It's B2B/Enterprise in the driver's seat to keep revenue coming. Usability and polishing of the products is locked in the trunk of the car.

source: been there.

I would go either with Ubuntu or Fedora. The entry barrier is lower, they work well and shouldn't be too troublesome to install/maintain.

Then check whether you prefer Gnome or KDE as the looks and go with what you find cooler.

I've used Ubuntu most of my career and it's solid, these days I'm testing Fedora at home due to some nitpicks I have, but both are good options.

Good that they got some money and a longer runaway, but I have my doubts the product will improve rather than be smothered to death.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Time will tell.

I believe Microsoft biggest achievement is being capable to stay relevant for the past 50 years, largely due to enterprise.

If you take a close look as an user, all their products is half-baked in some way (inconsistent behaviors, dark patterns, poor support, etc.), good enough so they can lock you in and hold your data hostage with time.

> largely due to enterprise.

And government bribes, and piracy, and giving Windows for free to some Universities in exchange for being included in curriculum.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become IBM

Would you have a fusion menu tasting? We are celebrating tonight.

Helium is pretty tasteless.

Take any of these videos with a grain of salt.

In demos these robots only need to do well once and it can take hours to record.

In real life, a failure rate of 80% is unnacceptable, but perfectly fine to edit out in the final cut media.

I hope they do well, this area is incredibly hard, but it will take a lot more than what people imagine.

I just want the consumer grade robot dog so I can program it to chase the roomba around.

This whole hype cycle man. It's all shiny demos and no real products.

Robotics is hard and robotics companies fold as fast as flies die on a hot summer day.

I am not suggesting it is easy. I am saying, it is a lot more likely now than 10 years ago.

I believe some problems in the field are now easier, we haven't made a dent on the truly hard ones, IMO.

source: I work in the field.

I am not in the field, but I am trying to branch out a little so it helps to talk with someone who is.

LLMs probably help the same way they help with other stuff. They lower the barrier of entry for newcomers ( good and bad at the same time ).

That said, what are the current hard problems? I don't want to derail the thread, but this is of personal interest.

Gmail's +tag (and the .) is nice in theory, but terrible in practice. It's super easy for malicious actors to just drop them and there are a few services out there that simply are not able to work with the +tag, potentially getting you locked you out of your own account. Not gmail's fault, but I would recommend against using it.

Mine is "leadership sync":

https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg?si=K02Vsl7UhiUHos06

If you ever worked in a dysfunctional org this video speaks volumes.

These are all great, and for me it's even weird to pick a favorite because somehow he's managed to put so much genius into all of those videos and in so many multifaceted ways, it's beyond me. What kind of job/career experience has he had to come up with all of that, so creatively and accurately?

I just don't get how he can have had all this experience and at the same time be able to come up with those creative videos while still holding those insights. Because there's so many clever little things implying he's seen a lot. And created those videos in parallel.

> What kind of job/career experience has he had to come up with all of that, so creatively and accurately?

One of them has been at Amazon for a while.

Seems like an accurate set of experiences of a 10-20 years long career.

this signal the death of the passive aggressive "take this offline" for me

also favorite comment "This video captures the absolute weirdness of millennials and zoomers inheriting the bureaucratic systems created by baby boomers"

I find it weird how so much generation discussion seems to skip gen x. I see references to boomer, millennial, and zoomer/gen z way way more often than gen x.

Gen X’s arc was going from Reality Bites/Wayne’s World slacker grunge culture into the stultifying white collar Office Space of the Matrix and then disappearing from the zeitgeist entirely after 9/11 made Fight Club’s ending sort of real.

As a Genuine Millennial (1986) who works around a lot of Gen X, I don't really perceive much of a difference between us tbh.

We are the "meh" generation -- I'm happy we're overlooked.

Nothing, but buckle up, we need to refactor our stack again.