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I’m quite surprised they actually allowed to stick unknown USB into computer they will be selling to their customers 😮

Could he be Linux guy perhaps ?

Bit better then when we mined coal or lithium since it’s so abundant we don’t have to fck up whole regions for it to get to the little bit here and there. Desalination makes sense, dried death salt lakes also seems logical etc. Salt is everywhere. People are even building artificial “caves” with salt for others to go breath salty air inside.

or don’t buy city car for intercity trips. Get li-ion powered cars or wait for them to make model with bigger range.

It seems to me that car in the article is relatively small city car. I can imagine that building bigger car with inter city travels in mind would also include an improved range.

That is the case with every energy storage though in some cases it’s more pronounced.

Now with lithium… are much much much more expensive

and explosive

Some people would call it counterfeiting but we won’t do that , right ?

It’s big corpo stuff. Once company grows over certain size left hand stops loosing sight of the right hand.
In other words one team gets task to make sure ads aren’t skipped ever, they don’t get rewarded for saying its dump idea but for implementation .
Later comes other team that gets task to fifure out why the hell electricity bill went up.
Then after that they figure out best way to save money is to reduce employee count.
Then after the adblocking sensation gets old, some one else responsible for perfomance comes with idea that rendering ads is inefficient and they will go back to popup ads.

It often doesn’t make sense and costumer service gets worse as companies grow so i wouldn’t be surpriced by something like this at all.

It’s mostly true but i can imagine them trying to render the ads directly into video or something to make it unakippable. Just like plain old TV ads.

To my surprise it actually works.
It’s kind of tactic of mass promotion and is expected that hundreds of folks will not give a damn but one in many will click on the ad.
Also companies (at least i did when i had to use it) often only pay for clicks or even for successful install of their apps so it’s much cheaper than e.g. classic tv spots where they have to pay for a time regardless ofeffectiveness.

I don’t know about peer2peer but decentralized alternative exists. e.g. peertube

• they don’t have Alphabet’s backing

Rossmann tested it in latest video. No difference between browsers. And that dude is strong ad block and none Google browser supporter.

Maybe they are not doing it to move to cleaner water but maybe they were promised more fish if they do by certain fisherman conglomerate. But i could be wrong.

Or they made enough and got better / same offer to be able to risk it at MS.

For my region it’s one time fee 9k $ “only”.
It is hilarious given the fact you can’t legally use it so it turns into better break asistent 😅

Isn’t like half of MS ecosystem online only, even MS Office and Teams work via browser. Everything else works out of the box on my Linux Mint ( recommended for Windows to Linux switching users with super frindly forum ) And you can always dual boot.

That part i agree. It’s not that unrealistic with their budget .

It’s not amaterish anymore than GOG or Steam giving out free games back in the day. Even before it used to be magazines with free games on CDs. I still have these games in my libraries. It’s widely used strategy by bigger business to start new departments or even child companies. It’s why they say money makes money.