Does anyone has an easy way to put windows 98 sounds on Linux? I would love to have it for one day (and probably revert after, just enough to deal with nostalgia)

I believe right now there are discussions about it on Europe to adopt more FOSS projects. The biggest problems I see happening here is who effectively maintains this, as well who gives the money (and incentives) to keep the projects alive. As of now the German government does have a program for the incentives (do not recall if they do the people’s part). Hopefully it becomes more wide and clear how this will be going forward.

Also, I do not think it would be such a small win. If anything is very significant. If you can change at that stage the tools used, eventually propagates further into the working force at some point.

This comment of the lady taking the picture really reminds me of the early Nazi era regime where people were hunting for undocumented Jews. This makes me incredibly sad to see history is repeating itself yet again.

You mean the arson connector? Shout out to dawid

I was in a very similar situation not too long ago, and my solution was also to just have a spare ssd, install windows on it, make the update and then go back. I tried to use a pe version of windows, as well a full blown windows on a USB. These solutions just didn’t work as expected, somehow the update would always fail. Windows on a proper ssd worked

You do have a good point that at a certain point it is not possible to have assurances as in values. However, there are other assurances that can be even more important, such as, contractual ones. If they do not have the proper assurances at that level too up to a certain point, then everyone is highly blindsided on the c suite.

But my biggest point has to do with burning a massive bridge, the consumers, and take a dive into this nonsense.

You can always try second hand market if in your region is somewhat healthy. I am not entirely sure what is your use case, but for work related and studies I would advise to get a lenovo thinkpad of some kind. Durable machines overral and can be get for decent prices. Other enterprise level laptops also work

You are not wrong about the reallocation part. However, if you see the actions from micron (fuck you micron BTW), they are going all in and having a shit storm in PR on the consumer side. If they are taking these risks without proper assurances, then they are utterly deranged

For the dram unfortunately won’t be possible to use it in the consumer space, at least not in the current form. Hbm is really server stuff, and as is, you cannot repurpose it. As for the GPUs, maybe they can be used for the consumer space but I am not entirely sure the specs would be wise to use it at home, since they need some very serious cooling capabilities, as well electricity consumption. Biggest winners of this pop in my opinion would be anyone who need cheap server rack stuff.

As long am4 and 12th gen survives on these dark times we got chances of getting through this

And if the reminders are not set on a mailing list and you have no one looking at that, someone failed hard

A lot what you mention is for sure true. My problem usually is deferring infra work to people that should not do it. More often than not I see so called “devops teams”, and once I see the elements on those, is very clear people that are actually for infra are either insufficient, missing, or straight up not enough permissions to do stuff. Yo would be shocked how many times I hear managers say " ah well, I bet one ofb our developers knows how to do infra work"

There are tools to actually remind you to do this on a timely fashion… Also, some of them go as far as doing auto renewal. Is this such a hard thing?

Pretty much yes

Did you try to run the native windows version and see how it works?

The biggest problem I see on this case is basically the guy on the top calling these “people” an “opportunity” and then go after people that were actually doing something about it.

Basically the ceo is an enabler, and probably a pedo too. Pedos will go wherever kids are. Its up to the platforms and parents to also shield their kids

I can tell you one thing: this would not stop Nintendo layers if it was a Nintendo game, and they would be foaming from the mouth eager to take action

Which begs the question: if you, as a company, do not want to support the device on systems not on the short list, why not open source the main driver and let the people figure out how to make it work somewhere else? Is this such a stupid thing to wish for?

One of the biggest problems right now is AI=LLM which could not be further from the truth

I still find in general super creepy that anti cheat systems (most of them) insist on having kernel access instead of using, you know, actual statistics and machine learning.