That’s just unfair. You’re completely discounting this list of excellent, well supported software products created by legacy car companies:

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I believe you actually can donate to yours and other instances!

He’s building that insane clock in the desert, does that count?

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

That is 100% a chatbot using a regex email validator someone wrote as a meme that the chipotle dev copied from stack overflow without context.

Elon Logic: One site, one SRE. Genius.

He gets more cursed the taller he gets

If the world was fair, steaming turds would have started flopping out of his mouth as soon as he started talking.

Would…would you prefer the beating continue?

ಠ_ಠ

It’s a nice suit! It’s what’s inside that counts though.

Like his suit is the only thing keeping all manner of pure evil from bursting forth and wriggling all over the podium?

Yes, very creepy vibes.

Your assumption that an Ad must be to sell a thing is false.

IBM engages in brand campaigns to simply get their name out there as a company that can do anything you need.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-02-16-With-Lets-create,-IBM-Launches-Brand-Campaign-to-Accelerate-Innovation-with-Clients-and-Partners

You’d be amazed. They’ve directly or indirectly been contributors to open source pretty much since open source was a thing.

https://www.ibm.com/opensource/community-involvement/

Plus, you probably use several services that use IBM. Much like AWS, they aim to be a silent integral part of the infra and utilities of as many companies as possible. Lots of government involvement as well

When there’s a meeting and some higher up says “We need FOO to do BAR”, and the middle manager glances over at the tech lead to answer, they’re gonna say “I’ll see what $CURRENT_PROVIDER has to offer.” Then the middle manager will interject “Ah, and we’ll check $COMPETITOR[0] to see if we can save some cash”.

Those ads are aimed at making sure IBM is in the zeroeth index of the middle managers COMPETITOR array.

(Also making sure people who currently use IBM feel good about themselves)

Republican feelings. About anything really.

if only it could have been proposition 40

I know this answer is flippant and dickish, but:

python3 -m http.server 80

shadowsocks seems to be the best way for now.

they’re also twice the price of a regular truck if you want any kind of usable range, which is the worst part. I don’t need a truck that can do a 2.9s quarter mile, I need one that I can drive 200 miles in one direction, park for a week, and then drive home, on a route with no chargers.

Ah, I couldn’t find any recent news articles for this, so I was just trying to figure out why this was news to op.