I think they mean profits are 545% of costs. Which would put revenue at 645% of costs.
Profit margin = (revenue - costs)/revenue = 545/645 = 84.5% profit margin.
So, yeah, headline is obtuse as hell and profit margins that high are either deliberately lies or grossly exploitative and uncompetitive.
If they aren’t getting much traction somewhere, but are spending outsized resources there, it makes sense to redirect the manhours elsewhere.
I remember getting really annoyed at the LoL community as anytime you were in that balanced section they just wanted to surrender and get to the ‘your team stomps theirs’ sooner. Certainly not missing that game, every time one of my friends play it, the annoyance in his voice skyrockets.
Thunderbird would be the go-to product for emails.
If someone is feeling locked into the Microsoft ecosystem, empowering them to unshackle themselves from a large part of it is important. It makes the transition later so, so much easier when you don’t need to figure out OS-agnostic softwares across the board.
That said, if you are thinking of ripping the band-aid off all at once, I am 100% on board with it. Just not everyone is ready for it.
‘swap to linux’ o’clock
On a 100% unrelated note. This reminded me of a Half Life / Eve colab video: Clear Skies. It’s hot drop o’clock!
You don’t even have to for this one. Just use Libre Office, it supports every notable OS. Been using it for years.
He wants games to release on all platforms. Where is the ‘lottery’ rhetoric coming from?
Framework laptops look like they have held in price. Hopefully it stays that way.
Try out LibreOffice, been using it for years.
It’s a constantly moving target. Yeah, you might block everything today, but then a windows update comes along and, poof, a bunch of the data harvesting is back on. I hope you were checking the detailed patch notes every time an update installs!
Hanna Montana Linux
Wine likely just runs your personal programs without issue. And you can swap them to a native compile at some point in the future if you feel motivated.
Yeah, this was my strategy. Used Mint on a secondary computer until I got more comfortable with it, then made the plunge on my main computer. Made the transition so much easier, as I was able to learn the differences at a relaxed pace.
Those are both much cheaper than the 5080 and significantly cheaper than the 5090.
Getting the real requirements nailed down from the start is critical, not just doing the work the customer asked for. Otherwise, you get 6 months into a project and realize you must scrap 90% of the completed work; the requirements from the get-go were bad. The customer never fundamentally understood the problem and you never bothered to ask. Everyone is mad and you lost a repeat customer.
AI mostly seems useful when you don’t know a specific concept and just need the base ideas. That said, given it’s often confidently wrong and doesn’t involve humans actively steering you toward better ideas, I still find Stack Overflow more helpful. Sometimes the answer to your problem is to stop doing what you are trying to do and attack the problem from a different angle.
In Germany, NL, you can just plug it into socket and it works somehow.
This is incredibly dangerous as it will feed power into the grid even when the grid is down. You might say ‘that is great!’, yeah, well, the line technicians who cannot work on damaged cables because you are energizing them think otherwise.
One of the reasons home solar grid-feeding systems are expensive in the US is they have extra equipment to disconnect the system from the grid if the grid goes down. Your house can still have local power, but you won’t be energizing powerlines technicians are trying to fix.
BYD is heavily subsidized by China. Tariffs to offset the Chinese subsidies are reasonable.
O, damnit. Not the last bastion of hope!
Edit: 100% serious. Like Rossmann, Brother was the go-to brand.