At Microsoft/King/Activision? That sort of seems like going to the desert for a drink.

What did they think was going to happen?..

Tape drives will be expensive and likely beyond overkill for this. I’d recommend you grab a blue ray DVD writer and use that instead. The discs are generally shelf stable for 25 years and hold about 50-128GB depending on the disc. Duplicates are cheap, storage is relatively easy, and it doesn’t require constant upkeep/power like a hard drive would. Downsides? They just stopped making the discs, so they’ll grow in cost over time. That’s about it that I can think of.

The cruelty is the point.

Every government should have a public competitive corporation in every aspect of infrastructure. Cloud, water, etc. If they’re going to free market it, they need to stoke competition.

Wiring your wallet to an api call does do wonders for ruining any potential peace of mind you might seek.

Tone Def sounds like a convient excuse.

You’re also going to have higher costs from a company offering something open and free, because they’re not hiding costs from you. Proprietary hardware vendors consistently use methods to hide cost from consumers. Oem licensing deals, update costs, making up the money on the repair side. List goes on. End result? In this “free” market, a proprietary company will always be able to offer a lower selling price.

It does inherently mean more expensive when it comes to hardware and technology, the specific thing we’re talking about?.. Feel free to do research if you’d like. System76 is very open with this information, as is the open source hardware community in general.

System76 uses core boot and open source components for as much of the system as possible, you’re inherently going to pay more for this. It’s not what is being offered to you by another seller under the name “laptop” which you or the community writing your software has to reverse engineer, and in the category of products that it lives within it could most certainly be considered affordable, especially if you take into account the longer useful lifespan afforded to you by repairable open-sourced components.

People are a bad judge of their own skill and overrely on tools and assistants when present. See also: car adas systems making drivers less skillful. More news at 11.

Ban might be a bit much, but we’re using tariffs and taxes as a confrontational trade war measure. Might as well use them in return and funnel the proceeds into homegrown solutions that can compete legitimately.

I’ve seen dudes wrap their cars in this 😂

I’d definitely take grandma over this goof.

To be fair to bottles, they cité that even their hosting costs are usually barely covered, so I imagine it’s running on a pretty lean/Foss dev budget already.

Double yeah

Yeah…

It was just charging infrastructure and reasonable range designs that were needed all along?! Who could’ve seen that coming.

Actually. We’re starting a new tax just for solar and wind installations while boosting funding for petroleum and coal… 😩 I’m so fucking tired.

They’re different in their implementation. Zigbee automesh is more of a centralized router-hub model with self healing relying on routing tables. This caused significant issues for me. Thread is true automesh with all devices acting as a hub in a hub/spoke model, so there’s no centralized routing table to act as a single point of failure.