I'm probably spitting in the wind, but stuff like this is why I removed all my hosted open source projects. I manage several niche projects that I have now converted to binary only releases (to almost no push back). It's niche enough that it's not very hard to get LLMs to output chunks of code that it managed to scrape before I took it offline. I don't see many people talking about this angle, but LLMs ripping off my work killed my open source efforts.
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stagger87 commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
My story is simpler. Microsoft dropped the support for Windows 10 and gave me no upgrade path to Windows 11 because my CPU was 5 years too old apparently.
So I installed Fedora on that machine, I learned the process, I went through the hurdles. It wasn’t seamless. But, Fedora never said “I can’t”. When it was over, it was fine.
Only if Microsoft had just let me install Windows 11 and suffer whatever the perf problem my CPU would bring. Then I could consider a hardware upgrade then, maybe.
But, “you can’t install unless you upgrade your CPU” forced me to adopt Linux. More importantly, it gave me a story to tell.
There is a marketing lesson there somewhere, like Torvalds’ famous “you don’t break userspace”, something along the lines of “you don’t break the upgrade path”.
Why did you want to install windows 11 anyways? I also have a PC stuck on Windows 10 and it makes me happy that it's now stable and not part of the forced rolling releases in Win11. Im going to run it on Win10 as long as I can.
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Great work making this available for sale. NI and Keysight are the only two traditional vendors of this kind of thing and they’re priced close to $1k these days. There are tons of knock-offs on Ebay that won’t last more than a few months if they ever work.
FWIW, You can buy legit used 82357s for quite a bit less than 1k. Anecdotally, I've never had one fail in 20 years. Probably bought a dozen over that time frame. All used daily.
stagger87 commented on Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot theregister.com/2025/10/1... · Posted by u/mikece
They’re so desperate to make it work.
> “A source that has seen materials related to sales has confirmed that, as of August 2025, Microsoft has around eight million active licensed users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, amounting to a 1.81% conversion rate across the 440 million Microsoft 365 subscribers.”
Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476045 - October 2025
I seem to remember a similar arc with Cortana. Didn't it briefly appear everywhere in MS365?
The article implies that it's not a liquidation or bankruptcy, though, just a sale.
I don't know how you can buy a company without buying its stock from the shareholders, given that they are the owners of the company, but there must be some special circumstance that's not mentioned in the article.
I agree with you and don't know enough to speak authoritatively. That being said, I did find this definition of liquidation (below). The article hints the business was in trouble, the way I'm reading it, if the sale doesn't cover all obligations, its would be a liquidation.
"Business liquidation involves selling off a company’s assets, such as equipment, inventory, and real estate, and using the proceeds to pay off debts and obligations. This process usually occurs when a business is no longer profitable, facing insurmountable financial challenges, or the owner decides to retire or pursue other opportunities."
> “All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration”
How is this even legal?
"In a liquidation, common stockholders receive whatever assets remain after creditors, bondholders, and preferred stockholders are paid."
Coupled with what sounds like an already bad financial state of the company... I'm not claiming no foul play, but it looks like there is a reasonable avenue for what is happening.
stagger87 commented on Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men edwardconard.com/macro-ro... · Posted by u/andrewstetsenko
Yet there's a major shortage of Real Men for skilled engineering jobs.[1]
The kind of jobs that require a hard hat. Not enough people are going to college and then taking jobs like that.
Read through the titles on Edward Conard's page. Too many college grads, too few going into tough industries, and too many young people collecting disability.
[1] https://www.edwardconard.com/macro-roundup/aging-populations...
> "young people collecting disability."
Can you elaborate?
stagger87 commented on Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit lopespm.com/hardware/2025... · Posted by u/lopespm
Is getting a kit like this the recommended way to learn electronics? I don't know anything about it! I would like to get to the point where I can light up a LED bulb programmatically and understand how it's happening.
There is no one way to learn electronics. The Arduino will hold your hand through lighting up an LED, but depending on how much depth you want, may not teach you how it's happening. Working with an Arduino is like bowling with bumpers, which is a good place to start.