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US and UK weren’t one country. US was a UK colony

Yeah, so exactly as with USSR and Ukraine.

that’s why they celebrate independence day

Yeah, so exactly as with USSR and Ukraine.

The only reason Ukraine and Taiwan want to separate from Russia and China respectively is because of American interference

Nobody gave a shit about Americans in Ukraine when the Orange Revolution happened, or during the Maidan Protests. They just wanted democracy and re-integration with the West.

One more time: Ukraine was an independent country around 400 years before Muscovy (proto-russia) became a thing. It got gobbled up by the various superpowers of the area, but always retained its national identity. Culturally, there’s a very clear continuation from the Kyivan Rus all the way to modern day Ukraine.

You might as well suggest that the Scottish independence movements exist because of “American interference”, even though they existed for hundreds of years before the American Independence.

You’re just repeating russian propaganda points verbatim, so I don’t know if you’re this ignorant, or a russian bot. If it’s ignorance, feel free to ask questions, I know lots of people are super confused with what’s going on in Ukraine and that area due to russian disinformation campaigns.

US and UK used to be one country. Should US now become subservient to the UK based on that?

Are you high, friend? They speak Ukrainian, it’s a completely different language. Similar, but different.

Imagine you’re suggesting that Spain is “basically Brazil” because they “speak Portuguese”.

Calling Ukraine “new” just shows how ignorant you are. Kievan Rus has been around since 11th century. Ukraine is older than russia by 3-4 hundred years.

and it is a former USSR territory

So is half the EU. What’s this got to do with anything?

That’s because 90% of these articles about their technological breakthroughs are bullsht.

Nothing they’ve done in recent years is ground breaking.

Room temperature superconductors? Fake.

Self-driving bus using painted lanes for navigation? We have trains and trams for that.

Thorium reactor? Germany had one in the 80s, shut it down because it was expensive, there’s around 20 different projects happening in Europe and North America to make it more efficient.

The fusion reactor from the article? They maybe potentially hypothetically achieved one breakthrough of the dozens still needed to make fusion viable.

Etc., etc.

Mate, have you seen the valuation of companies handling AI or hardware that AI requires?

Shareholders are creaming their pants any time someone says “agentic” or “AI”.

It’s so hilarious to see people’s reaction to something that happened two years ago.

Only nobody noticed because nobody uses that app, I guess.

Stop panicking, people. It’s silly.

Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.

No such thing exists, especially with legacy corpo software.

Windows is inherently unstable, that’s my point.

As a Windows admin for the past ~20 years - nonsense.

The fact that your 30year old business software is still running is just the fact that Windows has built in patches for some common programming patterns used at the time and someone having insight enough can enable/disable them (mostly).

… which is exactly my point. What’s yours?

Oh. And of course it’s badly debuggable and frequently goes wrong.

Not so frequently to cause major disruptions.

Or you can just not introduce extra instability layers and use native Windows. I can’t even fathom the cost of implementation and maintenance of something like that in a company like HCL (200 000 employees, last I checked).

Linux has excellent legacy support for Linux.

Now run a 1998 obscure Windows vendor custom app. The vendor went out of business 30 years ago.

Not to mention that it would kill the entirety of existing IT automation, the entirety of centralised system management, and lots more.

I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job

What are you talking about? Under this guy’s tenure the MSFT share price skyrocketed. What else would shareholders care about? He’s doing an excellent job, as far as they’re concerned.

That would never happen. The entire reason why Windows is not as power efficient as MacOS or some Linux distros is the backwards compatibility that it brings. People laugh at the fact that you can still find icons and .dlls from Windows 95 (or, probably, even 3), but that’s exactly one of the reasons why this OS is so massively popular, especially for enterprise users.

Ulefone is a tiny Chinese company that employs between 500 and 1000 employees. It’s far, far, far from being a “corporation”.

They market themselves as approachable and say they have a 24/7 chat available. Sure, it’s probably a bot you’d start talking to, but potentially end up talking to a human.

But, well, you do you. Bought a phone, spent months troubleshooting on your own, and now want to stop using it completely - if you feel good about it, it’s all good.

But I were in your shoes, I’d probably at least see what happens if I contact support.

What did Ulefone say about these issues?

I hate journalism so much these days…

Random dude in the parliament: “Let’s all shit our pants.”

“Journalists”: “Denmark wants to shit its pants!!”

What do you mean?? Elon has solved the critical problem of there not being a vaguely hot anime character in Grok users could talk to!

Not OP but - It’s both. Sometimes I’m searching for something very specific and Google just refuses to give me what I need, while serving tonnes of promoted bullshit. Copilot will then (sometimes) give me the results I need much faster.

Other times I have a vague idea of what I’m looking for and an AI like Copilot can narrow it down for me or sometimes just flat out give me the result I need.

Of course, that only works if it doesn’t hallucinate bullshit answers, which it does regularly. Still, with how far Google has fallen, sometimes it’s just faster to go through Copilot and sift out hallucinations anyway.