Nice socks! Where’s a good place to find quality socks of this style?

Go fash, lose cash. 👍🏻

Astounding, isn’t it? That’s publicly traded companies for you. The company’s objective is to keep its stock up and up and up. That means shareholders must want to keep buying the stock, which in turn means that the company must demonstrate that its value will keep growing, so that by buying the stock today the shareholders will get a positive return tomorrow.

Of course, the universe is finite and no growth is forever. The end state for such companies is not bankruptcy, at least in the immediate, but, more or less, the IBM fate: a previously uber-dominant mastodon whose market capitalization is now worth maybe one tenth of its modern competitors. The fact that it’s still turning a profit is only secondary: none of the big tech shops want to be the next IBM. Their executives are, after all, mostly paid in stocks.

And that’s how you end up with companies that are making amounts of revenue you and I can’t even comprehend flail in a panic like they’re on the edge of the precipice whenever the technological landscape shifts.

It’s both fascinating and remarkably dumb.

Empirically: they are.

Interesting deep dive and very much worth a read. I’d say it probably underestimates the weight of finance-related pressures coming from the CFO’s office, though.

Too real. They’ll steal your heart alright, but god damn.

I am highly doubtful trump would be worse.

Lol.

Presumably the My Little Pony comic. I haven’t read it but I understand it likes putting in references that will amuse adults.

If you are considering picking up Outer Wilds, by god, go in blind. It’s all about finding out.

I don’t know why you are getting downvoted. This is a very valid and interesting point. Durable improvements are systemic, not individual, and the drive to look for heroes leads to nasty places.

Everypony.

An oft overlooked option that leaves no one indifferent.

Correct, AFAIU.

“Oh, ta gueule.”

Oh, shut the fuck up. It’s really crude language. Which makes it even funnier.

It’s a trade-off that works for many. Not much you and I can do about it, even if it’s frustrating.

Thank you! I know all these things. This still doesn’t help when the DAW support and VST compatibility aren’t there.

If you’re intent on doing music production on Linux, at least do yourself a favor and get a Reaper license, there are few enough pro DAWs that are Linux native. But be aware that many of the big industry VSTs are still not going to work. If you’re fine sticking to e.g. ZynAddSubFX or Pianoteq, though, knock yourself out.

But you can’t reasonably expect musicians to jump those hoops and abandon their fav VSTs when their Windows tooling is there, and works.

JACK is very cool and if you’re willing to tinker there’s some really awesome stuff that can be done with LADISH session management and e.g. native Linux VSTs.

It’s still a non-option for musicians who just want to do music, not tinkering.

Well! Thank you for being a good sport about it. :)

Considering it’s a reference to Monty Python’s Life of Brian, I’m gonna go with yes.

Yeah, definitely the vibe has changed. It’s kind of sad.

Google has literally been reporting billions of net profit every quarter.

This is about appeasing shareholders. The capitalist class hates that tech employees have been able to command decent salaries and has been striving to push back for a while now.