[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 59 points 6 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 6 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 7 months ago

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

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

These shenanigans have me rapidly transitioning from “I don’t want to see your annoying ads” to “I don’t want you to make any money at all”.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 45 points 7 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 7 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 7 months ago

Wow, that’s a shock. RIP.

I’ll most miss the musicians spreading random delight. Those were always fun to watch.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months 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 33 points 9 months ago

Also knowing that you’re guaranteed to be “downsized” on the first day of the next party change in the White House.

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 68 points 9 months ago

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

[-] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months 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 57 points 10 months 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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