I’ve yet to see substantive evidence that mass surveillance actually does anything (positive), let alone to a degree that remotely justifies the incurred costs, whether material or societal.

Or gravely disappointed at least.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this, but I’m not always on Lemmy. There’s always more code to be written - you know how it is, I’m sure.

Given the constraints you outline, one other avenue of attack could be to consider the time-sensitivity of product updates and the relative priority thereof. If it’s acceptable for updates to products to lag somewhat, you can at least perform them at a lower rate over longer time, thus reducing hardware load at any given time. If the periodic updates are make to the same per-product values, you could even potentially get smart and replace queued updates not yet performed, if they’re superseded by a subsequent change before they’re actually committed thus further reducing load.

“The kind with trigger discipline…”

I’m a happy i3 user, but that actually looks pretty enticing. Might give that a go the next time I’m trying something new.

It’s always nice to see companies claiming to care about privacy walking the walk. In this case, all the way out of Switzerland.

Thanks for the tip! I wasn’t aware of nvtop, and I’m thoroughly pleased that’s no longer the case.

This is like a throwback to Motif, but actually looking nice. Kudos!

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Yeah. Let’s not get started on fucking Oracle. We’ll be here all day. Or year, possibly.

It’s not easier or more convenient, nor did I ever suggest it would be.

No, of course not. I’m suggesting alternatives for those who want to avoid relying on said service. That is what this post is all about, no?

I remind you that email was one of the examples I gave. Another was… Calling each other.

Kudos! I wish you the best of luck and hope for your success.

but that shit simply doesn’t fly if you try to coordinate a children’s birthday party in 2025.

My comment might have been sarcastic, but my recognition of that fact was genuine. My point was that just because people have lost the ability doesn’t mean it cannot be regained. Of course, for that to happen, there would have to be a need driving the process. Like, I don’t know, a lack of a convenient Amazon wish list that makes it superfluous for people to even make the attempt.

That’s a very good point.

That seems unlikely to persuade those people to continue using VMware, but good luck with that business strat Broadcom.

Paying a premium for ridding yourself of institutional knowledge and existing experience, then paying again to fill the gap with ignorant novices, then paying yet again to train them to former levels of productivity while paying for the difference in the interrim: That’s government efficiency, baby!

I mean, why pay for one thing once, when paying for the thing you already had before you threw it out four times over is clearly four times as good - just like how a double standard is twice as good as a boring singular standard. As Big Balls from DOGE would no doubt say: “That’s math”.

Christ yes, you’re right. What is this, the 1990’s? What’s next? Suggesting that people coordinate and cooperate by communicating with each other like some sort of dark age savages? Hah, might as well suggest that people call each other and work things out, which is - let’s be honest - just one small step away from snail-mailing clay tablets.

Don’t know what I was thinking, really. Apologies.

An itemized list of things published wherever people can access it? Heck, just email it to them. Let them figure out where they want to spend their money.