Well, they run Afghanistan and af is the country code. They picked a domain that they thought was cute, funny or clever and didn't consider longevity or risk. It's on them. If I make a website. I won't pick a silly extension that won't survive long.
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If you're on the country code, you open yourself up to risk. ml has been a risk before.
Your headline is misleading though. Taliban didn't kill it. Admin did.
You tell those people who left good jobs and now need this to put food on their table and pay the bills. You have the empathy of a CEO.
Good luck. It's a stressful time. I hope you get yourself sorted in whatever you plan to do.
But the interim CEO led the redundancies. The common factor in all of this is the board. The CEO just does what the board are pushing for and sign off on. Ricky is bad and not a good man by any stretch of the imagination, but he was less bad 2/4/6 years ago for a bit. He's just the hatchet (yes) man doing the business of the big shareholders.
The next CEO will likely be following the same play book. Without a change of board, it's still an evil company. Ricky was just the fall guy that they bin off so naive folk buy into the fact it's "all fixed, and back to old Unity".
The great advise right now, is stay away from Unity. You have Godot, Armory3d, and hell, even Epic run Unreal Engine is better.
You can always start sooner and dual boot on Linux Mint to get familiar test your usecases. I have been dual booting and haven't logged into Windows in over 6 months. Gaming is pretty good for many games on Linux.
I tried a long time ago on Mandrake or Mandriva, cannot remember. Didn't stick and eventually after trying to use Windows 10 on a HDD, Linux Mint welcomed me with open arms. Now duel booting on OpenSuse but haven't started Windows in 6 months. I just don't need it anymore. Thanks to the Wine and proton teams!
2.6.9754?
Google has been dreadful for a long time and do not care. They only need creators so they can milk the content and take the lion share of the revenue.
YouTube are pushing more and more adverts so people are more likely to pay them. Straight up manipulation.
I wouldn't pay for Youtube...
That sounds like a great education setup. Hope we mirror that in the west.
Maybe just buy the games they play recently then, you'll be quid's in and not tied into a rental contract.