If they shut down their gaming operation and instead decide to stuff money into bonds, where would that $5B even come from?

As said elsewhere in the thread:

> You’re saying that they should take the money people pay to buy Xboxes and put it in T-bills instead of delivering Xboxes?

ROI lags. If they laid off 90% of the Xbox division and left only enough to keep the lights on (they don't run their own factories I guess), then they'd still get nearly the same amount of income the next year with far lower costs. Of course revenue would start to sharply decline as the number of games produced was much lower, as the tech became obsolete. But it's not like revenue would evaporate instantly.

So they could do that and invest the income they still get into bonds, and then that would be where the returns come from.

They don't want to do that obviously, hence why Xbox needs reform.

> If they shut down their gaming operation and instead decide to stuff money into bonds, where would that $5B even come from?

Wherever it comes from now! They're spending about $4.85B to bring in $5B.

The money they’re not spending on the Xbox every year!

I agree we'd all be better off if SpaceX figured out how to send Musk to Mars ASAP.

None, unless someone is renewing their certificates only 2 hours before they expire, which is a dumb thing to do.

That's why they take incidents like this seriously and stop issuance until it's fixed. They could get kicked out of trusted roots otherwise.

What do you even mean by LLM help??

And imagine the numbers if downgrading was possible...

It's just like gambling addiction.

Why are you even encrypting? What's the threat model it's protecting against? Clearly it's not "prevent me from reading your data" since you have access to the keys anyway.

KDE Connect sends data directly between your devices, while QuickClip sends data through QuickClip servers using useless encryption.

Privacy minded user : "Eh... what, no."

VC funding surveillance capitalism startups : "Here, take my money!"

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They made significant changes to the bootloader with the explicit goal of allowing boot of third-party operating systems.

Unless you can find a way to implement U-Boot on Apple Silicon, they can make more significant changes with no easy opt-out.