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PushButton@lemmy.worldto Tech@programming.dev•Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base5·13 days agoYes, we are going back to the mainframe era. It started gradually with “the cloud”.
I remember the first days of “the cloud”, when people were not keen to give their data to other companies: “we aren’t going to put all our data on the internet!”. Yet, here we are.
Today, when I bring slightly the idea we could host our operations, I am seen like the crazy one.
Slowly but surely, everything is being locked down in the hands of a few.
The costs are raising, our freedom is diminished, and our privacy is gone.
Linux is like the only bastion remaining. I hope we all take care of this one!
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Tech@programming.dev•Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base17·13 days agoThey know. Microsoft is now a service company. Windows upgrades are free. Do you remember when Microsoft said that windows 10 is the last windows?
Now the upgrade to 11 is free, Microsoft is a service company… Windows is only a platform to sell you an office 365 subscription, copilot bullshit and grabbing your information.
They know the Windows days are numbered, and they are going to extract the most juice out of it until it dies.
In their head, the only OS you’ll need in the future is a browser, until then, tough luck peasants.
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Programming@programming.dev•AI Models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Solve 0% of ‘Hard’ Coding Problems0·20 days agoIt means the AI is very helpful to you. This also means you are as good as 1/3 of an AI in coding skills…
Which is not a great news for you mate.
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•How Social Media Brings Out the Worst in UsEnglish1·1 month ago
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePointEnglish4·2 months agoSorry Dave…
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit companyEnglish5·2 months agoMetroid layout.
GPT is the boss located left, the final boss is called Profit, and it’s at the bottom…
No.
There is enough LibreOffice users to realize that the curve of the donations over users isn’t proportional.
When was the last time you donated?
Exactly.
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux equivalents of SketchyVim, for vim modal editing in any text box?1·3 months agoIf I remember correctly, Wayland forbids to listen to keyboard inputs for security reasons. Each software receives its input, but there is no global listening.
So, in my understanding, this could mean that it’s not possible.
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Programming@programming.dev•Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work12·3 months agoIn the meantime, I am interviewing juniors who can’t write a while or for loop without looking on the internet…
The future is looking grim.
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?English1·3 months agoImagine that, Windows 11 can remember everything you did in the past 3 months, it’s making sure that you didn’t forget about Office 365, Xbox Live subscriptions, and about Edge, the browser embedded deeply in the OS…
Sometimes, for your convenience, it will put Edge as the default, but you totally can change it back to what it was!
Are you sure you don’t want to switch? You’re missing a lot there…
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Programming@programming.dev•How Software Engineers Actually Use AI22·4 months agoThe amount of time the “AI” is saving me is well reimbursed, maybe twice, by the time I am wasting when that “AI” is bullshitting me.
At the end of the day, it isn’t worth the frustration.
I have something similar, but with an old nvidia 1070.
I run a file server, nginx for my web dev, git server, postgres and, surprisingly, ollama.
The old nv 1070 is CUDA capable and it’s doing an OK job for my usage.
Check if you can put your hand on an old NV card for an AI agent.
Cheers!
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Found my new favorite Linux laptop manufacturer/j0·4 months agoThat company is probably owned by This guy.
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Microsoft Makes More Of Their DirectX Compiler Code Open-SourceEnglish1·5 months agoLet me present you: Open DirectX
PushButton@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•so if i install debian 12 on my machine, can i just let it sit there for years or months??1·6 months agoYeah, but it’s a well known, well hidden fact, that Arch users are the beta testers of packages before real distros includes them…
We don’t actually use Arch, it’s a testing environment.
But we need those testers you know… So…
GO ARCH GO best distro evar!!
Hehe…
Elite Dangerous
Oh really? You won’t tell us that you’re not happy about the free marketing/traffic…