Then you’ve been mislead. It hit the parking lot, damaged vehicles but left the building relatively intact and, besides windows, superficially damaged.

Why do you think it leveled the building? Have you seen such evidence?

Probably wasn’t even IT but ‘roadies’ based on those cables

Source: Jim Farley

Here’s a little FYI for ya. Tropic Thunder is based on my experiences in Vietnam.

Helluva presumption to just pull out of your ass about someone whose only relation to this matter is family name.

You’re telling me in 2023, kids are using “Droid” again to refer to Android?

I hadn’t heard that since they literally first came out.

Also, this isn’t surprising. It was assumed that younger generations, those growing up with PCs, Tablets, Smartphones, etc, would become inherently skilled with their use. Turns out that was entirely false because it also turns out people don’t want to learn what they aren’t interested in. So if you don’t care about anything more than TikTok, Insta, and Snapchat, then you don’t learn anything more than what is necessary to operate them. And Apple makes this very easy in terms of not needing to relearn even an iota between their models. Android cannot say the same.

Who needs defense in depth, right?

For the company, and no one should ever assume for a moment that everyone has their guard up at all times and is infallible.

I mean they’re not wrong, BYOD is an absolutely ginormous attack vector.

Listen, I get that Lemmy has a rather unproportionally large user base of Linux users. I like Linux for what it is, I really do. But if you think the job would have been easier by handing users who couldn’t operate Windows a Linux laptop you’re lost in the sauce. And honestly if you think ChromeOS isn’t used in professional settings then you really have no business attempting to suggest a ChromeOS alternative for what is usually the largest Tech Departments, in terms of number of end users, in the majority of Cities and Counties across the U.S.

Unfortunately there isn’t an alternative unless you live in a swanky community with a school system that has money thrown at it.

The problem, at this point, is mostly inertial. Google was poised at the right time. Surface SEs are a thing now, but how do you pivot a system that has 5000+ Chromebooks to SEs? Why should you if there is overwhelming support for what you have?

People who use Chromebooks are also really slow and aren’t technically savvy at all.

I don’t see how you can support that statement at all. It’s not like I didn’t work tickets for student devices, it just so happens that the overwhelming majority of my tickets that weren’t physically damaged Chromebooks were to support faculty devices, which were all Windows.

Why would absolutely anyone on this sub install Home? Microsoft themselves make a multi-edition .iso available on their website. And funnily enough now, Microsoft supports the hosting of massgravel. Should it take as many steps as it does two make a local account? No, but it’s literally two extra clicks.

Very much doesn’t my guy.

They have to. If you don’t respond to territorial loss with nuclear weapons you have signalled to anyone with two brain cells that it’s all up for grabs. If Ukraine can grab territory why can’t Finland? Latvia? Estonia? China?

Yes because if Ukraine threatens to gain territory within Russia’s historic (pre-2014) border they will absolutely use nuclear weapons. They’ve made this clear, and honestly, they didn’t have to.

No nuclear power has ceded any significant territory through open conflict since the advent of nuclear weapons. China won’t, France won’t, Russia won’t, Pakistan won’t, North Korea won’t, the U.S. won’t. It doesn’t even have to be spoken out loud to be a known factor. If the deterrent of nuclear strikes won’t protect your border, then you have absolutely nothing to lose by using them if you are even slightly concerned that you couldn’t move the border back conventionally.

I identify as a family of four.

Book burnings are fucking stupid.

Banning book burnings is fucking stupid.

Loved his book Ghost in the Wires. Sad day in the computing world.

There is no countering that argument. It points to an absolute failing of empathy. Rah, rah Godwin’s law incoming. If you can’t understand “First they came for…” and realize that it doesn’t just stop or start at ethnicity and instead applies to literally everything and anything you care about them it’s gonna take a serious remediative effort to correct that worldview.

It’ll be nice to see who’s immediately on the take, followed by learning those who will swallow it to the hilt.