It’s more depressing than we weren’t paying for lunch

Because billionaires lobbied congress to reduce budget for public schools

Why don’t businesses do away with free and go to a completely paid model?

Let’s continue on this path of thinking: Customers already pay using their data. So if you want to show ads you have to pay customers since you are scrapping their data?

Ok then hear me out. Let free content supported by ads die out. Make everything paid.

Because Redhat has IBM hands shoved up through it’s ass upto it’s brains so it’s days are numbered.

Don’t underestimate IBM honchos to fuck up a good thing. Recently heard Redhat dropping dev support for a bunch of packages in fedora or something.

The moment someone fucks up… open source always brings alternatives. See: open office vs. Libreoffice… the bunch of firefox derivatives.

The AFD disagree with you

When you kill people who say otherwise… all there is left is people who praise you… either out of fear or out of stupidity.

I guess most people can’t afford (both time and money) to run an LLM just to have a saner browsing experience. So i suspect the key to adoption would be for the community to band together and spawn some LLM servers for the community backed by donations or other sustainable practices.

The future is probably once again crowd computing. We could probably use the federated network to distribute LLM requests from the community and load balance among those that are running LLM endpoints.

A fool and his money are parted

Seems like everybody like you wants to spend money without diligence when it’s the public money.

Proven methods of combating climate change are being ignored here. Hell, the government need not even invest in proven techs like wind farms and solar… they could put that money into modernizing the power grid and even that would be better than… whatever shit this is.

Oh I am thinking of them… how to murder shareholders in various unique ways… could be neat game idea too!

We already paid for the Internet though.

That’s like saying we should gouge out our eyeballs if we don’t want to see banner ads in real life. Fuck that noise.

I think I can distill many of the replies to this question in a few checks that may apply generally (exceptions abound, and i could just be wrong)

1. Are you intimately familiar (subject matter expert level) with the nasty outcomes of what you would be doing on a daily basis at this company? If yes its better it was YOU and not somebody else.

2. How much separation is there between what you do and the nasty outcomes? If you pull the trigger on a drone… I get thats unacceptable to some people.

3. Does not doing the activity make something else even more worse? (Frying pan vs. Fire dilemma)

4. Are you only doing this because there’s no other real choice? (Poverty)

So people never accomplished anything on Unix?

Microsoft terminal. It has profiles for each connection and Ligature support for fonts. Font rendering is good. Theming is nice.

Edit: in the linux world i like konsole and xfce terminal.

It’s PR by Microsoft. I am beginning to doubt the intelligence of many humans rather than that of ChatGPT considering these kinds of comments.

Billionaires have constantly stolen wages by not increasing wages in line with inflation for their employees. Most recent examples: Jeff Bezos, Fast food giants.

So you admit that you are lying

Where was the admission of lying? A lot of examples are already provided. You simply refuse to look at them.

It’s bullshit that you can’t see how corporations are suppressing wages and actively working against unions using union busting tactics. Corporates destroyed checks and balances in the U.S. so the consequences of their shitty practices is just a fine that can be considered cost of doing business.

Who else but Elon Musk, that promised a hyperloop so that the High Speed Rail Project in California gets cancelled.

Who else but the Tax industry lobbied for shitty income tax filing procedures so people have to pay to tell the Government what it already knows?

You’re either ignorant because of naivety or being deliberately ignorant… both stances make you look dumb.

Nobody can take seriously a person not remembering what they are even arguing against, like you.

Obviously people remember. It’s absurd you would even make that assertion. The trouble is, you are arguing in bad faith. So people are not willing to engage you any further.

What do you suggest? Only the state can have monopoly on violence? Only the government which is controlled by rich people can use violence?