Classic Liberal, yes.

You are not spending tens of millions annually and thus Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about you. They literally would not piss on you if you were on fire.

I dunno, at least some of planned datacenters ARE doing that. For example an absolutely ENORMOUS Solar Farm is being built in Cheyenne, Wyoming for another Microsoft DC. For a previous MS DC a big ass wind farm was built. Meta is building a fuck you sized DC in Cheyenne and recently inked a deal with Terrapower for a natrium powered reactor.

I dislike having to defend these assholes but the Green Energy thing has been done, is being done, and they have definite plans to do more of it.

I’m cautiously optimistic. This looks like a reasonable use of tech that doesn’t seem to have so many of the spyware elements that other glasses (like Meta) have. There’s no external camera, no screens (only lenses), and no mention needing an app or internet connection.

As someone in their target demographic I’m interested to find out what is actually released and would consider purchasing a pair.

Motors used to be BOLTED together, now they are GLUED together.

50 years ago you were working on brushed motors with relatively sloppy tolerances, less torque, and more electrical consumption. Today’s brushless motors are faster, stronger, lighter, more efficient, and designed to higher tolerances.

It used to take me a half hour to change the clutch slave cylinder on my truck. Now (newer truck) I have to PULL the transmission to do that.

Very few vehicles in the U.S. have a manual transmission and the prevalence of them is decreasing quickly in all western countries. No matter how much we may prefer manuals it’s inarguable that modern automatics get better fuel economy, are easier to operate and are often stronger than their manual equivalent.

My point here is that often the same advances that make things better make them more difficult to service.

I actually don’t know. I’ll have to try it.

Just need a way to admin Active Directory from Linux and I’m set…

What’s wrong with Active Directory Web Services? It’s installed on every DC by default since WS2008R2.

You could also install PowerShell on your Penguin box and do tasks via command line.

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Installing Collabra Office on a Windows PC requires the use of the Microsoft Store. Ick.

It’s been that way for a year now.

It’s been that way for a year now.

IIRC this happened in January of 2025. The rebrand obviously failed because I don’t know a single person who calls it anything other than “Office” or “Microsoft Office”.

Maybe the marketing language is technically deficient but the result of the technology speaks for itself; devices keep getting faster AND more power efficient.

Meanwhile it’s so damn hard to do that there’s only one company making the machines that can pull it off and only one company that can successfully execute the process.

This stuff is ultra pimpin no matter what the marketing department calls it.

I’ve been strongly considering adding a whole home humidifier and after watching I’m going to buy an Aprilaire 700 like his and do the same upgrade to it!

Cloudflare has a ton of services in their “free” tier and there’s a lot of confusion in here because people toss around “Cloudflare” without specifying which service they are actually talking about.

If you are using Cloudflared (notice the d) with your own LE Cert then you are probably fine.

The term VPN is pure marketing bs. What is called VPN today used to be called Proxy Server.

Perhaps if you are only talking about the consumer level stuff advertised on TV. Otherwise I can assure you that “Virtual Private Networks” are a real thing that have absolutely nothing to do with Proxy Servers.

On down the comment chain you mention "…our computers would not see each other and would not be able to connect to each other via that service. " as some kind of test of whether a thing is a VPN or Proxy Service but what you’re missing is that this is a completely common and advisable configuration for companies. In fact Zero Trust essentially demands configurations like this. When Bob from Marketing fires up his VPN to the Corporate Office he doesn’t need access to every server and desktop there nor does his laptop need to be able to access the laptops of other VPN users. They get access to what they need and nothing more.

Hell the ability to access the internet via the tunnel, called Split Tunneling, is also controllable.

It’s that ability to control where the tunnel terminates that allows consumer VPNs, like Proton, to be used the way they are.

So while private individuals absolutely do use VPNs as an ersatz replacement for Proxy Servers they are nowhere near the whole use case for VPNs.

Thanks. It’s there and its enabled but it doesn’t do a darn thing. :(

How do I enable this?

This is why many of the expensive Dock options from HP / Dell / Lenovo, etc come with a non-detachable USB-C cable. You can’t have the “wrong” cable because the one you need isn’t removable.

Nah, I don’t blame you. The list of crap that I had to allow under “required” to read the article was preposterous.

But why does the HDMI forum not want a open source 2.1-compliant implementation?

To my knowledge they’ve never officially said but you can be sure that it has to do with Content Protection and that means DRM. An Open Source HDMI 2.1+ driver would make pirating much simpler, probably trivial and they don’t want that.

It’s possible anyway of course but there are a couple of hardware hoops to jump through and that’s enough to keep most people from doing it.