So Microsoft is so diversified, 130K isn’t even a drop to them. We had almost 200K seats of E3 and when I calculated out the revenue from our EA vs their total revenue, it came up to something like 0.012%. Even though it was tens of millions of dollars on our end, we’re still a drop in the bucket to them.

Frankly I’ve never had any issues running Windows 11. It’s just the OS in the background for me. I think the biggest difference is I always run Enterprise versions (not Pro or Home) and most of that crap is either non-existent, disabled by default or easy to disable via GPO.

The big thing for people to realize is that Enterprise is the version most all businesses (especially large ones) run, and Microsoft isn’t going to crap on them as easily. And they know by extension, people will run what their business is, but they can get away with making Pro and Home crappier since it’s just individuals who would switch, not large swaths.

Yup. Quic, for example, layers on UDP instead of TCP. It’s still an IP based protocol. But then you can also get things like FCoE which don’t even use TCP/UDP. Or even ATM which uses its own frame structure. There’s plenty of reasons to need to understand the OSI model.

Once upon a time there were more protocols than just TCP/IP. You could have IPX/SPX, Baynes and others.

Hell. Even now with the introduction of Quic, it’s starting to change the use of TCP/IP, so having a general understanding of the layers in an abstracted manner let you map them to the different syntaxes that are out there. Kind of like programming languages.

Thanks. Thats really annoying that they send out the 1095-C forms then. Just a waste at that point.

When did they repeal that?

And isn’t there still that stupid law in place saying you have to have health coverage and get like a 1095-C stating which months you did, otherwise they penalize you on your taxes and potentially jail?

Nothing like a double whammy.

When they only produce white babies with blue eyes and blonde hair. Could call them “aryians” or something catchy like that. /s

I’m gonna regret this… so tell me about their testicles? Size of basketballs or something?

Maybe I haven’t run into it too often or I’ve been ignornant of it, but what are some of those opinions that you’re referring to?

Once the oligarchs have picked the bones over here, the EU is next. They’re like a virus that must keep consuming.

I use “nc” and parse like a real man.

Riiiight… like Zuck is just gonna give up and sell all the land he’s buying in Palo Alto with all the money in the compound he’s building.

Why not both?

Wtf did I just read. It’s scary how much of that stuff is in Project 2025 and has been executed on.

Mine came via FedEx. Were yours USPS?

Something that caught my attention. I ordered two random, non-Christmas items on Monday. I fully expected not to see them until later this week or next week. Much to my surprise, they’re out for delivery today.

The sheer fact I could order something 3 days before Christmas and have it arrive on Christmas Eve tells me that shipping rates are much lower this year than they have been in years past, which means people aren’t ordering the same amount they used to.

If they want to be part of the US they’re welcome to try to emigrate to the US. But given that’s only about 15% of the population, I believe the correct sentiment is: get the fuck out of here with that.

Dude is posting more times in a day than Trump on one of his rants…. He really needs some help and from what I’m reading he didn’t like Reddit, so went to Lemmy, we’re telling him the same thing which most likely means he’s gonna bail to another platform and shop around for someone who validates his echo chamber.

All i can say is if I won that there would quickly be a post tax exodus of that money and myself out of the country.