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  • I don’t know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days when there’s Unix/Linux

    None of our end users know how to use Unix/Linux… MacOS or Chrome books would be more likely looking at the youngest in the work force.

    Everything else you listed basically comes down to end user / power user preferences. 99% of our end users barely remember what to click on if it is not on their desktop.

    Like, I don’t know why any serious company would use Windows with this in mind

    Being able to mass configure, secure and monitor all devices with many different vendor tools remotely is nice. Have you ever tried to manage a fleet of Linux laptops in the field?


  • now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient

    sounds good

    but we really know what it is actually going to be used for

    Contradicts the first statement and the next statement

    They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI.

    OK you do know what they want to use it for.

    But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It’s not like you can train someone who’s a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse.

    Highly untrainable people have always existed and are always the first to get replaced.

    But it should be pretty obvious that you can’t run an entire society with no jobs.

    Well not one based on capitalism.

    The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don’t have jobs and no income, not able to survive…

    Well the ones that can’t do research and can’t look up history maybe. AI is the new Robots, is the new assembly line is the new…

    You are just using the age old technology fear narrative.

    When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites (2017)