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Precisely. Tell it to the marketing director, you can watch him go hairless in real time.

Exxon is still alive and well, so there must be something there.

The EU is NOT a federation.

That, and the misconception the European countries are as a group in some sort of hunt to be the global number one, whatever that is.

Europe is not one country, nor is it just the EU, which itself is not a federation (people abroad seem to keep somewhat ignoring this important aspect). For the time being, we're not united under one flag, it's just a symbol of peace really. We're (mostly) happy neighbors, despite all the issues, despite proclamations by EU leaders on CNN.

Exactly. It’s difficult enough to cope with the future, let alone the past :)

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It's not the point. Lawyers tend to puff their smokescreens, convincing people antitrust agenda is difficult. It isn't. Once you start eating a certain amount of the pie, the rules of the game change for you, and you only, because you become too strong, causing imbalance and threatening stability.

I'm sure LinkedIn's legal department employs an army of antitrust specialists frequently dealing with accusations from their competitors. That's a good thing.

There's one position you never wanna be in: When you don't have a choice, and it doesn't matter whether you're a company or an individual. Autodesk is one prime example of a long-term nasty sales behavior significantly distorting the market. Last but not least, democratic governments around the globe have been failing to enforce these laws, not to mention these are in many cases too permissive in the first place.

And you would've been right. I'm still worried about their sanity to this day. Btw it's not just devs, most regular users I deal with on daily basis hate it (be it Teams or whatever), they just don't know why it's such a crap. And they don't have to.

Not everyone is into games. Although I agree with the criticism here, there's at least two areas where comparable software simply does not exist on Linux/BSD:

a) Spreadsheets. Not talking about simple stuff here, Libre/OpenOffice is a joke when it comes to more advanced stuff, and whether we like it or not, the world is literally running on spreadsheets. Google Sheets is okay for less demanding tasks, Apps Script is a huge plus of that platform.

b) 2D graphics and photography software. Adobe CS is unfortunately still irreplaceable, even 20 years later. Again, I'm talking about professional graphic design and photography work (and workflows). Yes, there are masochists trying to do DTP on Linux. Yes, people think AI will replace those jobs. Neither will happen in the foreseeable future. Take typography as an example of such a highly specialized craft. Which is why Adobe (and some others) can afford to be so damn aggressive with their policies.

Wine doesn't cut it. I often wonder if anybody really uses it for anything except messing around.

Hence the only solid alternative is macOS.

On the other hand, all this also means opportunities... :)

This is one of the main reasons I use Pop! on my Thinkpad. Their power management works great out of the box, I get three times the battery life compared to Win 10. Suspend often doesn't work properly, but to me, that's a minor issue, likely hw related.

While I agree with you, you're missing my point :) I was talking about procurement practices.

Sadly, I doubt anybody's going to beat Salesforce and other crap such as Workday unless it's the same crap selling under a different name. Corporate people want their featurez.

It's been well over a decade since I last dealt with Excel, but I remember you could actually query the data with SQL without opening the file, like you would with any flat-file db. If the size is the problem. It was poorly documented but I'd done it a few times and it worked really well. The best part being it was simple, fast and worked even with locked files. Otherwise I don't understand the question.

Well, if you live in the woods, eat raw meat, fight for food and life, I am sure your immunity is strong enough to deal with germs and viruses waiting for their host in raw milk (if you're really into it, try raw goat milk instead). I am no city person, spent my childhood on a farm and even my granny wouldn't drink it unpasteured, which you can easily do yourself by the way, that's how stupid these people are.

Moebius doesn't sync unless the app is in the foreground, or at least I haven't figured out how to make it work. I don't sync much to iOS, just KeePassXC db and some other stuff, but still, it's annoying.

We invented the concept of right and wrong, for a reason. Or true and false, same thing. It's useful. The experience of my own existence - and the assumed irrefutability of it - is based on features beyond my control. How do I make my heart beat? No idea. I just do. Is logic itself, like science, not based on observations? Anyway, nice conversation!

While I see your point from my human perspective, what we call logic is directly dependent on the product of the system it emerges from, meaning our brains are inherently limited, hence cannot be trusted. Cogito, ergo sum is a meaningless statement in this context. Take quantum mechanics for example. Makes all our logic go away.

The thing is, I'm not sure how much an actor emerging from a system can learn about the system. Not saying we can't, 'cause I don't know, nobody does. It's just intriguing in it's own way.

In other words, we don't know shit.

I disagree that he humiliated the program, or the people behind it, which such a statement implies (although I do respect your conclusion). I've been following Destin for years and this guy genuinely cares. It's incredibly difficult to come up with a constructive criticism without offending people and he did a great job doing just that. He was humble, yet firm, well prepared and brought a fresh perspective to the table. Whether the stakeholders will acknowledge that is up to them. Hats off to the guy!

Every time I listen to Sir Roger speak, I wonder how much he keeps to himself. He is such a gem.

No, you win.

Congrats. You win. Unless you are willing to accept the simple fact it's a network of people, made by people, for people, in which case... well.

There is no "better" or "worse" internet. It's just a network.

Isaacson's Steve Jobs. It's incredibly well executed in terms of writing and structure. A piece of art.

Whenever I'm on the purchasing end working for a larger org, it is one of my initial requirements that the potential business partner is willing to extend their trial period, sometimes "indefinitely" (i. e. without an initial spec, cause I gotta talk to teams while getting familiar with Foo myself). I don't think anyone has ever refused, quite the opposite. But if they did, they're automatically off the table, unless they're a big deal such as Autodesk. They usually are not. I've done it a few times as an individual, with the same result. Hence I don't pay too much attention to whatever they say on their website.

SAP, Salesforce and Workday came straight from the devil himself.

> That's just a different way for some people to complain that someone, somewhere, is having fun that they don't approve of.

Yep, it ain't their business, period. It's like talking trash on people who like making pottery.

"You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed."

I'm doing pretty great, thank you very much. Haven't seen an ad in decades, my spam folder is empty and on average, I get one annoying call a year. What bothers me is the declining quality of Google Search results.

I don't get it. Who gets to say which 10 % ain't crap?

"If you cannot make a web application work without JS, it doesn’t belong on the web."

Except this often means Electron. Dunno which is worse.