[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago

They need to make some money - infrastructure isn’t free, employees need paid, etc. they should be self sustaining.

They don’t need to be 2009-Google profitable though. That pipe dream needs to end. 3-5% YoY growth is plenty.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago

My 80 year old dad has been using a XUbuntu for years and never even noticed. The only reason he knows he’s using Linux at all is because he saw a news story about Windows tracking and asked about it. He was quite happy not to be affected.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago

Hosting a climate conference in an OPEC nation, not sure what they thought was going to happen.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

Well that puts the “Ethical Altruism” board members’ willingness to risk it all on such a wild dice roll in more context.

It’s probably lost their entire movement any influence on the future of AI research, but them’s the breaks.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

This is how you say “wait, shit, we fucked up” in Board of Directors.

Be interesting to see how many of them still have seats by Christmas.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Oh, are we acting surprised because we forgot all the people that got screwed exactly like this on Kindle books in 2009?

Welcome to digital media. If you can’t play it without some company’s say do, you don’t own it.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

This guy tries to exert way too much influence for someone who only won his last race because both candidates were under active criminal investigation.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Aid for Ukraine is almost entirely flowing through DoD’s budget (DoD sends weapons from storage, then buys new ones - this also helps end-run Dept of State export rules). DoD acquisitions don’t shut down with the rest of the government, they never have. Ergo, military aid to Ukraine will continue unabated through any shutdown.

Anyone in DC who’s surprised by this has no idea how a government shutdown works.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

I bought a new Brother laser printer in 2021 and it has no problem with third party toners.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

More mandatory overtime for her staff. She'll never know it happened unless one of her social media managers sees it on Twitter and mentions it to her.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Take off the masks, cowards.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

It never stopped. Hasn’t even really slowed down.

People need electricity. Renewables are great, but they don’t provide for the full generation need. Coal and natural gas power generation will continue unabated until a better (read: lower price for similar reliability) solution takes their place.

In my opinion, fossil fuel generation won’t take a real hit until the grid-scale energy storage problem is solved.

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