There’s a pretty massive difference in scale and impact here…

And you can’t have this with open standards…?

The question is whether they have the same iron grip, or if they would eventually fall

Do… do rocks just spontaneously appear in the ground in his world? Like how people used to think frogs came into being

Are you ok? Are you talking about just the whole process of waking up, or that waking up means facing the world once more?

I’ve gone days after an interaction with a cashier or similar (i.e. someone who will have forgotten our interaction two minutes later) thinking about how the phrase I used was dumb or weird.

With people I know it’s even worse. I get “remember that time you said that weird thing” a year later… it sucks.

Don’t put this on the rest of us. Most of Europe has no ill intent towards Cuba, we’d be happy to see them grow into a prospering nation, ideally without sacrificing too much along the way (like essentially giving control of their economy to the US or China).

But if the current giants die, new giants will arise from the existing smaller studios, no? There will always be a need for the next FIFA, F1, COD, whatever type of game, and someone will step in to fill that need if EA and the rest die, I imagine.

Why wouldn’t it be able to? That’s just a matter of which laws are enacted. And considering government is responsible for proposing and enacting laws, well…

If this bubble bursts the hardware market will be… interesting to say the least

Nevermind Trump, he’ll be dead from his shit living before he can stand trial. You guys need to deal with everyone else, all the enablers, collaborators, co-conspirators

Yeah, it’s so tiring. Search for something, entire first page is useless aggregator sites, containing nothing about the actual topic other than keywords. Waste of time

Are you telling me they ever knew how to build Windows?

There are a handful of EU cloud providers. In addition, at least some EU countries have what amounts to a governmental cloud provider, providing services to government agencies and ministries.

No, please, stop spreading disinformation.

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They’re doing their “research” with Grok now.

Is that why I make a pretty decent sysadmin? Because I’m a terrible coder? 😅

Well, at least it gives us a common language… I’m not sure the discussion would go so well if I was speaking one of my other languages to you. Enjoy your evening, or morning, or whatever it’ll be on your end

Fair enough, there’s nuance here as with a lot of these things. I used to work in banking IT, I’ve seen some parts of it. It was just the blanket “regulations = bad” sentiment I reacted to, though I see now that wasn’t the intent from your side

They left the union

Regulatory bullshit? I’m quite happy with the fact that I can generally trust my bank not to fuck me over in a hundred different ways, thanks to all that ‘bullshit’