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I would rather it be Euro than Yen from China

Not really.

Why use a Chinese product when a domestic or EU one is better and safer?

Back then, the plebians did not fly as much as they do now.

I am a pleb and say this btw.

Rather a real website rather than a Facebook page.

I just use web chat as "harness"(lol) or interface and I have mostly switched to Gemini as the free limit basically never run out for me unlike ChatGPT and Claude.

Also impressed with Grok for some stuff.

>Because you would have to pay them French wages, which would make no economical sense.

So, same for any profession. Why have any jobs in the EU at all then?

>Morocco is just where lots of french-speaking call centers are located.

"just"?

Or is it deliberately done because it is cheaper?

Why not have these in France proper giving jobs to French people?

Learning is lifelong, in most trades. What are you on about? Especially in something vast as programming/SW/ops.

The BMI scale is useful. Yes, athletes and bodybuilders it may not be accurate for, but being on HN I think you are neither :)

Currently, I am at 20 BMI, for reference.

Okay, Europe is under attack by Iran. And Russia.

China has sinister intentions.

AND actively helps Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-ap...

I understand that you are a commie, but do not apologize for China.

They have 0 sources and acting in bad faith.

Welcome to the real world. One cannot be coddled forever.

EU is already under attack by Iran and has been for a while yet the american zoomers on TikTok/Reddit/here state everything is fine and Iran/China/Russia just wants to be left alone uwu

>The Swedish Security Service has established that the Iranian regime uses criminal networks in Sweden to carry out violent acts against other states, groups, or individuals in Sweden that Iran regards as threats.

https://sakerhetspolisen.se/ovriga-sidor/other-languages/eng...

>someone defending their country

Can be used to justify anything.

Regular Cold War people could not disclose anything to their families either...

Do you see all weapons companies as bad?

Is SAAB bad making JAS Gripen being soon used against Russia?

I find your and similar views to be very childish. And somewhat suspicious.

Who would benefit from the west investing less in weapons systems? It boils down to what side you are on honestly.

Did you actually manage windows updates properly with intune/gpo or just let it rip?

We have a competency crisis that will only get worse and worse. I myself am guilty of it. Modern life is too comfortable, there is no need to fight through and put in the hours to be an expert when you can do 50% and get 90% of the paychecke.

Pilots train to navigate without GPS. Or, rather, they should...

Well, somewhat.

It has been a while since I read a book on NT kernel - "Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft"

NT kernel was "supposed" to run OS/2 apps and Windows apps. But the NT kernel is of MS making, NOT IBM.

The connection to VAX/VMS is due to MS hiring Dave Cutler, who worked there before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler

As someone else stated earlier, the NT kernel is actually great.

I find Windows 10 and 11 really good once you tweak it a bit and remove some cruft and tweak regedit/GPO settings. Both for modern software. Not to talk about backwards compatibility, Steam games from 2009 run just fine. Windows is also the standard for online games with anti-cheat. Also, for companies, Excel is a must. Yes, still is.

The whole ecosystem of AD+GPO+ Exchange since 2000 is unparalleled, Novell had something like AD but AD won. That continues with Office 365 where it's not just an office package. It is Identity/accounts/SSO (Entra), MDM (Intune), EDR/"antivirus", Storage (OneDrive), Sharepoint (docs + storage), Teams (Slack + Zoom).

You can buy Okta, Zoom, Slack, Gsuite, an EDR, an MDM but at that point you are paying a lot more for your stack...

I understand if you are a smaller company, then Gsuite + Slack and Zoom is a good choice. But go over 100 people and it starts to not make sense.

I also hear developers liking their IDEs, both full VS and VS Code.

/IT admin

Only small companies here (North EU - Sweden) use Mac + Gsuite + Slack + Zoom as a stack.

Companies over 20 staff are on Windows laptops + Office 365 E3 or E5.

Android and iOS? Sure on the phones...

What "clients" are you talking about? Edit: Re-reading I think you mean clients as in general computers, not business clients. Yes, more of the world is on phones but that is due to cost and society (ipad/iphone kids or third world on android). Real work is all done on PCs/Macs.

Schools are on chromebooks for the kids and Windows or Mac for teachers.

>extremely aggressive bundle pricing

I mean it's a good deal. As you say, when a company goes above a certain size, it does not make sense to pay for GSuite + Slack + Zoom + RMM/MDM + Zscaler

Windows is still good for gaming PCs, and it will now handle and update itself reliably. No I don't need to hear anecdotes, I work in the IT desktop space. IT janitor monkey if you will. There is no way an enterprise will convert laptops to linux or chromebook.

You see it as malicious, but well, even Google have trouble in this space. Because it is hard.

I mean yes, same with Steam. Same with PS. GoG is the only DRM free ones.

I mean, kind of good maybe?

As someone not in the USA who loves movies, it is too easy to get sick of LA and desert locations everywhere.

He just mentioned her gender.