Apple had a culture of authenticity. Culture dies pretty hard in most cases. I think we will see the last of that culture dissipate, as it eroded so greatly under Cook and Ive. Then the extractive, enshittifying corruption will spread from Apple, too.

There really was something, that began with Jobs and Woz. It wasn't perfect, and Jobs had a way of twisting ethical stances in ends-justifying-means sophistry. But Steve Jobs would never have prostrated before Trump, proffering a solid gold token.

Oh, you want profit? This is a surveillance spyware wrapper around the entire MacOS user experience - so if you thought Microsoft's Copilot Recall was invasive monitoring, you haven't seen anything yet.

If Apple won't monetize a user panopticon and partner with governments to do it, OpenAI will be right there, to take the cash.

I will argue against strict adherence to this statement. Gnome applications written to the project guidelines have become very fine, since the introduction of GTK-4 and libadwaita. I prefer many of these to their equivalents on MacOS.

It's true that most of these fall into a general category of "utilities", and that Windows enjoys a broader ecosystem driven by commercial incentive. But Windows programs are hardly "better' for this, and the widely varied usability is generally sub-par compared to level that's become norm for Gnome/Adwaita software.

Not an urban legend when the ability to do so is far from ubiquitous. It is also in their interest to make you think this is all working properly when it's not.

This is well known. So are all of the warehouses full of CRTs that someone got paid to take and then abaondoned them in their leased warehouse. Plastic recycling barely happens. Paper and cardboard batches are routinely thrown out because of greasy food containers.........

We've all been getting this BS recycling thing pushed on us for decades. I'm not saying nothing is happening, but its in very few places and very few things that are actually getting recycled. And, surprise, it's the easy stuff. We're just trucking and shipping the rest around for no good reason (but people sure are making money off of it!).

Real recycling programs are difficult (for the processors and the consumers) and expensive. SF is (or at least was) a good example of what a more meaningful recycling program looks like, but even they can't do much of anything with most of the plastics and e waste other than shit it off to someone who pinky swears it's getting responsibly taken care of.

It's like you don't work in tech or something. Because nobody who does would have typed that out. And it's incredibly laughable that you think people are flocking to government work for a currently shut down and dysfunctional government.
Was this an attempt at comedy or satire that I missed?

Someone going to reddit for health advice is already too profoundly naive to adequately help.

Sounds like a vendor selection issue to me. While I agree that this is never likely to happen/find any mass adoption, your issue isn't likely to be a major reason.

and it's here today. No homelessness. No medical bankruptcy. No food insecurity. Affordable education. Decent places for everyone to live.

Don't replace a roku with an apple tv. Come on now. There are plenty of good options running AOSP (android open source project). Just never log into the play store and it's fine. Or if you must switch your launcher to something sane like projectivy rather than the google one that pushes ads at you.

I wasn't the one in need of a hand. I'm still not sure how you've gotten so lost.

Of course it's not always the cause. There are no simple solutions. The problem is when people involved with trying to "fix" the problem don't recognize that.

So you were able to read and respond to the first sentence in my reply, yet got lost in the weeds after that. Interesting.

What jurisdiction are these laws you're talking about? Because they are absolutely not universal. Especially a mandated COL increase. Just lol. That sounds like something that happens in some of the Scandi countries but it's not a fixed amount. And caps on rental increases are absolutely not a thing in most places.