Ah the times when you could accidentally buy twice as much RAM.

Those “many” then have no idea what open source means.

Isn’t it how all the databases work? Or maybe you should just enable cache for yours.

What makes it garbage? Compared to postgres

Removal of the “gen*cide” function.

I don’t know what is both funnier and more disturbing, removing the function, or censoring the word.

Did it help?

Installing windows for most of that time hasn’t been a thing people do

I remember reinstalling win95 almost daily because how it could break with just a power loss(which happened regularly to me then).

But then I remembered 20 years ago is when winxp was already 4 years old.

It does work for people who value their wellbeing more than they value the information they remember. For remembering stuff there may be some medical injestions before torture.

Well in reality they will use waterboarding or some other technique that ensures suffering while not being life threatening. There’s actually a great movie called Unthinkable about this.

It says “until” so you’ll be having plenty of time to remember it.

It’s KDE 4.2 though.

Do you need a test? They will.

You can use casefold option on ext4.

iptables is deprecated for like a decade now, the fact that both still use it might be the source of the problem here.

That’s great news. Will be waiting for it.

You explained it quite well, I just didn’t think you were serious.

Let’s go back to my original question. A company that’s dismantling itself for a quarterly profit. Obviously Microsoft doesn’t fit since they are doing it for many years now and are still going strong even if just on paper like you say.

So according to your analysis when will it be dismantled? Will they go down in 3 months as a punishment for the latest quarterly profit? Maybe a year? 5 years? Will it happen in this century?

Undoubtedly they conceded to Wall St pressure to sacrifice research and engineering funding to goose short-term profits

That’s an interesting statement. So let’s go like 15 years ago. What short-term profits were they pursuing? And how can you call them short-term when those profits lasted for so long?

Microsoft for 8 years now is a company that sells Linux and opensource.

Non of their divisions you mentioned were profitable for many years now(especially Windows), just look at their yearly reports. Only logical to get rid of them. Don’t agree with your Azure statement, don’t mind me, numbers don’t agree with it.

I don’t get why you wrote so much about gaming, Microsoft never was a gaming company. And frankly nothing important for gamers was lost with them buying those empty shells of game developer companies, then shutting them down.

I can agree on the AI hype especially with recent github news. But those are recent, we’ll have to see if that was bad or good decision.

Microsoft is doing pretty well so I wouldn’t call it “dismantling”, it seems to be working for them.

Fair point. Has meant IT companies.