Twitter has been losing money for years... Did they ever turn a profit? Certainly not under Musk.
Facebook lost money for many years too. As does TRUTH Social, although that might actually fit the description of propaganda.
That's just how tech start-ups work. Lose money but gain users, and eventually enshittify.
More than that. TikTok is where a lot of younger people share political philosophy. It's one of the few mainstream places where socialism is the dominant movement, which is why they want to destroy it.
Without TikTok fewer young people would be members of unions, fewer would be taking climate change so seriously, and more would be vulnerable to bad landlords who rely on ignorance of legal rights. While there is of course a lot of crap on there, it's not true to say that there is nothing of value.
Lately The Onion has called a lot of the reporting around the situation in Gaza days or weeks before it happened.
It's funny, but it's also really biting satire that we need to help us keep perspective here. Their stuff about all the ways the media will find to avoid saying Israel killed anyone is a good example. Some of the headlines, about bullets "finding" their way into children's heads, are truly beyond parody, but we will need satire to remind us just how insane they actually are.
Landlords choose to rent out property. Hate speech only applies where the thing being described is not a choice, such a race, gender, and bizarrely religion.
I had an Amstrad PC1512 that came with DOS 3.3, but also with DOSPLUS that offered CP/M compatibility. And the Gem windowing system version 2, which was the one that was hobbled by a patent dispute with Apple, which resulted in the desktop being only able to show two windows side-by-side (apps could do what they liked).
I think I spent 90% of my time in DOS, although Locomotive BASIC II in Gem was interesting.
More like profits were simply too low for next quarter's bonus and Seagate had to make a correction.
FTFY.
The public did not ask for BEVs, a few evangelists excepted and they already own at least one.
The public doesn't ask for anything. They inherently hate change. It took years for car makers to even get the concept of the automobile into the public's heads. It's called marketing.
The issue is the marketing right now favours traditional pollution, so you have two different interests at play.
FWIW I used to think the gasoline engine was the be all and end all. Then I tried an EV, then I bought an EV, and I will never buy a gasoline car again because I realised how ignorant I was.
Not saying Apple is on the right side of this, but we've only heard from Spotify
Well. Not really, we've not just heard from Spotify. We've heard from Spotify, from Epic, and from Apple itself about how it followed the EU ruling along with lots of legal opinions on the legality of the ruling.
Not all sides carry equal weight. At this point any normal person would be taking Spotify's point at face value given the recent past performance of Apple directly related to the EU's ruling.
Apple isn't stupid and if they are just doing this only because they want to defy EU regulations, that doesn't make sense.
But they literally are. The EU actively re-opened an investigation into Apple based on how Apple responded to the ruling from the EU, and they are very likely to end up dragged into court again at this point. We covered this in multiple
It's not a case of stupid, this is just a game to them, one that could be worth billions if they win.
This is like saying that the car that slows down after crossing the finishline first, is slowest.
Huh? In what capitalist world has any market ever had a finishing line? Are you a senior manager at Intel by any chance? Do you have a masters degree in resting on laurels?
I await their decision on EV producers and the huge quantity of dangerous particulates EV's spew into the atmosphere. Maybe they should have to capture all that stuff, or close down EV production.
That's more than enough Fox News for you for one day. Turn off the TV.
Every Snap I've seen is alongside the deb package, so the choice is there.
False. You may think you're getting a deb package but Ubuntu will actively circumvent your attempts. For example, try running "sudo snap remove firefox". Then run "sudo apt install firefox"
There are multiple packages in their official source list that operate this way. If you want to install firefox as a
Uh because they haven't magically forgotten what a foot or a pound or a gallon is?
If a metric raised person were to live in the US for a few years would they forget what a meter or a kg or a liter is?
No.
The trick is measuring everything in yards (1 yard is ~1 meter)
A meter is almost exactly the length of an M16A2 assault rifle.
Funny as it is, selling the metric system to americans as the M16 measurement system might actually work.
>"Yep, snap ends up being more of a problem than a solution."
Not just screw snap, but screw any FORCED use of containerized packages. Users should always have a choice for native packages- you know, the ones that take little disk space and are not complicated to manage.
You have a choice. Ubuntu hasn't uninstalled aptitutde and you can always add a custom repo to your source list. But fundamentally while I *hate* snap I really disagree with your point. The fundamental point of a distribution is that someone makes decisions for you. The issue here is that Ubuntu isn't the right choice for you, but we shouldn't be saying that any distro should be forced to follow the opinions of anyone other than their own maintainers, because in doing so it would lead to all distros being the same.
Happiness is twin floppies.
