I agree with the self sustainability.
I started browsing fediverse a bit back, but there wasn't enough content so I would go back to Reddit (mostly to catch up on news and discussions).
But I'm going to Reddit less and less now as there are more people engaging in fediverse content. I now mostly go back for specific subreddits, but not the general feeds anymore.

Assuming RedHat is the same as my company, Sales and Marketing includes Sales Engineer and Client Implementation. And based on their Jobs page, that is the case. https://www.redhat.com/en/jobs/departments.

RE: CloudFlare TOS, Not anymore. They removed section 2.8 from their TOS, so all content can be served through CloudFlare now, as long as it doesn't use the CDN.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

That's already 23% of their revenue, which is decently high for their size.

(Grabbing larger companies cause it's easy data)
Cloudflare: 18%
Google: 15%
Amazon: 11%
Microsoft: 13%
Apple: 7%
Meta: 21%

Sure they could definitely do better, but by no means are they spending "little".

High growth tech companies typically spend 26% of revenue on R&D, but these are primarily small-mid scale companies that are actively expanding.

The fact remains that RedHat is still one of the top linux kernel contributors in the past years.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/comcast-complains-to-fcc-that-listing-all-of-its-monthly-fees-is-too-hard/
Poor Comcast. This ruling means they need to create 251 new labels. That is SOOOOOO much administrative burden for their company of 190k employees.

Beefy can mean things to different people too. I have a mobile 1660ti and it can generate images in decent times (about 40seconds for a 20iteration image from prompt)

I'm slightly lacking in VRAM though, something 8GB VRAM would allow you to use most models.

You're gonna tear your hair out trying to run AI on a laptop that old.

Definitely either a NAS or a media server would be the best.

If you're into the learning side, like you said a Linux box you don't have to worry of breaking would be good, or something to do with networking. Maybe some home automation, dashboard, etc...

Unfortunately that post title is wrong.
Netflix earnings are only lower than forecasted, but still growing.

WSL is available on Windows Home.
You're thinking about HyperV, not the "Virtual Machine Platform", the former require Pro+, and the latter is available on all (needs to be enabled), and is what enabled WSL, Docker, VirtualBox in HyperV.

Bad naming IMO and misused by many vendors.

That's crazy. 30b is the valuation of RedHat. And they have like 10x the revenue, very steadily growing, very steadily making money, and holds a position in enterprise that is unlikely to fall soon.

Finance undergrad for me to and that number feels really out of touch to me as well.