I do too but then you want to just run basic for i;do x;done and you need to translate it to fish syntax.

It wasn’t much of a problem but this thread actually convinced me that there’s less profit from fish than using something like an old oh-my-zsh(probably much easier to setup now).

Is it good if you setup your new pc, don’t have your configs at hand and want a nice terminal with convenient features? Definitely. But I think it’s better to spend 5 minutes afterwards to move away from it.

I know. I just don’t want to. There’s no point in learning fish scripting, you won’t use them anywhere unless you want your colleagues to hate you because now they also have to learn it for no reason.

I use fish on a couple of devices, but damn it’s frustrating when you want to do a fast and simple bash scripting and it doesn’t work. Frankly now I think it would have been better to spend some time to setup zsh.

That’s great news. Will be waiting for it.

You explained it quite well, I just didn’t think you were serious.

Let’s go back to my original question. A company that’s dismantling itself for a quarterly profit. Obviously Microsoft doesn’t fit since they are doing it for many years now and are still going strong even if just on paper like you say.

So according to your analysis when will it be dismantled? Will they go down in 3 months as a punishment for the latest quarterly profit? Maybe a year? 5 years? Will it happen in this century?

Undoubtedly they conceded to Wall St pressure to sacrifice research and engineering funding to goose short-term profits

That’s an interesting statement. So let’s go like 15 years ago. What short-term profits were they pursuing? And how can you call them short-term when those profits lasted for so long?

Microsoft for 8 years now is a company that sells Linux and opensource.

Non of their divisions you mentioned were profitable for many years now(especially Windows), just look at their yearly reports. Only logical to get rid of them. Don’t agree with your Azure statement, don’t mind me, numbers don’t agree with it.

I don’t get why you wrote so much about gaming, Microsoft never was a gaming company. And frankly nothing important for gamers was lost with them buying those empty shells of game developer companies, then shutting them down.

I can agree on the AI hype especially with recent github news. But those are recent, we’ll have to see if that was bad or good decision.

I don’t think it’s illegal in China, they also don’t blanket ban vpns.

They are not the first country to ban vpns, those bans usually target 95% of individuals who are bad at tech not encrypted communications as a whole. Though I can see Britain ignoring that experience and just shooting itself in the face.

They probably know and don’t care because more than 99.99% won’t do it.

Microsoft is doing pretty well so I wouldn’t call it “dismantling”, it seems to be working for them.

Fair point. Has meant IT companies.

Pretty sure Intel is still alive and their problems are systematic from many years ago when AMD released Bulldozer and Intel decided it can stop innovating. So don’t think they fit here.

Microsoft nowadays is one of the evil companies. Microsoft back in the day was the evil company.

Companies are dismantling themselves for one more good quarter

Any example of this?

Oh, well, it’s okay if it suits for you. Just not at all an alternative to cloudflare.

Can you explain please? How can I use archive.org as a cdn for my website?

Cloudflare doesn’t distinguish these things

It does.

You just make useragent like “AI bot request initiated by user” and the website owners will decide for themselves to allow your traffic or not.

If your bot pretends to not be a bot, it should be blocked.

Edit. Btw Openai does this.

That would be terrible for a lot of people as they are the only company providing such services that doesn’t charge for traffic.

Try lowering MTU, just don’t lower it too much.