remote work is pretty prevalent in finance/banking - at my job only the customer facing folks (branch offices, investment/mortgage, etc) need to actually be in the office - that’s only 30% of the workforce. another 15% is hybrid now, the rest are 100% remote.

VPN services are widely used by businesses - does this prohibition affect them?

ah, power constraints. yeah that tracks

the “change” is that laptop ram is socketed again?

LLM’s will probably improve at an exponential level - similar to how cpu’s did in the 80s/90s. in ~10 generations the LLMs will likely be very useful

what State’s have battery fabs? not KY, obviously - but, others, presumably?

yeah 8.1 wasnt that bad (supported it, didnt use it), 10 was way better than 8.1 imho. thinking win10 is going to be my last win though.

it was so bad. didnt help that it had higher hardware requirements than win7, and we didnt really have affordable ssd’s then so everything was so slow - or, that’s what my memory says, I havent used a spinner disk in a long time.

win11 is hot trash. seems like every other windows release is a skip. did Ballmer enshrine that or was it Gates?

thats going to be an issue - at my work roughly 60% of the userbase is connected via VPN at any given point - so, ~40,000 people or so

tried it for a bit. not much going on there. got bored & quit

same, and only reason I even looked at the article. why cant crypto just die already? it’s just a huge scam

really hope so - my work’s ServiceDesk is based in India and they’re barely functional - nothing gets fixed until the problem gets passed to an American IT person.

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use win11 at work, dont like it much. when win10 hits EoL I’ll dither for a year or so before switching over to mint or some other distro full time

eh, I could just pirate their words if I so chose & there’d be fuckall they could do about it

probably a good thing but just banning something doesnt do anything - you have to enforce it by getting rid of the software & then keep enforcing it

was cp/m really that good? never used it and all of the media I’ve seen of it looks like just another variant of dos. i grew up using dos, and I use the shell for a lot of stuff at work all the time these days, but i think most people prefer to interact via a gui

cool - but if their product lines are modular and they try to break out of their niche market. whats to stop someone with a lot more capital from snapping them up (Dell, Lenovo, etc)?

lol wat. why?