FatherPeanut

I was gonna say, much as I wanna do work from home myself, I'd say the whole gestures broadly at everything economic during COVID definitely has a bit more of an impact on company profits during that time period.

Real quick, does anyone want this? It's another competitor in a rather centralized market, so it's good we're seeing some adequate competition, but the product they're pushing is designed specifically for "AI and cloud workloads". Their marketing towards datacenters seems to indicate the AI focus, but at the expense of performance to non-AI applications. In a nutshell, I do believe it'll excel with AI, but "Cloud workflows" sounds like marketing lingo for "Lol this CPU can't handle heavy tasks."

Yeah, it's all speculation from me here, but if manufacturers are pressured to drop AMD for Nvidia's CPUs, this seriously looks like the first significant push to a standard where your computer only exists to access a server, where you don't own your own services.

It takes a bit of personal analysis into the product's direction to see this stuff coming. Cape was founded and rapidly advertised in sponsorships, YT ads, loads of influencers, etc. Say it with me now, that sounds like investor capital! Truth be told, y'all should probs check for those signs when seeing adverts or sponsorships, it can tell a lot about the behind-the-scenes connections of the company.

This is in comparison to, while not perfect (nor exactly the same product), Phreeli, which doesn't appear to have this massive investor capital money behind it, thus a lesser budget for advertising.

Edit: okay it took a crapton of digging, but there's a better link now.

I do gotta admit too, this'ere was the first time I'd heard of a Surface Linux. Is it basically just like a scaled-up Linux phone, or are there some quirks to it?

This is probably it, but it's just so unfortunate that there's a constant loop that can be solved by just not entrusting a single centralized company to it:

> Find a good service

> Good service turns sour

> Find a new good service

> Good service turns sour

Like man, I'm just now getting some people to selfhosted Stoat + Matrix, but I just know once some investor-backed competitor arises, some of 'em won't even give Stoat a chance for development to catch up.

I've been going down the Linux/FOSS rabbit hole for a year at this point and hot dayumn does it just keep getting better. I seriously wonder how/why self-hosted forms of social media and apps haven't become the norm.

As an add-on, I really like VrChat, and really want to verify, but its largely because I can't trust that service that I'm being held back from doing it. I know eventually that investor capital must be returned, but surely Persona isn't the best of the options, is it?

I don't know anywhere near the full scope of this industry, but what seems to've been the case so far is that Lithium Ion battery recycling isn't really happening because not enough batteries have died yet, to sustain a company in that industry. Which y'know, bit of a good problem to have, but it's also a problem that Lead-Acid batteries had toward the early phases of their use. As was the case then, it took time for enough batteries to die to sustain an industry in battery recycling, and even moreso exacerbated with Lithium car batteries having a longer lifespan.

The interesting part is that once we have enough batteries to sustain the market, a very small proportion has to be manufactured from raw materials to makeup for product lost in the recycling process. This has Lithium in a weird state where we currently heavily rely on its extraction, yet as far as the auto industry is concerned, it won't be too terribly long in the future when we'd have the baseline supply we need.

Anyways, no clue if that's truly their approach or not, but we're at a point that I feel it wouldn't be entirely unjustifiable to consider.

That's swell that someone outside the DOJ/FBI can see the names and all, but functionally that sounds about as useful as nobody having seen the names at all. What's a lawmaker going to do? Those aren't rhetorical questions, I really wanna know what can be achieved outta it, because I don't see any gain.

They can't make copies or show their own staff, yet they'd be functionally expected to comb through everything on their own. All multimillion files, and through layers of added burecracy that make it difficult for anyone to view. We know lawmakers aren't exactly known for being the most thought-out, so I don't forecast they'll do much more than Ctrl + F.

On a side note, the ABC News article on this subject says Epstein killed himself. Completely irrelevant to what the post is about, but dang nabbit ABC, y'all are better than this.