And VMware goes for another rotation around the drain

The fact they won’t sell you a perpetual licence for a hypervisor you run on your hardware, is possibly the most ridiculous subscription model I’ve seen so far

It’s kinda wild this is a legitimate possibility

I was gonna say all this is going to do is make a load of people start using VPNs, who would have otherwise had no reason to. Therefore making the surveillance they want to do even harder

Not necessarily, been a little while since I checked on it, but my understanding was fuchsia was Google’s home grown replacement for the Linux kernel.

It’s in use already on some of their nest devices IIRC and there’s always been speculation that eventually they may introduce it as an alternative kernel for Android (or chrome OS, though obviously less likely now) one day

Lol bit of a blast from the past with the old logo in the thumbnail image

Well shit, I didn’t think the Jurassic park books would ever end up on my reading list but here we are

Huh, I’m today learning calligraphy and cursive not synonyms

Though we don’t really use the word cursive in the UK, we just call it handwriting or the slightly awkward “joined-up handwriting” if you need to be specific, though that’s pretty much only with kids learning to write

I thought he was casually carrying around a PS5 for a second there

Oh I’d somehow forgotten this era

That shit was in everything non solid for like 2 years

I’ll have to see if hypernormalisation is still on iPlayer

Edit: yes it is, well that’s not what I needed to discover at 1am with work tomorrow…

Siren song for those browsing with an internet connection of a geographically British persuasion: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c

Oh so you’re telling me that my storage unit is actually incredibly well optimised for space efficiency?

Nice!

That looks like a pretty cheap subscription fee for a country ~25%.

Mine is closer to actually half, though we get healthcare and a half decent social safety net with ours.

Happy to pay it because I know I’d not be where I am now without the stuff taxes pay for

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons

The US doesn’t deserve Dolly as a national treasure, she’s a treasure of the world

In spite of the USA we have today

How’s glasto, mate?

This is either satire or another case of conservatives being entirely unable to criticise anything without also broadcasting their kinks

People who knew what they were doing with computers used Netscape until it died, those people went to Mozilla suite and then Firefox (well, Phoenix then Firebird then Firefox). But that was a shrinking minority of people on the internet at the turn of the millennium.

Practically everyone else used IE (90%+ of web traffic at its peak) and continued to do so until Google released Chrome and shone a light on how little Microsoft had been doing for nearly a decade.

Dominance was dominance however they got it, and they pissed it away through complacency, somewhat similarly to what they’re doing now.

They had internet explorer dominance, they pissed that away

They had PC gaming OS dominance, they’re now pissing that away

Oh dear Microsoft, you had everything and you pissed it away again