Also, Google promises never to use your personal emails to train its publicly-accessible AI, wink wink.

Canada has a slightly higher population than California. Facebook didn't pull out of Canada; it just pulled an asshole move and made it impossible to link to news sites (which actually improved the quality of my feed, but I digress...)

I don't think many tech companies would easily give up a California-sized market.

Actually, Canada (with a population of 40 million) is pretty much exactly California (population about 40 million.)

Why just video games? Why not any product that requires an Internet connection to work, where being on the Internet isn't part of its core functionality? Smart plugs, smart appliances, smart thermostats... I'm looking at you.

This is a badly thought-out petition.

LOL!!!!

When I started my career, I bought a house. The house cost about 3X my annual salary. Today, houses are more like 10X or more the average annual salary, at least in Canada where I live. And in large Canadian cities, the median income is way below what is recommended to afford the median rent.

I strongly suggest you watch Scott Galloway describing How the US is Destroying Young People's Future. Applies in many other countries too.

I'm retired, so I have no skin in this game, other than feeling saddened by how my generation has shafted today's generation.

This is actually untrue. People lived much more brutish and squalid lives with the advent of agriculture. Agriculture and technology eventually improved our lives, but in the beginning it was pretty disastrous to our health and quality of life.

Raspberry Pis are meant for hobbyists who are willing to learn. Not for people who can only use GUIs.

Economics isn't everything. The goal of a society should be to maximize happiness and well-being, not goods, buying power, supply or demand.

Clearly, we need some goods, buying power and economic activity to be happy, but I don't think that anyone has proven that 5 days per week is the sweet spot rather than 4. (I think we do have proof that more than 5 is worse, though.)

Before I retired, I worked for about a year for 4 days per week at 80% of my normal salary. Honestly, I don't think I'd have been any more productive if I'd have worked the extra day. I would have just daydreamed and wasted time more, because the dirty secret of white-collar jobs is that a lot of time is wasted.

That said, this was when I was at the end of my career in a very senior role, and I had decades of experience that made me very productive. Still, I don't see why a 5-day workweek should be some sort of Holy Grail. In pre-agricultural times, humans worked about 15-20 hours per week to sustain themselves and that worked out just fine. I think our society could easily cope with a 4-day workweek without the sky falling.

I have four Pis doing various things. I manage them all via SSH and the CLI. Only one of them even runs a display server, and that's because I use it as a news and weather display ticker in my living room.

What on Earth is the use-case for managing a Rasberry Pi with a graphical desktop? The mind boggles!

Oh, Mastodon is not by any means currently a successful competitor to Twitter.

All it has to do is not be killed off before Twitter finally implodes. Whether that takes a couple of years or a couple of decades, I don't know.

Except nothing can kill off Mastodon. It's like Linux was in the 1990s: seen as a toy, a non-serious competitor to UNIX or Windows. But because nothing could kill it off, that didn't matter, and it eventually grew to dominate the server space and the mobile device space, and is starting to get a toehold on the desktop.

And yes, Linux's desktop market share is currently small, but nothing can kill it off...

Nothing can kill it off is the secret super-power of open software.

Am I the only one who reads "Bluesky" to rhyme with "Russkiy"?

So it looks like Mastodon was the right choice for me after all.