“There are no stupid questions, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots.”

The linked video by Real Engineering does some back of the napkin math and yeah… the numbers are so off anything remotely feasible, it’s hilarious.

They came out on top of 2008/09 as well.

Oh they see it coming as well, but unlike us, they have the levers and means to come out on top of it.

tbf, all their apps are called copilot now

Ups says it has 8 minutes of runtime, chop chop, get going!

Bad thing is, such panicky footgunnery tends to make it into long term policy.

Let’s call it a prolonged international exchange program.

Yeah well, count your blessings that your career isn’t 110% tied to whatever shit shower Redmond decides to turn on that month.

Conscious decision, true, but still.

What they have is already done developing and they are flush in cash. A company that creates an ERP for a specialized industry does not care, unless a huge chunk of their customers demand a change all at once AND are ready to pay for it. I mean, I understand the idealism but this is just one of those “if everybody just…” situations that, imho, holds back open source solutions because their defendants look a bit excentric from established businesses’ points of view.

I’m reading all these comments and I guess no one here works outside of academia or 100% IT companies.

Reality out there is, that O365 is so deeply integrated with other business related software, that it’s never going away. My company uses an ERP system that has maybe 200 customers worldwide. It is highly specialized for what we do. There is zero financial incentive for the manufacturer to support any other ecosystem. So they won’t.

Also the development department lets you borrow the current new generation prototype if you want and suddenly it’s all current tech.

We said that a few times, first it was the harddisk factories flooded in Thailand IIRC, then it was GPUs for crypto, now it’s this shit. Not much bursting, more like a chain of bubbles.

Oh, okay. Around here, those are only used for garden sheds, maybe.

What roof only lasts 30 years? I’ve seen even unglazed concrete tiles, the really cheap ones that were from the 60s and still fine.

Hm. My refrigerator I bought 18 years ago from a no name brand has a fan that moves air internally when the door is closed.

What kind of low tech refrigerator has that kind of uneven temperature distribution?

Have you ever used a proper, three phase induction stove?

So, how’s the freezer doing by now?

Led bulbs become warm after a few minutes. Not hot, but warm enough to identify if it’s been running.