[2028] Apple announces that they will no longer sell phones to consumers, only rent them. “Our customers love the ease of monthly rental payments that never stop and we listened!” said one Apple exec.

His next “big idea” is bs prediction markets that he wants to push on 18-34 year olds. Get 'em started gambling young!

Well, one party seems hell-bent on getting rid of vaccines. No surprise they die sooner.

…while datacenters also get priority rights to water.

Shouldn’t that title read “Bibi blackmails idiot pedofile into global war that cannot be won”

The Matrix when Agent Smith is telling Morpheus that humanity is like a virus.

Once these countries leave, they’ll never go back. And then the rest of us get better alternatives to this enshitification model.

Thank you. I liked KDE when I played with Mandrake many years ago. Does that still exist? Maybe just dated the last time I tried to run Linux as my primary. I have “supported” Linux as needed throughout the years, but mostly through competent searches and general IT knowledge.

Easy?!? We’re talking about breaking 30 years of habits :). But thank you for your response. Remote/RDP because I travel as much as possible (digital nomad currently in the Caribbean) and want to connect home while I’m out. Why hypervisor? Work. I tend to spin up a clean VM for each client, and sometimes need to test things. And my media server has a hardware RAID, but needs to move off NTFS. Probably the first machine I move to Linux.

Thanks. I’ve had a lifetime subscription to Plex for more than 10 years and it works well on TVs and such for the few ppl I share it with (they’re all luddites). I also.may have mis-typed, I have a hardware RAID 5 off a ?Perc5 controller, but its NTFS and I would want to switch.

Thank you! Being an IT professional, I have many machines and will probably try more than one until I find my stride. I bought a new SSD for my media server so I can swap out (and go back if I run out of time) while I learn the new OS. I have two or three other machines that are ready for a change. My primary laptop may only get a Linux VM or two while I adapt.

And which flavor of Linux? I would assume I’d use Ubuntu, but I don’t know the pros and cons of any of them.

I want to switch, but I need some help. I need to be able to “RDP” into remote machines. I think that one is probably easy and built-in from decades ago. I also need to be able to setup a Hyper-V equivalent, to run other machines from my main laptop- haven’t figured that one out yet. And for my media server (Plex), I need to understand the best way to setup a RAID5 or better across multiple drives. Any recommendations on guides for a lifelong NT4 MCSE & current Azure admin? I am sick of Win11 (and 10, 8.1 was OK, 7 was better… they just keep getting worse)

The ‘Prosperity Gospel’ does not align with Christian views. But it exists to allow “Christians” (heavy reliance on those quotes) to believe that having immense wealth is a sign that they are one of the chosen. These are the types of mental gymnastics certain people utilize to allow horrible anti-Christian behavior. Soon enough, you see Republicans having a little prayer session before they give massive tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy while taking health care away from millions.

If their staff weren’t incompetent and understand SPF records, DKIM and DMARC, they wouldn’t be flagged as spam. But when morons who don’t understand the tech fail at using it, it’s not the systems fault for identifying it as garbage. Source- me, 25 years supporting email systems.

Sounds like a management problem. Have these issues been brought to them/have they done anything about it? ITIL is a good foundation to follow for how things should work. Define a service catalog, SLAs, escalation process, etc… in that escalation, at a certain point management should be made aware. If they are and do nothing, you need to look for another position, and if you can’t, find a way to deal with a broken system. If someone sends a ticket back to me after I have written clear documentation, I reply with the document asking what part they didn’t understand. No one likes getting throw under the bus, or doing the throwing, but if the system is broken, I start copying additional people on those kickback emails. CYA, always.

Power off the AI farms that no one wants anyway (except the oligarchs of course)

Anyone getting Gary Oldman monologuing in the Fifth Element vibes?