Buelldozer

MSO and EXO have a value proposition that Cloud PC doesn’t and Cloud PC at minimum doubles the cost.

It was never crazy and people were predicting this since the 90s. It’s essentially a return to the dumb terminal & mainframe paradigm that was in use prior to desktop pcs.

Business’s will not adore this. Cloud PCs in M365 or Azure cost money, often as much per year as it would cost to just purchase a pc to begin with.

Read the legislation. It’s not just operating systems, its applications as well! All applications, there are no exceptions. Everything from GIMP to the EHR your Doctor uses to a custom Open Claude bot on Github. ALL of them.

You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis

That’s a depressingly probable reason even though you meant it as techno-babble. It is actually possible that the machine doesn’t have enough NPU power!

isn’t it time to get off Windows?

I’m already using Linux everywhere I can both personally and at work, heck even my work laptop is running Linux. The blocker on my work desktop is that the remote access tool I use multiple times a day doesn’t have a functional Linux version.

I could switch my work desktop over to Apple but I’ve never liked MacOS.

I’ll hate it because this already happens with links in MS Teams where despite having a high spec work computer it makes the system so sluggish that the mouse cursor won’t move smoothly for 15 seconds or so while it sorts itself out.

I mean I’ve already got a Core i7 with 32G of RAM and an NVME sitting on my desk so how much freaking horsepower is THIS little stunt going to take?

…but truth be told I think that is just propaganda boasting.

Perhaps but we do have more guns than people and a higher firearm death rate than anywhere outside of an active war zone.

It’s just the Cartels would bring about real terror with a message loud and clear “this happened because your government thought it be smart to attack us.”

Yes and I think they’d get a gun barrel shoved up their ass to deliver the message loud and clear “this happened because you came here to start shit.”

But the terror would go cross boarder.

Where the cartels would face Law Enforcement AND a population capable who are both capable of eliminating them. I’m not arguing for it to happen nor saying it wouldn’t be awful for Cartel terror to start happening in the United States however in the U.S. both our Law Enforcement and our population are capable of extreme violence.

I seriously can’t imagine the things I’ve seen playing out in Mexico over the last 48 hours happening here, at least not outside some of our very large cities and even then only for very short amounts of time.

As an example a cartel group trying to block roadways with burning vehicles is likely to get shot to literal pieces once people figure out what is going on.

A cartel pushing an overwhelming attack on Law Enforcement would result in a public call for help and hundreds to thousands of people with essentially unlimited arms and ammo would be there in minutes.

Shootout / killing in the streets? Sure those might work for a few hours, maybe a day, but after that 1/2 half of the country would be walking around visibly armed and ready to throw down.

My point here is that fights inside the United States would not end like they do inside of Mexico and that’s WITHOUT the US Military being involved. The United States is a violent country, always has been, and groups REALLY fuck themselves when they do something to get all that violence redirected at them.

This is an enormous “No Duh” to anyone who has been paying attention. Cooperation between Mexican Authorities and US NORTHCOM has been public knowledge for months now as is what they are doing and how they are doing it.

It’s also happening in areas where education HASN’T been defended or dismantled. It’s happening in areas that aren’t Republican controlled too.

Fuck MAGA with a moldy pine tree but blaming this problem solely on them means it can’t be solved because whatever is happening isn’t being caused by them.

Used to be a video on YouTube showing the whole process.

Article about the UK, comments immediately start talking about the United States.

Stop it.

SMR are for site or temporary power, not grid scale. On paper they’re a good fit for data centers and other localized power needs.

Getting a half dozen 24tb nas drives this morning was painful. They are twice the cost of last fall and most vendors, even big ones, only had one or two available. This is insanity.

+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.

I am doubtful that starlink had any measurable impact.

You can doubt all you like but there’s a lot of documented cases of Russia using SL on their drones and in their command bunkers, too many to be easily denied.

Are they telling us that superpower Russia…

Russia isn’t a superpower. In all ways but their nuclear arsenal they are at best a regional power.

As if Russia didn’t have it’s won satelites, cell towers they could build, which are line of sight, and other methods like sending signals over power lines.

Russia has very few satellites and perhaps only a handful of modern ones. They could build cell towers…and then Ukraine will blow them the fuck up, jam them, or listen to their comms. Signals over power lines? What power lines?

I don’t believe that Russia is dependent on Elon Musk’s shitty satelite internet, which by all accounts is worlds worse than fiber optics.

Again, what you believe may not match reality.

This has been predicted and worked towards since the 90s.

You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!

Combo of ADHD and living through the 2000s with Internet Explorer where ads often installed malware and viruses. If you DIDN’T use an Ad Blocker you were playing a game of Russian Roulette every time you opened a web page.

Popups, pop unders, blaring audio, malware, slow page loads…ads are a scourge.

Funny, I’ve been calling Flock the same thing.