A: What did Xbox do?

B: It is my understanding that Xbox sales are hilariously poor. I doubt that it will take much to convince people to continue to ignore Xbox.

I get it for free and I can barely watch. T2 is way, WAY worse.

The Tennis Channel has live odds updates during matches so that viewers can place their bets with whatever gambling site is the sponsor that day. Genuinely sickening.

I always recommend FUTO for its privacy BUT although they do share/open their sourcecode to scrutiny, it is not licensed as free and open source software (FOSS).

I normally reply with a tux penguin but, is it really a Windows problem if the it’s the apps that aren’t optimized for shit?

No. First he ensured that family farms went bankrupt. Now he gives the major industrial farming corporations a massive check, but only after they paid him and his friends and family invested heavily. It is always a grift. Always.

Hello fellow Kermit, Gopher and Usenet veteran.

*Sad Larry Ellison noises*

Would you rather Larry Ellison own it? Because that was the front runner for the longest time.

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I work on “the grid”. There is no one reason, but I can list the main culprits I see.

• Decaying infrastructure
• Negligible investment in transport infrastructure (people tend to focus on production, as does this meme, when it isn’t the biggest issue)
• Negligible investment in data management.
• Datacenter supply infrastructure creation is being wholly subsidized by end users. When the energy company goes to the legislature and says “we need 17 billion dollars or we won’t be able to supply the city with power”, they neglect to say that the entirety of that new capacity and all of the previous excess capacity the system had, is now going to power up new datacenters. The legislature approves and the cost is rolled into the consumer’s bill, if not entirely then definitely in part.
• Significant fuckery in billing and estimation. This I cannot go into detail on but I can remind all of you that you have the right to request proof of your detailed power usage.

enshittification

For large volumes of data, nothing beats shipping a large external drive (with a fast interface) from location to location.