I'm sure there is a lot going on. Just nothing useful to people just yet. My problem isn't really with tech reporting, it's with the reporters acting like everything is the next big thing.
That is probably the difference between the technically minded, and the crowd most of these stories are written for. Certainly with no good references, and a couple sorta keywords, it sends us on a chase that I haven't gotten to the bottom of yet. I look at the fluff articles as a starting place. The liquid flow battery the army is developing is extremely interesting, which is one thing I've found looking for this battery.
Right and that's not what we're arguing, no matter how insecure they are, you have to connect them to your network in the right manor. The firs thing I would do is to provision a VLAN on my network with full port monitoring, then hook up a firewall to monitor that VLAN, then connect those devices and isolate them so they don't and can't talk to the rest of the network. This would take maybe 1 hour, so being to busy, really isn't an excuse.
Well, let's just hope we get this taken care of before too long. The big trick is going to be coming up with a way for the home users to isolate their machines. There are some ways to start, but the Chinese manufacturers of inexpensive stuff you buy on ebay shipped straight in will be a tough nut to crack.
That right. California, the new state of slave labor!
I'm curious how their secession initiative will go. If they do, there will be the matter of water supply. That could be an issue. I wouldn't expect Colorado or Nevada to be too worked up about it, but if Cali goes, Oregon and Washington State might as well, and be willing to share Columbia river water with Cali. Then Trump will need to extend the concrete curtain by a thousand miles or so. Possibly at that time to keep Americans in, not irreeger imgrunts out.. As for labor? I don't think California citizens have the ass puckering fear of Imgrunts that some folks have.
If you need more examples, I have switched dozens of people from Windows to Linux. MOstly grandma types who are tired of the problems they have with Windows. And some folks who are more adroit, but likewise tired of the hassle.
And if you can't appreciate that the use cases for computer users worldwide is more than a dozen grandmas you've met, then I can't help you. Cognitive dissonance and all that...
And if you use this argument tactic, let us just remember that the issue isn't how many people I switched over, But it is however, that the people I swittched over had the shitz of Windows and now have almost zero issues with Linux Mint. You appear to be incapable of understanding that, my dear chachalaca, and have become wrapped around the axle of numbers, and fail to get the point. I do hope that it is purposeful trolling on your part, and that you do not actually believe that any numerical attributes from any one person somehow wins the argument. Mint is demonstrably easier to work with I've done that demonstration with many supposedlycomputer illiterate people, and with the advent of Windows 10, a lot more stable. If I were to attempt your strange numerical argument, I could say that your denial is but one case. But I wouldn't. Because that would be a dumb argument. Ciao, me chachalaca!
The only other country i've been to is canada and that was only for a few hours to see Niagara Falls but since 9/11 the borders have been closed so you can't even do that now without a passport.
No battery like this on the market is a reason why the home/grid storage market doesn't exist. The grid has been betting on capacitor-based storage so far, since they're not seeing anything else coming along.
They don't make money if you're not replacing your batteries all the time.
These flow batteries are targeted for home and grid storage, which is a market that currently barely exists. No powerful incumbents are being threatened. Utilities would be affected, but in a good way, since more grid storage would diminish the need for unprofitable "peaker" generators.
My thoughts exactly (no mod points today or I would have modded you up as insightful). But you use the term "news" when I get all of my science fiction tech improvements from Slashdot. I've seen many battery and motor announcements that just never seem to make it to the real world. Anyone remember that small extremely efficient motor that was supposedly going to make it to hybrid cars and revolutionize things? What ever happened to that? I can't even find traces of it in the Slashdot archives!
Sure. So what's the point? We supposed to be really pissed off? Or just not try to find breakthroughs? Or just keep the press on total lockdown until an actual breakthrough is put into successful service, a word of it getting out punishable by law if something leaks out? I mean we have a lot of people here on Slashdot who are pissed at the announcement and grousing about it. Has the technology site Slashdot been replaced by the old guys down at the Legion who hate everything? Sit at the bar, drink beer and the world's gone to hell.
This is how science and technology works. If we don't like it, they're saving a seat for y'all and the beer's cold and the conversation grouchy.
I think you're just ignoring the breakthroughs that have been happening.
It's only about 15 years since a laptop was 1.5" thick, weighed 5lb, and had an amazing 2 hour battery life. In only a decade and a half the amount of energy that's been packed into a laptop battery has increased enormously.
This is also hugely visible when you look at power tools. I cordless power drill from 15ish years ago would almost certainly us NiCd batteries, with a life of only an hour or two. Modern power drills will last a full day or more with a battery pack that's substantially smaller, and that charges in a far shorter amount of time.
These folks still think that we are in 15 years ago. Lawns were greener, the gaddamned teenagers stayed off of them. It's called grouchy ass syndrome.
Sure. It just wasn't a hot news item until there was actually a viable product. Batteries, unlike blu-ray constantly make the news even when there's nothing viable to show for it.
So I guess we should just not report promising technology? Seriously, are you people like 85 years old and pissed off about your Ni-Cad stock tanking?
I'm massively skeptical about this report, it doesn't have the ring of veracity - mostly through lack of information. But I actually want to hear about it.
It seems every 6 months I'm turning on the news to witness another "breakthrough" in energy storage that never seems to make it to the consumer market or anywhere else. Wake me when there's a product I can somehow use in my daily life.
Seems like you should tell us exactly what these breakthroughs were then.
You can them like we have been doing for a while. People lived and ate food in the midwest year round long before we got food from CA.
Sounds like you solved the problem. A nice labor intensive crop like that will be picked by proud and employed American workers, leading us to greatness again.
So why are they not doing exactly that now? Not only will the heartland rise up making America Productive and great again, but they will help to crush the communist state of California, which despite it's socialism is the 6th largest economy in the world. Seems like there might be a problem if y'all aren't doing it yet.
Some pretty important data you have there. It would be a pity if something were to happen to it. You can't be too careful these days. By the way, how are the wife and kids doing.
Microsoft shills have become the next generation of denialists. They experience cognitive dissonance when faced with the truth.
Oh this is going to be fun...
My wife has less...
So your experience is based one individual use case? Cognitive dissonance is indeed a powerful force...
What? You take an example and somehow determine that I only have one example?
The irony in your cognitive dissonance comment is truly satisfying. You are exactly correct, though perhaps applying ti to the wrong person. I drove across the state of Florida two days ago. That does not translate to I ave driven across the state of Florida only once, or that I am the only person to ever drive across the state of Florida. I have done that many times, and many people do it.
If you need more examples, I have switched dozens of people from Windows to Linux. MOstly grandma types who are tired of the problems they have with Windows. And some folks who are more adroit, but likewise tired of the hassle.
I knew there was someone out there making an effort to buy all the chips our customers produce, thus keeping me in my job.
I'm a computer guy. I love working with and playing with them. Been curious about these things my entire career. At least to me, it beats the concept of personality determining what you buy. I wonder what my polycomputing outlook makes me?
There is nothing wrong with IoT devices, as I'm currently producing several such devices myself. The problem comes in how you connect them to your network infrastructure.
Nor is their anything wrong with falling off a cliff. Hitting the ground is a different story.
It isn't that these devices can't be made secure. It is that they simply are not secure. Your secure devices does not nullify the (millions) that are out there now, that are so easy to turn into a botnet, that is tuhttps://slashdot.org/rning into the main feature of IoT.
Which is exactly my point. The process by which we make beer (or bread) is very, very non-obvious. 3000 years ago, it's likely they had very different ideas then we do today.
To take an approximate guess of the ingredients and then assume you can recreate the recipe is idiocy.
Some folks find it as fun. I'm not certain why this has your hackles up. It is interesting to see what the ancients ate and drank.
I really don't think that anyone is believing that it is an exact copy. It's a fermented beverage made using the ingredients they sussed out via analytical methods.
So you think you can take 3000 year old residue of beer and figure out what they did 3000 years ao?
You can have a pretty good idea though.
I think you are getting a little wrapped around the axle about the wrong thing. The idea isn't to recreate the exact beer - as you note using other words, how would we even know? The real purpose is to deal with the analytical tools, to come up with likely percentages of ingredients, then throw together a guess and see what bubbles up. A lot of classes have this sort of thing. Build Robots and have a Robo-War. My University has a extended class where Mechanical Engineering students build from the ground up, small racing cars that they then compete with other colleges. They learn a lot while enjoying themselves. They would claim much more than lecture only classrooms. I believe them.
Where I was, there was an army of people supporting Windows, and 1 person supporting OSX - me. And I supported Windows as needed. If everyone switched to OSX, the department would lose almost everyone.
Right...
Everywhere I've worked with multi-platform users (PC & Mac) the Mac admins smugly argue they could support the entire organization by themselves, but they ignore how much work the non-Mac admins do:
Manage file, application, database, web servers
I did that.
Manage end-user authentication
I did that.
Manage network infrastructure
Didn't run copper, but spec'ed and installed an Apple server or two.
Manage internet security
Surely you jest!
Perform daily backups
Hourly.
Mac admins make sure their client machines stay up and users can work with their applications.
Those smug Mac People! I did all of that stuff (except manually running copper) that you extol as proof of the superiority of the Windows ecosystem and it's maintainers, plus knew how to work with Mac's, If I was at all smug, it was because the people whose skillset extended to Windows and nothing but Windows were ready to piss their pants if there was a Mac problem even given to them. It's like a celebration of people knowing less. The less operating systems you know about, the more you can know that the one you do know about is the unparalleled best one.For some folks. I guess.
It looks like there are a lot of potential reasons why PowerPoint docs can be incompatible between platforms. I just found this document which explains why.
All of the reasons why don't make a bit of difference to me. I want it to work. It must work, And if it doesn't work, it gets a big fat fail.
According to the article not all of the reasons are the fault of Microsoft, but simply underlying issues related to the different platforms.
It's rather odd, when the Mac is accused of being a closed system where the software is easily available, I can run Windows OS's flawlessly using bootcamp, and most of all, AO doesn't have that problem on all three platforms. But I understand, Being the big boy on the block for so long, Microsoft and it's proponents don't often admit of fault except for others.
[I know I will get killed on here for being an MS shill but I'm not. Just trying to have a realistic dicussion about the relative merits of different types of professional desktop software in real-world deployments.]
The issue is, there are many real worlds. For a lot of people here, they work in Microsoft only Workplaces. And they are used to Microsoft only problems, so its no big deal. On the other hand, some of us do not work in a monoculture. The deployments become much different in that case.
Sounds about right--part of the entire reason I have those live disks is because I'm not being paid to provide support, and thus prefer to enable DIYing it since I've no incentive to up billable hours. (The other part is that I use them myself.)
THIS! Being retired now, I want to help people, but I don't want to own every problem they have, and I want to get them fixed and get out.
Now that being said, if I was a paid support guy, you can damn well bet I will tell people they need to install and use Windows 10. That way I have a built in return market.
All I can say is thank heavens for Teamviewer. I've come to the point where I explain to them what the problems are while I'm doing the Teamviewer session. I've found a lot of them have tried troubleshooting - especially with audio problems - and insist that since Windows said there was no problem, that there was no problem.
And that includes a couple assholes who got pissed off at me because I told them they couldn't depend on Windows troubleshooting. A funny world where people ask for free help, and be a jerk to the person helping them.
Who the hell would put an IoT device in the same VLAN with other network equipment? "Professionals" who cause these massive security issues and effectively shoot themselves in the foot deserve every second of pain and hardship they run into.
Damn near everyone who is stupid enough to use IoT devices in the first place. Or employers who are stupid enough to force them to use them.
As someone who has used Linux as their main operating system for many, many years and who has built Linux systems for many others (non-Linux users) I can only say that you're wrong. Accept that in many if not most cases proprietary software like Microsoft Office is simply better than free alternatives because the company has vastly more resources to dedicate towards its development and also more resources to ensure that it is stable.
I need software that produces exactly compatible documents across differnet computer and different Operating systems. If it cannot do exactly that, I will have a very very hard sell telling people that they need to use Microsoft because it is superior, but that they cannot use MacOS or Linux computers.
So you just go on saying that I am wrong, Anyhow, would you like to speak to them and tell them that the superior office software requires all that expenditure? Tell me exactly what they get, when they have what they need now? You must have all the information. Start it out by telling 5 different groups that they have to ditch their ecosystem, and spend a huge amount of money to get exactly what works for them now.
The idea of the free software model is some magical formula that is automatically better than everything - that idea breaks down very quickly in the desktop application world.
That's a different argument. We have different operating systems that are in use because the different operating systems have different features.
For instance - I use MacOS because the software I need to use is not available on Windows - what there is isn't as high a quality or as tightly integrated. Some people like and use Windows, and some like Linux and tools availble on it. Some just were burnt by the Windows Vista debacle, and had enough of it since Windows 8. But one thing we need is for reports and spreadsheets and slideshows to move between all of these without any changes. We used to have to re-do most of PowePoint Documents and Word files just going between Microsoft Office on teh PC to Office on the Mac.
So forgive me if you pronounce me wrong and I reject it after I implemented a solution that works seamlessly. A solution implemented because your presumed superior one didn't work at all.
Slashdot Mirror
So we'll be able to see all the butthurt Democrats whining on our televisions too!
I'm sure there is a lot going on. Just nothing useful to people just yet. My problem isn't really with tech reporting, it's with the reporters acting like everything is the next big thing.
That is probably the difference between the technically minded, and the crowd most of these stories are written for. Certainly with no good references, and a couple sorta keywords, it sends us on a chase that I haven't gotten to the bottom of yet. I look at the fluff articles as a starting place. The liquid flow battery the army is developing is extremely interesting, which is one thing I've found looking for this battery.
Right and that's not what we're arguing, no matter how insecure they are, you have to connect them to your network in the right manor. The firs thing I would do is to provision a VLAN on my network with full port monitoring, then hook up a firewall to monitor that VLAN, then connect those devices and isolate them so they don't and can't talk to the rest of the network. This would take maybe 1 hour, so being to busy, really isn't an excuse.
Well, let's just hope we get this taken care of before too long. The big trick is going to be coming up with a way for the home users to isolate their machines. There are some ways to start, but the Chinese manufacturers of inexpensive stuff you buy on ebay shipped straight in will be a tough nut to crack.
That right. California, the new state of slave labor!
I'm curious how their secession initiative will go. If they do, there will be the matter of water supply. That could be an issue. I wouldn't expect Colorado or Nevada to be too worked up about it, but if Cali goes, Oregon and Washington State might as well, and be willing to share Columbia river water with Cali. Then Trump will need to extend the concrete curtain by a thousand miles or so. Possibly at that time to keep Americans in, not irreeger imgrunts out.. As for labor? I don't think California citizens have the ass puckering fear of Imgrunts that some folks have.
If you need more examples, I have switched dozens of people from Windows to Linux. MOstly grandma types who are tired of the problems they have with Windows. And some folks who are more adroit, but likewise tired of the hassle.
And if you can't appreciate that the use cases for computer users worldwide is more than a dozen grandmas you've met, then I can't help you. Cognitive dissonance and all that...
And if you use this argument tactic, let us just remember that the issue isn't how many people I switched over, But it is however, that the people I swittched over had the shitz of Windows and now have almost zero issues with Linux Mint. You appear to be incapable of understanding that, my dear chachalaca, and have become wrapped around the axle of numbers, and fail to get the point. I do hope that it is purposeful trolling on your part, and that you do not actually believe that any numerical attributes from any one person somehow wins the argument. Mint is demonstrably easier to work with I've done that demonstration with many supposedlycomputer illiterate people, and with the advent of Windows 10, a lot more stable. If I were to attempt your strange numerical argument, I could say that your denial is but one case. But I wouldn't. Because that would be a dumb argument. Ciao, me chachalaca!
Great news but I live in Canada. Any battery tech needs to be testing at -30 Celsius before I care.
And I live in Texas where we need to survive at nearly 90 Celsius when leaving a phone in your car in August...
Between you and I, That's quite the temperature range...
You figure that whatever we end up with must operate at all possible temperatures?
The only other country i've been to is canada and that was only for a few hours to see Niagara Falls but since 9/11 the borders have been closed so you can't even do that now without a passport.
Why would you even post bullshit like that?
which is a market that currently barely exists
No battery like this on the market is a reason why the home/grid storage market doesn't exist. The grid has been betting on capacitor-based storage so far, since they're not seeing anything else coming along.
Check out what Los Angeles is doing.
They don't make money if you're not replacing your batteries all the time.
These flow batteries are targeted for home and grid storage, which is a market that currently barely exists. No powerful incumbents are being threatened. Utilities would be affected, but in a good way, since more grid storage would diminish the need for unprofitable "peaker" generators.
But it isn't coal, the official fuel of Slashdot.
My thoughts exactly (no mod points today or I would have modded you up as insightful). But you use the term "news" when I get all of my science fiction tech improvements from Slashdot. I've seen many battery and motor announcements that just never seem to make it to the real world. Anyone remember that small extremely efficient motor that was supposedly going to make it to hybrid cars and revolutionize things? What ever happened to that? I can't even find traces of it in the Slashdot archives!
Sure. So what's the point? We supposed to be really pissed off? Or just not try to find breakthroughs? Or just keep the press on total lockdown until an actual breakthrough is put into successful service, a word of it getting out punishable by law if something leaks out? I mean we have a lot of people here on Slashdot who are pissed at the announcement and grousing about it. Has the technology site Slashdot been replaced by the old guys down at the Legion who hate everything? Sit at the bar, drink beer and the world's gone to hell.
This is how science and technology works. If we don't like it, they're saving a seat for y'all and the beer's cold and the conversation grouchy.
I think you're just ignoring the breakthroughs that have been happening.
It's only about 15 years since a laptop was 1.5" thick, weighed 5lb, and had an amazing 2 hour battery life. In only a decade and a half the amount of energy that's been packed into a laptop battery has increased enormously.
This is also hugely visible when you look at power tools. I cordless power drill from 15ish years ago would almost certainly us NiCd batteries, with a life of only an hour or two. Modern power drills will last a full day or more with a battery pack that's substantially smaller, and that charges in a far shorter amount of time.
These folks still think that we are in 15 years ago. Lawns were greener, the gaddamned teenagers stayed off of them. It's called grouchy ass syndrome.
Sure. It just wasn't a hot news item until there was actually a viable product. Batteries, unlike blu-ray constantly make the news even when there's nothing viable to show for it.
So I guess we should just not report promising technology? Seriously, are you people like 85 years old and pissed off about your Ni-Cad stock tanking?
I'm massively skeptical about this report, it doesn't have the ring of veracity - mostly through lack of information. But I actually want to hear about it.
I tend to lend these people more credence - http://news.mit.edu/2014/liqui... or these http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix... even if they are a little loose with the "unlimited" http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix.... A lotta stuff going on, despite what teh Slashdot denial crowd believes. Then again, maybe we need to suit up and get to the coal mines.
It seems every 6 months I'm turning on the news to witness another "breakthrough" in energy storage that never seems to make it to the consumer market or anywhere else. Wake me when there's a product I can somehow use in my daily life.
Seems like you should tell us exactly what these breakthroughs were then.
If you want tomatoes in January,
You can them like we have been doing for a while. People lived and ate food in the midwest year round long before we got food from CA.
Sounds like you solved the problem. A nice labor intensive crop like that will be picked by proud and employed American workers, leading us to greatness again.
So why are they not doing exactly that now? Not only will the heartland rise up making America Productive and great again, but they will help to crush the communist state of California, which despite it's socialism is the 6th largest economy in the world. Seems like there might be a problem if y'all aren't doing it yet.
Some pretty important data you have there. It would be a pity if something were to happen to it. You can't be too careful these days. By the way, how are the wife and kids doing.
Microsoft shills have become the next generation of denialists. They experience cognitive dissonance when faced with the truth.
Oh this is going to be fun... My wife has less ...
So your experience is based one individual use case? Cognitive dissonance is indeed a powerful force...
What? You take an example and somehow determine that I only have one example?
The irony in your cognitive dissonance comment is truly satisfying. You are exactly correct, though perhaps applying ti to the wrong person. I drove across the state of Florida two days ago. That does not translate to I ave driven across the state of Florida only once, or that I am the only person to ever drive across the state of Florida. I have done that many times, and many people do it.
If you need more examples, I have switched dozens of people from Windows to Linux. MOstly grandma types who are tired of the problems they have with Windows. And some folks who are more adroit, but likewise tired of the hassle.
thanks.
I knew there was someone out there making an effort to buy all the chips our customers produce, thus keeping me in my job.
I'm a computer guy. I love working with and playing with them. Been curious about these things my entire career. At least to me, it beats the concept of personality determining what you buy. I wonder what my polycomputing outlook makes me?
I know - an asshole! 8^)
There is nothing wrong with IoT devices, as I'm currently producing several such devices myself. The problem comes in how you connect them to your network infrastructure.
Nor is their anything wrong with falling off a cliff. Hitting the ground is a different story.
It isn't that these devices can't be made secure. It is that they simply are not secure. Your secure devices does not nullify the (millions) that are out there now, that are so easy to turn into a botnet, that is tuhttps://slashdot.org/rning into the main feature of IoT.
Which is exactly my point. The process by which we make beer (or bread) is very, very non-obvious. 3000 years ago, it's likely they had very different ideas then we do today. To take an approximate guess of the ingredients and then assume you can recreate the recipe is idiocy.
Some folks find it as fun. I'm not certain why this has your hackles up. It is interesting to see what the ancients ate and drank.
I really don't think that anyone is believing that it is an exact copy. It's a fermented beverage made using the ingredients they sussed out via analytical methods.
So you think you can take 3000 year old residue of beer and figure out what they did 3000 years ao?
You can have a pretty good idea though.
I think you are getting a little wrapped around the axle about the wrong thing. The idea isn't to recreate the exact beer - as you note using other words, how would we even know? The real purpose is to deal with the analytical tools, to come up with likely percentages of ingredients, then throw together a guess and see what bubbles up. A lot of classes have this sort of thing. Build Robots and have a Robo-War. My University has a extended class where Mechanical Engineering students build from the ground up, small racing cars that they then compete with other colleges. They learn a lot while enjoying themselves. They would claim much more than lecture only classrooms. I believe them.
Right...
Everywhere I've worked with multi-platform users (PC & Mac) the Mac admins smugly argue they could support the entire organization by themselves, but they ignore how much work the non-Mac admins do:
Manage file, application, database, web servers
I did that.
Manage end-user authentication
I did that.
Manage network infrastructure
Didn't run copper, but spec'ed and installed an Apple server or two.
Manage internet security
Surely you jest!
Perform daily backups
Hourly.
Mac admins make sure their client machines stay up and users can work with their applications.
Those smug Mac People! I did all of that stuff (except manually running copper) that you extol as proof of the superiority of the Windows ecosystem and it's maintainers, plus knew how to work with Mac's, If I was at all smug, it was because the people whose skillset extended to Windows and nothing but Windows were ready to piss their pants if there was a Mac problem even given to them. It's like a celebration of people knowing less. The less operating systems you know about, the more you can know that the one you do know about is the unparalleled best one.For some folks. I guess.
It looks like there are a lot of potential reasons why PowerPoint docs can be incompatible between platforms. I just found this document which explains why.
All of the reasons why don't make a bit of difference to me. I want it to work. It must work, And if it doesn't work, it gets a big fat fail.
According to the article not all of the reasons are the fault of Microsoft, but simply underlying issues related to the different platforms.
It's rather odd, when the Mac is accused of being a closed system where the software is easily available, I can run Windows OS's flawlessly using bootcamp, and most of all, AO doesn't have that problem on all three platforms. But I understand, Being the big boy on the block for so long, Microsoft and it's proponents don't often admit of fault except for others.
[I know I will get killed on here for being an MS shill but I'm not. Just trying to have a realistic dicussion about the relative merits of different types of professional desktop software in real-world deployments.]
The issue is, there are many real worlds. For a lot of people here, they work in Microsoft only Workplaces. And they are used to Microsoft only problems, so its no big deal. On the other hand, some of us do not work in a monoculture. The deployments become much different in that case.
Sounds about right--part of the entire reason I have those live disks is because I'm not being paid to provide support, and thus prefer to enable DIYing it since I've no incentive to up billable hours. (The other part is that I use them myself.)
THIS! Being retired now, I want to help people, but I don't want to own every problem they have, and I want to get them fixed and get out.
Now that being said, if I was a paid support guy, you can damn well bet I will tell people they need to install and use Windows 10. That way I have a built in return market.
All I can say is thank heavens for Teamviewer. I've come to the point where I explain to them what the problems are while I'm doing the Teamviewer session. I've found a lot of them have tried troubleshooting - especially with audio problems - and insist that since Windows said there was no problem, that there was no problem.
And that includes a couple assholes who got pissed off at me because I told them they couldn't depend on Windows troubleshooting. A funny world where people ask for free help, and be a jerk to the person helping them.
Who the hell would put an IoT device in the same VLAN with other network equipment? "Professionals" who cause these massive security issues and effectively shoot themselves in the foot deserve every second of pain and hardship they run into.
Damn near everyone who is stupid enough to use IoT devices in the first place. Or employers who are stupid enough to force them to use them.
This is what happens when you tell scientists to go step on a LIGO
As someone who has used Linux as their main operating system for many, many years and who has built Linux systems for many others (non-Linux users) I can only say that you're wrong. Accept that in many if not most cases proprietary software like Microsoft Office is simply better than free alternatives because the company has vastly more resources to dedicate towards its development and also more resources to ensure that it is stable.
I need software that produces exactly compatible documents across differnet computer and different Operating systems. If it cannot do exactly that, I will have a very very hard sell telling people that they need to use Microsoft because it is superior, but that they cannot use MacOS or Linux computers.
So you just go on saying that I am wrong, Anyhow, would you like to speak to them and tell them that the superior office software requires all that expenditure? Tell me exactly what they get, when they have what they need now? You must have all the information. Start it out by telling 5 different groups that they have to ditch their ecosystem, and spend a huge amount of money to get exactly what works for them now.
The idea of the free software model is some magical formula that is automatically better than everything - that idea breaks down very quickly in the desktop application world.
That's a different argument. We have different operating systems that are in use because the different operating systems have different features.
For instance - I use MacOS because the software I need to use is not available on Windows - what there is isn't as high a quality or as tightly integrated. Some people like and use Windows, and some like Linux and tools availble on it. Some just were burnt by the Windows Vista debacle, and had enough of it since Windows 8. But one thing we need is for reports and spreadsheets and slideshows to move between all of these without any changes. We used to have to re-do most of PowePoint Documents and Word files just going between Microsoft Office on teh PC to Office on the Mac.
So forgive me if you pronounce me wrong and I reject it after I implemented a solution that works seamlessly. A solution implemented because your presumed superior one didn't work at all.