caught by their crimes.

So, Microsoft doesn't have a vision for Windows as an operating system, it sees Windows as a way to maintain a stranglehold in office computers the world over. It doesn't matter that most people on lemmy will say "switch to linux", they're not companies, they're not bosses - these are the vast majority of Windows users and South America + Asia + Africa make up a fuckhuge market. Sure, Europe and USA have more money, but the rest have sheer numbers.

Another thing that matters a lot is that many decisions come from the top and are enforced. If Satya Nadella or the director of whatever bullshit says something, those below have to comply. If the order from above is "cram bullshit ads in Windows Explorer, this has the highest priority", that has to happen.

Regarding resources, having them and allocating them in a decent manner are not the same thing. The same could be argued about USA having trillions of tax dollars and having so many people living in poverty without healthcare or even basic education. Lots of that money go to keeping their armed forces. Microsoft is not too different, they have to pay people who keep their datacenters up, pay for the energy of said datacenters, maintain several other apps they have - oh, and the CEOs bonuses, because he's such a great leader who totally deserves billions every year!!!!! Of those 300bn, how much are they diverting for Windows in general? 50b? 20b? 1b? Of that, how much is going straight for security, bug tracking and quality assurance?

It's almost like most crypto currencies

The Trap Mechanism: By offering “free” foundational models, China aims to make the Global South algorithmically dependent on Chinese infrastructure, embedding censorship and surveillance capabilities into foreign digital architectures.

How is this different from what OpenAI, Claude and others are doing? They're offering "free" use of models, losing mountains of money, all in the hopes of becoming the sole names responsible for the infrastructure governing other countries.

Let's be fair, most big media outlets do little to no reporting when it comes to AI, they just take any and all PR pieces at face value, so this site doing the same, or being a paid mouthpiece, wouldn't be much of a stretch.

Meanwhile, US tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, which expected high-margin returns on their multi-billion-dollar AI investments, face a pricing collapse

This here shows how out of touch these companies are with their own fucking customers. How the fuck did they expect to burn 200+ billion dollars and get any ROI from AI? The demand is not going to grow into infinity and, contrary to what Sam Conman and others say, people would rather dump AI than pay per token usage when they can't even tell how many tokens they're burning. Even without China in the mix, they would crash and burn.

Once these nations build their digital infrastructure, government services, and private sectors on these models, they become dependent on Chinese cloud infrastructure, updates, and regulatory frameworks, compromising their digital sovereignty.

This is true IF AND ONLY IF said countries decide to pay for Chinese cloud services. Which, in case anyone is wondering, is deciding to pay, dunno, AliCloud instead of AWS. It has nothing to do with AI.

Oh, and fun fact, many governments (nation, state and city) around the world have some data in USA datacenters, but USA good, so they definitely don't spy or steal any of that, for realsies!!!

As someone with a bit over 800h in Palworld, fuck Nintendo and their shitty attitude to Pocket Pair.

I like Nintendo's games, but I never in my life bought one legally, since they completely pulled out of Brazil after the N64. NES and SNES were gray market items, while the GameCube nobody really cared about, since the PS2 completely dominated the market. The Wii was similarly a gray market item.