Not too long ago, a lot of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software ran on MS SQL Server. Businesses made significant investments in software and training, and some of them don’t have the technical, financial, or logistical resources to adapt - momentum keeps them using Windows Server.

For example, small businesses that are physically located in rural areas can’t use cloud based services because rural internet is too slow and unreliable. Its not quite the case that there’s no amount of money you can pay for a good internet connection in rural America, but last time I looked into it, Verizon wanted to charge me $20,000 per mile to run a fiber optic cable from the nearest town to my client’s farm.

who are, ironically, not communist

I wasn’t using bluetooth with 7, so you could be right. But if I need to fiddle with wifi beyond just changing what AP I’m connected to, the network settings I typically want to look at, eg disabling adapters or manually setting an IP address, were available in fewer steps in 7 versus 10.

Yeah, every UI change since 7 has been for the worse, increasing the number of steps required to get work done.

Yeah, if you’ve got a short commute, and some way to charge it at home, that’s the way to go. I’ve heard second hand about people needing to add fuel stabilizer to their plug-in hybrid because they use so little gas.

The market for hybrid vehicles has lately been growing even faster than for fully electric vehicles; hybrids, which do not have to be plugged in, allow consumers to avoid a patchy national public charging network.

Not to mention the lack of chargers at rented residences, and the inability for most of us to afford to buy our own house.

Wonder how it handles Sandevistan? Does time slow down for everyone? Do only NPC’s slow down?

On a sufficiently large billiards table, it does become hard to prove that some balls don’t spontaneously sink themselves.

There was a relevant post on Lemmy the other day:

The origin and nature of existence is an epistemological black hole that some people like to plug with “a wizard god did it”.

The sensation of free will is an emergent property of a lack of awareness of the big stuff, the small stuff, the long stuff, and the short stuff.

What, and I can’t stress this enough, the fuck?

That extra weight will also mean that more force is required to accelerate and change directions.

The nimbleness of a vehicle can be expressed as the ratio:

(Tire Contact Area * Tire Stickiness) / Vehicle Mass

Increasing the vehicle’s mass while making the tires harder will lead to longer breaking distances and will cause a vehicle to understeer at lower speeds.

So this big breakthrough in tire technology is . . . making them harder and reducing their grip?

There’s no reason EVs have to be heavier forever

That’s a bit of a stretch, unfortunately. The energy density of batteries is nowhere close to that of gasoline - joule for joule, gasoline weighs about 100 times less than batteries. Also, a fuel tank big enough to give its vehicle a 400 mile range will get lighter over the course of the trip, as the liquid fuel gets converted into polluting gas and exhausted into the atmosphere - batteries don’t get appreciably lighter as you discharge them.

Agree that 400 miles range with charging stations as ubiquitous as today’s gas stations would help EV adoption. I do worry about the rollout of charging stations being slowed down by competition with expensive and fragile hydrogen tech (keep the hydrogen on boats and trains pls).

why the hell would Mozilla be obliged to acknowledge this request?

That’s what I’ve been scratching my head about too. What leverage does Russia have to force them to do this? What consequences could they impose for non-compliance?

Does Mozilla own property in Russia? Sell it or write it off, then ignore the censorship request.

Do they have employees who live or have family in Russia? Either fire them or help them move, then ignore the censorship request.

None of the above? Perhaps it is we who need to fire Mozilla then.

Also, its probably safe to assume the producers will lie about how much they’re allowing to leak into the air.

There’s an app installed on your phone and a separate bluetooth device you keep in your car.

By default, it assumes you’re the driver of your car, but you can use the app to claim someone else was driving your car during a particular trip.

If you’re in someone else’s car, the app assumes you’re not driving because the bluetooth device in your car isn’t nearby.

what taking damage does to a mf’er

Or simply working out of troll farms in China or Russia while being bankrolled by Republicans in USA. Same M.O.

edit: for example: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/chatgpt-bot-x-russian-campaign-meme/

Wise words from SatansMaggotyCumFart.

congratulations. you’ve just sent a linux newb down a 12 hour rabbit hole that doesn’t actually solve their problem.