Blackstone inc.

Private equity firm. Owns more than $1 trillion in residential properties. It also owns or manages around 250 property developers worldwide

Making it disappear basically solves the world wide unaffordable housing crisis.

Germany and Italy learn from their mistakes. The US keeps repeating them more than any other country (except for Argentina)

But those are Americans.

Mandrake 2003. Followed by Ubuntu server 5.10 in 2005.

Switched to Debian in 2020, been on Debian since.

I use it because of the lack of BS.

Secondly, it’s stable.

Would not say equally shitty, otherwise they won’t have popular support they do.

You are correct however that they are not pro consumer.

They are just a smarter, wiser business with a sustainable business model that understands the importance of consumer trust.

It’s a dire chihuahua

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/

Native Realtime collaboration on documents and spreadsheets is the last feature holding us back from switching in business environments.

Yes, I recall at the time experts saying it was a terrible mistake and Elon saying Machine learning will bridge the gap.

The real reason was to increase margins.

Actually because of the density you wont be able to sink more than about 1/6th of your body into it.

They are pocketing the higher margins in countries without tariffs.

Nooe, they will just permanently raise prices everywhere and pocket bigger margins.

It will take them 20 years to catch up to the 5-7 years they are behind, even with all the money in the world.

As you say, it’s setting up the supply chain.

Human leather bound books!

I would put money down it will still be worse than the community 3d printed fixes.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-magic-mouse-issues-fixed-by-hardware-hacker

Having to pay only 10% of your income for room and board, sounds so good, people would kill for it.

I am not referring to a like to dislike ration, I am referring to a dislike to view ratio. YouTube should bury those from recommendations.

Or, you can bring back the dislike button and stop promoting videos with high dislike ratios.

Its chronic underinvestment in engineering to “maximize shareholder value” for a decade before AMD launched Zen. Then Intel got 5 years behind on engineering, and have only managed to get 2 of those 3 caught up. The newest tile based architecture only just matches the performance of AMD’s 3 year old AM4 architecture.

Perfect market timing.