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Also, this is my new signature line, so thanks.

You’re welcome. I appreciate you helping out with normalizing signature lines.

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Nice off-topic comment. Pretty sure by now everybody is aware of that (and other posts) on the topic of using a license.

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One of the worst things about Capitalism is that many a time it’s cheaper to do the wrong thing, than the right thing. It promotes doing the wrong thing.

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Costed insurance 28 thousand dollars for a procedure that normally costs a couple hundred at most (tooth pull).

Would a doctor do a tooth pull, or a dentist? I don’t think it’s a reasonable expectation to expect a doctor to pull a tooth, but instead a dentist would do so.

Also, one thing you have to realize is that they don’t look at the cost just at the atomic per incident level, but they look at it through the whole life of the customer/patient.

They play the odds, and they do literal risk management, when deciding how to spend money and when to spend money, specially for big money spending like operations.

So in your case it might have been a matter of a risk management decision, of the odds of you getting better without having to have the tooth pulled and spending the money to do so would be good, but you just got unlucky.

Cost money/time to cure people. Cheaper to just manage conditions.

I really doubt they’re wasting time astroturfing a Linux community on Lemmy.

A bots (not human) time is very easy to waste, and if your product is having problems right now, one of the first things corporations would do to protect their profits is to try to reshape the narrative away from the problems, from the negative final spotlight on your product.

And finally, as I’ve linked before in this conversation, Microsoft has a long history of using FUD.

You’re not going to convince hardcore devotees with a meme.

They’re not directed just towards the ‘hardcore the devotees’, they’re also directed at the person who’s considering moving, who’s trying to do some research about it, and does searching about it, and then finds the memes/communities.

Stopping potential switchers before they switch is a powerful thing to do to preserve your products/profits.

And if you do these memes/messages often, and if they send a certain message/narrative, you would definitely introduce FUD into the people who would consider moving to Linux.

Pay attention to the meta.

That’s what we call a conspiracy theory

Why? You honestly don’t believe that corporations never try to manipulate the narrative/message for their benefit/profit?

Early Microsoft was well known for wielding the FUD factor.

Ah, how could I have forgotten the legion of MSFT contract employees scouring… fucking… furaffinity for that sweet, delectable anti-Linux propaganda lmao

Because having bots backed by AI and a preset list of sites/forums to post to would be way too much of an effort and impossible to automate/do, right? /s

(And for the record, mentioning ‘bots’ for the second time now.)

Because Microsoft cares so much about an 18.6K-member community called “linuxmemes” on a small federated Reddit alternative known for being filled with die-hard Linux fans and furries?

The company a corporation would hire to do that sort of thing would use a shotgun approach to the redirection postings. With bots it would be easy for them to do.

When I see these kind of posts I can’t help but think that maybe they’re being made by people who could be astroturfing for another company and it’s OS, in a negative way, to redirect the narrative.

The problem with that meme comic is that it doesn’t state which distro the fox was using, as far as the level of supported it requires.

Everyone who uses Linux knows that there are some distros that require more ‘tender loving care’ by their users than others.

It only lights the ceiling up, you still need additional lighting for anything you want to do. And halogens are not soft lighting either.

I see you’re in full body-contact mode with others on this discussion, and I don’t mean the pile on, but I honestly wanted to ask you a follow-up question to your statement that I quoted.

What you stated is not my experience. My house has light color painted ceilings, with no popcorn, so when the light goes up it bounces off the ceiling and gives a warm glow to the whole area.

I don’t see it as wasting energy, just diffusing the light in all directions, without having to have an explicit device in between the light and you to do the diffusing (like what they have in the film industry).

And I say this regardless if it was using halogen bulbs or LEDs. With halogens since the light diffuses it does affect a somewhat soft glow to the whole room. Personally I like LEDs better where you can change the warmth level of the light that it emits, but still, the act of the photons bouncing off of light color ceiling and diffusing does give that warmish glow.

I understand if you don’t want to respond, as you spent a lot of time in this conversation already, but I honestly would like to hear your opinions about my thoughts that I just elaborated on.

Love me some early evening daylight though. Nice warm but not hot cruise/drive with the windows and the top down on the car.

It’s funny reading this, because the way I heard the story was as a railroad story.

The train engine wouldn’t run. The expert was called, he arrived, and after inspecting the train engine, knew exactly were to apply a little bit of oil to make it run again. His bill was challenged as being overly expensive, and he countered with them paying for the knowledge of where to apply to oil, not the oil itself.

There’s like all these different versions of the same philosophy of the story

I sense a theme, when it comes to the sysadmins.

Everyone who is #ProudlyAsshole keeps ignoring and/or skipping over the fact that in these scenarios that are being discussed that we’re talking about publically shared resources that are in short supply, be it a table in a crowded restaurant, or a parking space at a huge complex.

It really is rude to hog a shared resource. Use it, then move on. Quickly.

His response to Linus was interesting to read.

Oh and especially this comment further down in the conversation…

As it is, I feel like I have to waste my time checking all your patches, and I’m saying “it’s not worth it”.

I’m basically done with this. I never said I was a VFS guy and I learned a lot doing this. I had really nobody to look at my code even though most of it went to the fsdevel list. Nobody said I was doing it wrong.

Sorry to have wasted your time

It shouldn’t take 20 panels to tell a joke.

Seems like it’s not telling a joke, but instead making a statement about Humanity.

If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.

But you will see the event happen though.

It’s a matter of if you can identify who the perpetrator is or not, but at least that due diligence should be done by police, looking at the person doing the crime and see if they can be identified.