It is, but I’m guessing they know pretty accurately how many will actually take the deal, like 20k or something. Still an insane number, an entire town leaving.

Personally I like Sable, it feels closer to Discord, has call support, and “just works”

It is, but I’ll honestly give Microsoft credit here. I have several friends who work there who are nearing retirement, and this is honestly the best way to do it. You leave with dignity, you get a fat check, and you get to retire early. I have a couple who have done it already. Honestly, as far as layoffs go, it’s the best way to do it.

The only gotcha is if you choose to stay you officially know you’re on notice, you probably shouldn’t trust it. If you don’t take it then tomorrow you could be shown the door with a minimal severance, or no severance at all.

I didn’t say that, I said it’s a skeleton crew, which it is. Are those people technical? Yes. But it’s not something worth bringing to your small town expecting jobs.

You can make it 500 and it still isn’t that economic “boom” that big tech promises.

You’re talking in terms of an individual. 50 people is not bringing a lot of jobs to an economy and not worth giving tax breaks to. To a town of 5000 it would be 1% of the population working there, maybe 2% with electricians as you say. Politicians think it’s like their corporate headquarters where thousands of people will be working there

That could backfire proving that they “can” block “internet” though I’d think

Datacenters do not bring jobs or tax income! I scream into a room of people who do already know that but it breaks my heart seeing the damage done there.

They bring massive land, energy, and water use, and are manned by only a skeleton crew of tech workers, even a small town wouldn’t notice a bump in population or revenue.

Leaders who approve them are either too naive and stupid by not understanding this (and thus should be voted out) or they are corrupt and accepting bribes (and should be kicked out or minimum voted out)

Phew to think how close it is to my private key

oh people are going to buy the shit out of this. Guaranteed. We can all boycott here, I know I’m not going to buy one, but Microsoft don’t care. Want to know what Microsoft sees?

• Sells well? Hooray profit, let’s give everything back to the shareholders
• Flops? Let’s close Xbox and lay everyone off, we just have an excuse now.

It’s a win win for them. Personally I think most people are going to happily line up at the slop line and eat up.

This isn’t really surprising. It’s the same as a company doing it, and frankly I’m surprised they didn’t already. They don’t need government people happily sending data up to Chinese dataminers.

Who’s the narc who called the cops on her?

he always unveils something when he has an ulterior motive

So what much needed public infrastructure project is he trying to torpedo now? Amtrak is doing well. People are biking more. Better try to distract some people with this moronic thing.

Is your argument both in the same breath that EVs will catch on too quick that all gas stations will disappear in a matter of days and also that EV adoption will not catch on quick enough because charging is too slow?

Good thing I wrote up two other options if it doesn’t work for you. It works perfectly fine on our car trips.

The fact that so many people don’t think about this or are unaware shows how well the propaganda worked.

Here is a car that is by far the easiest car you’ll ever own, the power to run it is the cheapest you’ll ever see, and 99% of your trips will be within one charge/tank meaning you’ll never need to worry about range ever - but the propaganda convinced them all that that’s a deal breaker.

As an EV owner the road trips we take are the vast minority of driving anymore. When we do there are options.

• plan out your route and stops. Requires maybe 15 minutes of planning before your trip. You pick a place with food nearby, get out for 30 minutes, stretch, eat your meal, and you are good until the next meal.
• if you are one of the 80% of households with 2 cars, take the other car for that roadtrip.
• get a rental car for your trip. (Remembering that a couple hundred for a rental car is vastly cheaper than paying for gas for 10+ years)

Not… The websites…

Why do you think they’re doing ethics promises now? I have a feeling that all the third party models are going to fail the ethics tests and now that nvidia owns huggingface it’ll be very easy to ban them in the states.

Download your models now

I don’t understand how people trust them as a service. They have an extremely well documented history of doing exactly this.