Embrace extend extinguish is a well known pattern microslop uses to kill open source alternatives. You’re right it was already big which is why they embraced it (we’re both agreeing here) all I’m saying is they make sure it’s impossible to develop an alternative due to network effects and vendor default lock in. “Embrace extend extinguish” is From their own internal communications found during discovery.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Microsoft embraced github by buying it. They extended the features and ease of use to where it’s the primary website people use for sharing and collaborating on code. Now it extinguishes any alternative.

Vagueposting clickbait? On the internet!? For views and clicks!?! The website is AIDS it’s so full of ads!?

Continue the war: eventual collapse and civil war

Stop the war: collapse of your wartime economy and guaranteed civil war

Yeah they’re fuck fucked. The best possible outcome for Russia is to become a client state of China somehow. How you manage to self-own this hard is honestly impressive. It’s also funny that Trump seems to be competing against Putin to see who can choke on a bigger dick of consequences.

Also this is like mandating printers that can’t print pictures of dicks

I have a ship of Theseus rig. It’s the same case I got from my dad when he first built his PC in 2014. I’ve replaced every part in this thing at least once. I tend to keep HDDs until they don’t hold enough for me to want them anymore. I use ZFS to manage my bulk storage drives so Im never concerned when a drive dies. A hot spare starts resilvering right away.