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musk could just buy it. jack already sold twitter to him, and while musk might have comprehended how shitty a deal it was (i mean he tried to back out of the contract and all); he doesn't seem like the guy who would be smart enough to avoid cost sunk fallacy and might want to buy bluesky to keep digging that hole. and jack wouldn't turn him down for a bid on bluesky for the same reason he didn't turn him down before - money.

That's actually not as easy with Bluesky. It's decentralized enough that buying it doesn't help control it that well. The previous owners or someone else could easily go set up another shop and compete using the same network and protocol.

Do I wish Mastodon were coming out on top? Sure. But Bluesky is still a significant improvement.

I wonder if this gives them the rights to all of Infowars' library of footage. Maybe they could "keep" Jones as a host by cutting up old clips kinda how South Park did with Isaac Hayes for Chef's last episode.

I switched to Thunderbird when they started to get insistent about switching to Outlook.

Disowning current tariffs doesn't mean they'll go away, either, though.

Tariffs are easy to put in place, but hard to roll back. You can put then in place on a whim, basically, but then the target country will retaliate with their own. As a result, removing them requires diplomatic negotiation to make sure the removal is bilateral. That's not easy to do during times of icy relations like China and we currently have.

Still I expected them to try harder this time, because the technologies to develop a good GPU, are strategically important in other areas too

I think I read somewhere that they're having problems getting AIB partners for Battlemage. That would be a significant impediment for continuing in the consumer desktop market unless Battlemage can perform better (business-wise) than Alchemist.

They probably will continue investing in GPU even if they give up on Arc, it might just be for the specialized stuff.

I believe it actually is used in regular Mint (the Debian kernel doesn't include it, but it looks like Ubuntu's and Mint's do). But yes, I suppose it is still in the process of being adopted by various distributions.

To be fair here, no one's certain this will be cost-effective either. The new techs make it worth trying though.

As far as I know, Linux ignores NTFS permissions when given raw access to a disk, or rather, acts as thought it's SYSTEM or some other high-level user, working around anything Windows might have set.

I think that was the case for ntfs-3g.

I'm not certain that's the case anymore with the new kernel NTFS driver, though I havent tested it. If it isn't, it should be correctly handling the file premissions.

I'd try Heiboard again, but it didn't have built-in layout options, nor a clearly communicated way to get them last I tried it.

I think that's on the development plate for 0.5 if I understand correctly.

Sadly AnysoftKeyboard hasn't seen a release in some time either. Still using it for now, though.

I'm surprised it's not mentioned in the article, but also complicating this situation is the Chagos refugees seeking to take control of the TLD and/or receive reparations from the current registrar.

Their relationship had been kind of good until recently as there has been an uptick in dissatisfaction on the status quo of Taiwan's political status (unspoken independence) — mostly on China's side, but also from some Taiwanese.

They remain important trading partners for each other, though.