That might have happened if he sought competing bids from experts, but he just funneled the job to his pool guy, who was out of his depth.

Article does not say what he thinks the mistakes were, I bet he doesn’t think they’re the same thing the crowd does.

Yeah, I drive an EV and will never go back to gas.

I mean maybe if I had a project car or something but even then my thoughts drift towards how I might swap an electric drivetrain…

Well this was entirely predictable and obvious.

Nobody needs that, they want that, and they want that because it’s fun for them and makes them feel good. I’m not judging.

Or the Yangwang U9 Extreme, maybe the fastest car in the world, looks amazing, and is an ev.

https://www.yangwangauto.com/en/car/u9-xtreme

Agreed, there are some really cool ev hypercars out there and Ferrari could have done that and gotten positive responses, but instead they made the most boring looking car ever.

I’ve been using kagi and even replaced the default search on my iPhone with it. Works great

That would be great! I cancelled my subscription and have been trying to buy direct for a while now.

Good on him

Came to say this, upvoted.

Well if you’re near the purchasing decision for m365 MSFT is a lot better at lying to you, coercing you, weaponizing lock in, and extracting revenue.

Fucking rich us demanding stability of others.

Yeah 80% the demo selection here is not representative of the population as a whole it doesn’t smell like, and I think a lot of people read the terms like equality very differently. Seems like it is possibly a pretty misleading survey.

Why the fuck would you use windows in mission critical spaces.

No clue

The streaming service pays them out of a pool proportionally. So he basically diluted the distribution from that pool, resulting in lower payments to everyone else.

The point is that they have no financial incentive to clean up or prevent bloat, so they don’t.

Linux doesn’t either, but the Linux community operates on principles and passion instead of financial incentives, and so thusly is not similarly bloated.

The goal of msft isn’t to be an efficient steward of your resources, or better enable the user, or to create a platform for game/app developers in hopes of creating a more attractive ecosystem for you.

It’s nothing like any of those things.

The goal of Microsoft is to maximize shareholder returns, and the best way to do that is to abuse their dominant market position while monetizing every aspect of their platform that most people will buy anyway.

The transparency is still painful for me. And I used to be able to two finger click on my apps app to see a list of all apps that I could quickly scroll to and get. Instead of that quick and easy interaction now I get a window that pops up and forces me to type search Params, and it always has the last thing I searched in there so I can’t just scroll. It turned a “two finger click, scroll, one finger click” activity I could do with a single hand into “click, click, hold backspace, type Params, click” activity that is way less convenient and requires both hands.