It will be likely installed even if disabled, so your eventual malware attacker can enable it and live off the land instead of installing a key/screen that your antivirus might catch.

That was one of the first distros to support Wayland, so it has my begrudging respect.

Yes, the one that got in the top-3 COVID deaths per 100,000 habitants, along with USA and Brazil.

Our current government is guilty of letting 300,000 (officially, 800,000 unofficially) people die because it minimized COVID and refused to implement any significant measures besides improvised hospital beds because its policy is saving money (to recklessly waste elsewhere).

Because medicine shouldn’t become a flea market where you’re gambling your health against profit maximization.

Give pharmaceutical companies a fair price scale where they can profit, don’t let them hyperinflate prices without justification.

It’s not the same if Apple prices their phones at 20,000 USD and you decide you’re buying other brand, pharma plays these extortion games after they have captured enough market/regulation so most people have to pay or stay sick.

It’s like

– Arms dealer: Each tank cost me 500,000 dollars to make. Give me 5 billion for each.

– Let’s negotiate. How about 500 million instead?

– Arms dealer: Fiiine, but only because you’re a good client.

Pro tip: you can use Google’s Verbatim mode to get exactly what you want.

iPhone reveal events have become basically:

a) Offering as new what other brands have offered as standard for years.

b) Offering something new that only works if you buy more Apple.

I have an iPhone, and couldn’t wait for the iOS 17 release so I installed the beta. Underwhelming is the right word, the event has no right to be named “wonderlust”.

Why would Apple go through the effort to offer you new features if it can just deny standard features to older/cheaper models so you pony up for a new phone?

The most innovative thing Apple is no longer the iPad/iPhone, by a long shot. Maybe their VR set, but it’s too early to tell.

You’ll only get more extensions, if anything. The current copyright system is an atavism from older, simpler times.

We changed to USB-C ports because the EU forced us we have courage!

Then maybe unchecked ads weren’t a good idea to begin with.

Ah, but when a subreddit had mostly mods from that 10%, <chef’s kiss>

AskHistorians, AskScience, WhatIsThisThing, etc.

Maybe this is another example of Sturgeon’s law.

Especially your security programs, like third-party antivirus or firewalls. They can install system-level plugins in your browsers, and sometimes those don’t work well. Windows defender and the built in firewall are good enough and play nice with other programs.

“2040: Google had laid off thousands of employees, and hasn’t been able to launch a new product in years”

So, like 2023 Google? It’s happening!

Also, Meta/Facebook tweaking the codebase is not necessary a bad thing. While being mostly evil, it has made significant contributions to open source, maybe wait and see will allow us to copy good ideas… before defederating them, because sooner or later they will get defederated.

I don’t see them as a good Fediverse player, but preemptive defederation, before they even start to show their colors, seems like almost unfair.