No publicity is bad publicity I guess?

I thought the same. And watching the second video it’s still impressive, but much more realistic.

Also, once solution to avoid having so many cables: the batteries last just enough for the promotional video.

I’ve blocked 5 different alt accounts already…

That’s why I said around these parts. Back then there was a lot more regional fragmentation.

Around these parts in the 2000s, MSN Messenger was what literally everyone used. Then Microsoft bought Skype and decided to shut down MSN Messenger. Then they also ruined Skype. Microsoft just can’t do anything right despite making so much money. It’s like they have no long term vision.

Yup. I’m always wary of people lumping anti zionism, anti Israel government, and anti semitism all in the same bag.

There’s definitely a spectrum, but I would hope creators themselves could do that.

Yes, absolutely, but we also preserve everything because separating the wheat from the chaff is too much work. For example, most people store all the pictures they take because it’s easier than selecting the ones we might want later. But we kmow some of them are useless.

I want to support tuxedo, as an European brand, but the last one I bought had such a shitty screen that got worse and worse over the years. They seem to have improved the hardware somewhat but the experience left a bad taste in my mouth.

True but at the dawn of computing we were too naïve. We couldn’t imagine people would record everything.

Eh. The Internet is too full of useless crap thst costs energy to keep alive. No one needs endless swathes of boring videos. If there are some valuable recordings there, then they can preserve those.

Listen, if you think a BRICS currency won’t be controlled by oligarchs, you’re just fooling yourself. But at least there would be more oligarchs controlling things, not just a few Americans.

I think the best outcome of a BRICS currency is that, like in the Eurozone, a common currency nudges countries to cooperate more with each other instead of fight, and this can have a broader positive effect on other countries.

A bit better than having a one single currency dominating virtually all global trade, but only so slightly.

Good luck changing that in the heart of the German auto industry.

That’s the problem of thinking of companies as people. Company operate like ruthless people people they usually responde to several stakeholders that all control the company like an ouija board.

I like to say that corporations will never go out of their way to be charitable. There’s always a bottom line, being it PR or direct profit. Even PR and Marketing spend has to eventually lead to increase in profit.

This is almost certainly the case. I also know Airbnb hosts do that all the time.

They specifically name and shame rust as the shiny new language of the day. It does make it seem like a personal grudge against rust specifically.

What sort of advise are they giving? I’m out of the loop

Unless those old farts die first