They would have run it into the ground with mismanagement and a new chat application would become the popular choice within a year, while Microslop's new acquisition fades into obscurity, eventually to be depreciated and shut down my Microslop themselves.
As has happened multiple times already in history.
Because an 8GB RAM stick costs $9,000 and hard drives literally can't be had at any price, but this shitty thin client thing is only $49.95 + $10/month subscription. ($25 per month if you want it with ~~no~~ fewer intrusive ads.)
Coming soon, to a dystopian AI future near you.
I’m still petty enough to hope this effort is a miserable failure
I hope this is effort is a miserable failure ... because if it catches on, it could spell the end of desktop PCs in general as a consumer product.
Desktops will always exist, because you need the local processing power (and the cooling to support it) for certain professional workloads. But if everyday computing and even gaming becomes mostly done on thin clients fully dependent on internet servers, then desktops will become more and more of a niche, professional product. Which means they'll become more expensive and harder to get. Replacement parts will become more expensive and harder to get. A desktop PC will be an expensive industrial machine, hard to justify the upfront price of for an average consumer. (Especially when a cheap thin client with a "cheap" monthly subscription can do essentially all the same things.)
It may also slow the adoption of open-source software because these thin clients are likely to be locked down and not able to install any other software without putting up a fight, if it ends up being possible at all. And if most people get used to the paradigm of renting their computing power from the cloud, they'll be resistant to change that and go back to locally run software on their local machine that they then have to buy because their old thin client hardware can barely run anything, even if you do manage to install other software on it. (Imagine how hard it will be to convince someone to install Linux instead of using Windows if the first step of installing Linux is that they have to replace all their hardware with much bigger and more expensive hardware...)
Gotta find out if it's copyrighted, you know?
I'd say yes, but, you don't have a right to appropriate someone else's art as your own.
By all means, copy and distribute. Even modify and make derivatives. But no plagiarism, please. Don't take something that someone else made and then claim to have made it yourself without giving them due credit.
The launcher looks like a standard box on the back of a large truck.
Looks a bit longer/taller than typical? So I'm guessing these hypersonic missiles are some real looooooong bois. But otherwise, yeah.
Given the kind of incompetent fuckwits they've been hiring, that's not surprising at all, really.
ALL of them essentially.
The estimate I've found puts it at about 500,000 homeless people in the US.
With $500 billion, you could give each and every homeless person in the US $1 million. Easily enough to buy a house in almost every housing market.
And they will be right to do so. The Dems are fully complicit in enabling this.
Honestly, I think Kubuntu is slept on as a beginner's distro.
Yes, Ubuntu has its issues ... but those sorts of issues are really not going to affect a newbie much. And it's stable, easy to use, KDE defaults will be pretty familiar-feeling for Windows refugees, and it should be relatively easy to find help -- 90% of the time, if you just type "how do I _____ in Linux?" into ~~Google~~ Duck Duck Go, the results you find will be perfectly applicable to Ubuntu. Want to install 3rd party software that's not in their repos? In pretty much any software that offers a Linux version, the Ubuntu-compatible install method is the first one they list.
(Oh, and the installer is literally one click if you just let it do everything in automatic mode. No keyboard needed. The install image boots into a full GUI installer with mouse support, and if you want, all you have to do is click 'automatic install' and wait. Once it's done and reboots, you're in your new OS.)
Once you become an advanced enough user that you get annoyed by Snap packages or feel like you need more cutting-edge package updates ... well, then you should also be advanced enough to do your own distro-hopping.
Infected torrents have been found there
*laughs in Linux*
Which companies always are.
Look into how companies are actually managed. It's almost always an absolute dictatorship under the complete control of the owner and/or CEO, who gets the last word on everything and can fire anyone at will. Sometimes you'll have a board of directors or something acting as a check on the CEO's power and able to replace them if necessary ... but even then, that pretty much never actually happens. Their power is pretty much never actually checked.
Which is why I think "workplace democracy" should be the phrase leftists rally behind. The right has put a lot of work into poisoning and slandering the terms 'socialism' and 'communism', but 'workplace democracy' hasn't been attacked like that. And it sounds very good to workers. If you get to vote on what your country does, why shouldn't you get to vote on what your company does? After all, your company actually has a lot more effect on you and power over you in your day-to-day life. Why should some out-of-touch rich guy (probably a pedophile) get absolute control over the whole thing based on his fucked-up whims and vibes? Instead, we should have workplace democracy, where all employees get a say in how the company is run. (And then, without propagandized workers even realizing that they've done so, they've taken control of the means of production and enacted a form of socialism.)