Because Zuckerberg is actually one of the worst billionaires alive, but he doesn’t make (as much of) a spectacle of himself like Musk or Bezos, so people forget and keep using his products.

We don’t have people going “Stop using Facebook/Instagram/Threads! Why are you still using it!?” like we do the people who say the same about Xitter every time it comes up, because Musk is actively out here saying the quiet part out loud so people are more upset about that despite Xitter having less influence, realistically.

If I had any hair I’d be tearing it out because this has been readily apparent this was going to be the plan going forward since January 7th, 2021.

I’m so tired of it being screamed from the rooftops and everyday it feels like the media forgot entirely about all of it.

1. No.

2. No.

3. No.

Because they hate their customers and want the mouse to become junk you have to replace when the mouse goes dead. It’s a finesse in planned obsolescence, same as the first time.

It’s purposeful. It’s to force you to buy a new one.

A mouse with a normal charging cable placement can still be used by being plugged in when the battery goes dead.

This mouse, with the charging port on the bottom, becomes unusable once its battery goes dead.

No, it’s because Apple hates it’s customers and is happy to bilk them.

That said, they do make some very nice things, but participate in so much anti-consumer nonsense (not that that’s any different from any other major corporation).

What do you think?

I think I prefer JPEG-XL

Looking at what you quoted, that’s fair and can see how you misread it as such. I am sorry I said that it was purposeful.

Way to purposefully misread it.

The whole issue is that the Russians work for companies with sanctions against them.

So, treat all companies involved in war the same way, and you’ll never run into this hypocritical issue again.

There’s plenty of companies (like Valve) who don’t directly produce weapons of war or have contracts with their governments for war-services who contribute to Linux that could still do so, and plenty of individuals who don’t work for military and military adjacent companies to contribute.

Acting like removing people who work at companies that contribute to wars will mean no one can contribute is obviously a grossly exaggerated misinterpretation.

That’s literally what I suggested elsewhere here: If you work for ANY company in ANY country that produces weapons for war for ANY government, that they shouldn’t be allowed to contribute.

Because that at the very least would be consistent.

US isn’t helping fund a genocide in Israel or anything! /s

Yeah must suck to live in Israel.

Are we going to remove Israel maintainers from the list since IDF soldiers are using Palestinians as human shields?

Oh, no, because US is okay with that genocide?

It’s really more about how clearly fucking hypocritical it is.

But folks who work for US companies building weapons for Israel are totes okay?

It’s honestly fucking wild that an internationally developed open source project has to play by the US government’s rules when the US government is out here helping commit genocide right the fuck now.

Like, look in the fucking mirror on this why don’t you.

Maybe the better rule is that if you work for a company that produces weaponry for war you shouldn’t be allowed to contribute, period.

This is why there hasn’t been a refresh on the Valve Index: not enough interest, not enough games. Half Life Alyx is still one of the few major games with any depth to them in the market, and you can’t access it easily outside of the Steam ecosystem. In other words, it’s unavailable for a lot of VR headsets. They aren’t going to dump more resources into more VR games if people aren’t buying the headsets or the games.

Steam Deck on the other hand? Huuuuuuge market, people want that shit.

Tomb Raider 2013 really didn’t have to go that hard, but god damn it, it did.

Eh, I’d say the biggest learning curve is updates and how they’re generally password protected.

It’s actually not straightforward to a new Linux user how to bypass entering your password every time there are updates, and with how often Linux updates, this can create headaches and confusion for new users.

Especially with coming from Windows and being used to Microsoft arbitrarily forcing updates in the background. They are confused because Microsoft gave them zero control, while Linux actually gives them full control, and that can be confusing when you’re used to updates being forced on you in the background.

Linux expects you to be an adult and handle this shit, and does a lot less hand-holding for the casual user, and this can be overwhelming for some new users, because it’s a lot of extra personal responsibility they formerly didn’t have to think about. Some people just don’t have the extra mental energy to dedicate to it all.

Due to the increasingly high cost of living, more and more consider the alternative.

That NSA data center in Utah has been around since the Bush years. None of it was “new” when watch_dogs came out, it just wasn’t in the public consciousness. Most of the stuff was happening or being developed at the time.

The year checks out.