cbozeman

That was a feature, not a bug.

Yes. It does.

The Shield Pro is still the best all-around set-top box streaming device. It was always a bargain at $199 for the overpowered hardware it had under the hood, but after the hardware refresh and size reduction, it was a no-brainer. It was the only box that had a gigabit Ethernet port, which Apple finally put in their new device.

Nvidia will never release another device like it again, because the Shield and Shield Pro were meant as a foothold against Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft consoles. Now that Nvidia can make bajillions selling GPUs for AI, they won't even bother with a new Shield device, or if they do, it will be only marginally better than the current Shield Pro and will land with a total thud.

They're completely uninterested in gaming nowadays and that was their bread and butter until 2022/2023 or so when datacenter revenue finally eclipsed gaming. Now that AI revenue dwarfs everything else, there's no chance we'll see a kickass STB that makes others run in fear. Those days are over.

Well in fairness, the "G" does stand for "General".

It really is a masterpiece.

For a site chock full of logic-worshippers, we do seem to forget Occam's Razor too frequently.

My older brother and I were pirating software from BBSes before the World Wide Web existed.

Talk about being there when the deep magic was written.

LLMs have been of wonderful benefit to me for a variety of applications.

I'm unsure why you would want to the output to be less trustworthy and not more.

You can... you just need to make about $100,000,000,000 USD in profits each year, that's all.

Not even remotely true.

You're making the exact same argument everyone here is making, and that's because you're attempting to argue from technical parity / superiority. Windows isn't the dominant desktop OS because of it's technical superiority to Linux, it's dominant because of deeply entrenched compliance and industry reasons.

Healthcare, finance, legal, engineering (less so today, but still very sub-discipline dependant), and government all have very specific software needs that no one in their right mind will bother writing new software, or rewriting existing software, would do for 6% desktop market share.

EMR programs (Epic, Cerner, Meditech), Practice management and billing, Tax and compliance, Legal discovery and case-management tools, Niche hardware and it's control software

This is all the realm of Windows. Most of these applications are Windows-only (Win32 / .NET / ActiveX legacy), they're only certified and validated on Windows, and they're only contractually supported on Windows.

Even if Wolters-Kluwer rewrote the entire CCH ProSystem fx suite for Linux, now there's recertification, regulatory review, vendor retraining, staff retraining, potential issues with auditors and regulators, etc.

There's currently no upside large enough to justify: Vendor finger-pointing, Compliance risk, Training costs, Downtime risk

It's negative ROI all the way down.

Windows has to become so bad that switching to Linux for desktops overcomes all of the above.

Can you understand why someone would buy a $20 Mr. Coffee coffeemaker from Walmart and not a $2000 DeLonghi Eletta Explore superautomatic espresso machine?

Microsoft slowly becomes IBM.

That's "what then".

It's because Satya is worried about next quarter's earnings call, not what Windows looks like in ten years.

BillG had that big meeting with everybody at Microsoft awhile back and basically told them they had about 6-12 months to right the ship. Personally I hope they don't. Nothing makes me happier than arrogant jackasses being utterly destroyed by life, which is what will happen if they continue to enshittify Windows.

Satya seems to forget that Azure exists because of Windows. It's the deep integration into Windows that makes it worth anything, otherwise we could all switch to Linux / Mac OS X and run everything in AWS / GCP. You quite literally don't need Azure at all for anything if you don't have Windows-based machines.

Heavy sigh.

That's the joke, sir. Or ma'am.

Well he brought down his entire storage system. Twice.

I believe one time he had to bring in Wendell Wilson from Wendell Wilson Consulting, but more likely know to the Internet-at-large as the primary figure on Level1Techs YouTube channel.

I have no desire, nor inclination to dig through the thousands of videos LMG has produced on YouTube, but it's still up to my knowledge, and watching him fumble about with absolutely no clue is not only painful, but pathetic. Linus suffers from the same affliction many of my Ph.D.-holding friends have, which is that he believes because he knows a lot about putting together computers and electronics that he could handle building a large-scale data storage system.

These systems are complex, and to be well-built and maintained, they require domain-specific knowledge - no different than an OS programmer needs deep knowledge of C and C++, and increasing now, Rust.

It's a series of videos of someone way in over his head who should have brought in an actual expert - like Wendell from Level1Techs, or Patrick from ServeTheHome, from the get-go, instead of trying to do it himself.

Thanks to this website I learned that ABC 25 Waco TV (KXXV) has some incredibly good interlude music.