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The fact that a big company offers something doesn't mean it's going to be big in terms of customer pick-up. History is full of expensive mistakes from...

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Considering it was a footnote to a sentence where I mentioned China specifically it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what country I'm talking abou...

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Did you stop reading at "uses" or something? Because the words right after are "that can be referred to as 'big business'" come right...

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Sure, blockchain can be useful for various things, but so far the only uses that can be referred to as "big business" are subverting Chinese...

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Sounds to me like someone missed the boat and pretty badly on the cryptocurrency mining craze. Sure, people still do it, but there's boatloads of GPU...

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I was hoping that some improvements for Star Wars: Squadrons (which is currently bork'd on SteamPlay) would be on there, but it looks like it's down the...

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All 5 of them? Or are we doing the usual "Open source is libre when it's convenient for us and evil open source when it's not" nonsense?...

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What I'm going to say is probably going to piss a lot of people off, but it doesn't mean that it's any less true.

The FSF is an exercise...

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Ok... So somebody made a basic OS in their spare time that'll run on a Z80? Is that supposed to be impressive? Gary Kildall created the first version...

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When you have a nightly build that crashes on tests, I'm going to be of the opinion that it's safe to say that it's a bit premature to be benchmarking...

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Way to totally miss the point... I said that they're the same from the standpoint of what they're used for; Very low power embedded applications. The...

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I thought it was obvious that this was about the desktop specifically as WSL is for running desktop applications, not for server or embedded applications....

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Not sure if there's much of a point to this late into the twilight years of the Motorola 68k. Sure, derivatives are still being produced by NXP(who merged...