only give you a single core

And boy would that core be shitty and over-provisioned.

If I understand correctly gzip, brotli and similar are best used to compress text.

Compression algos should be used on uncompressed data. Using them on already compressed data (most video, images, music formats) is generally useless.

Why 28Kb though?

I thought it’s something to do with ducks at first.

IrfanView. Nothing comes even close. I would probably move to Linux if not for that.

I am sober and serious.

At least it’s better than Slack and Discord. Still shit of course, but it could be worse.

Twitter currently has $1.5 billion/year deficit which is a lot, even for Musk, to bankroll.

Check Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox by Lina Khan (FTC). A very detailed review of how Amazon is a monopoly and how they dodge antitrust legislation.

That’s not how it works. Or, rather, that’s not only how it works. Sure, advertisers dream of users who see an ad once and run to buy a product. But ad effects are spread over time. They build brand recognition. They fake familiarity. Say you are in a supermarket and you want to buy a new type of product that you haven’t bought before. Very likely you’ll pick something familiar-sounding, which you heard in an ad. Ads pollute the mind even if the most obvious effects are, well, obvious and easily discarded, more subtle influence remains.

Exactly!

Gutting defeated/ousted manager’s projects is an obligatory and unavoidable ritual in corporate environment. Competent or convenient employees are pulled into other teams, pesky/unconvenient ICs are fired since everything can be pinned on the loser. Projects are often dismantled - even profitable ones to remove any possible foothold for a comeback. Shit, now I want to write a corpo book but styled like high school biology textbook.

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it’s now your desktop computer.

Mobile apps are shit for that. Sure, my phone is powerful enough to browse internet, play video and music but on desktop with mouse/kb it’s just weird and funky. And I’m not even talking about any productivity software which is straight impossible.