All that ram? Dude, that’s a Bentley in pcie form factor.

He’s allowed to. I described an option, not a mandate.

You know I’ve found the store bought stuff is now way worse that the occasionally tempermental homeassistant stuff. I’m playing with migrating Shelly’s to esphome since they dragged their feet on thread for so long and their latest zigbee firmware is laggy and annoying.

Sir, there’s a reason nobody likes to see the sausage being made.

Excel is the 7th ring of hell

To be fair, neither does the real MS office

Also yes. My response was more about showing you can have a modern smarthome that does not talk to the internet. You can of course automate without.

Shelly outlets can do zigbee and BT without wifi now, thread soon in a firmware update or now with esphome.

Shelly smart outlet + homeassistant + dumb coffee maker = genius coffee maker.

I hit a mine and it let me continue

BeOS was promising.

you cannot reliably disable things in windows because Microsoft “accidentally” reactivates them all the time. Backward compatibility is impressive in terms of binary translation in prism, but really old legacy software no no no. the multiple abstraction layers fuck performance even harder and their TPM solution phones home to Microsoft every goddamn time it is used. The entire point of windows 11 was to make it cheaper for Microsoft and fire all the experienced people keeping the ship afloat. It did not work because they were letting buisness majors make engineering decisions.

Please understand, you may have an opinion, but the rest of us actually know what we are talking about.

You enjoyed windows ME too, didn’t you?

We hate the shareholders

That sounds like a problem for layers of ai companies, not users.

Seriously. Makes the suspension less aggressive and you have a win right fucking there

Slaves. They were slaves. That’s literally the entire point of H1-B visas.

Anyway, there is no way Microsoft will respect this. Even with remote work, it would kill them.

A mass ditch, if you will

Didn’t plasma have a theme for that already though?

That’s was weirdly aggressive. I’m trying to understand motive and you respond with dismissal, which means you either considered the inquiry an attack or that this project is actually dumb and that is not a satisfying answer.

Instead of chasing the dismissal and turning this into an internet slap fight among the most limp-wristed on Lemmy, let’s get back to my question: why do this?

Does this solve a UX issue? Is there some incredible performance advantage? Does it solve a problem? Is it an interesting technical challenge where something shouldn’t be possible but a neurodivergent paused his Minecraft videos and said hold my beer unconvincingly? Why was this done? Help me tune into what makes this impressive.