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Jawwal who are owned by Paltel.

It also spent the last few years making the problems out there worse. They are themselves complicit in this outcome.

There are no winners in this conflict on either side.

Think something is borked there. Mine doesn't do that.

I completely agree with your latter point after being a windows dev on and off since windows 3.0. It’s been one hell of a rollercoaster.

Running it already. Seems pretty solid. No compatibility issues. UI changes are fairly ok. Glad they got rid of launcher and merged it into spotlight.

Thinking? Plan?

Only thing going on is maximising capital extraction from the moat they created. End users no longer matter as long as the numbers keep going up.

Dacia Duster

Yeah and outside benchmarks you have to consider the power envelope and platform on top which is definitely out somewhere on its own.

This is how I roll. Turn up next to the £100k EVs at the office in my 15 year old turd.

I go on holiday 6 times a year for that money.

The 15 year old turd seems to go wrong less and cost less to fix when it does as well.

I’m currently enjoying a competitor in our market make a wonderful mistake in this area. They want all in on vibe coding and AI and announced to their customers that they’d rewrite their 25 year old rotting platform using it in 12 months.

6 months late and I know a clean up contractor who is making bank there with no hope of recovering it apparently.

They saw it as a way out from their cheap assery, lack of talent and lowest bidding outsourcer over the years and it’s a dead end. I wonder how many other projects are in this situation.

Bit more complicated here in the UK with salaries in academia. But in private sector I was earning 1.5x average mathematics professor salary before I even had a mathematics degree. And equity on top of that. Not the smartest guy in the room by far but the most useful.

I did consider doing a mathematics postgrad qualification but my IQ is high enough to realise I liked actually getting paid decent money.