Who stands to gain from this outcome?
Always follow the money!

Another issue where there are no white knights only power vs. greed. I wish there was a good idea somewhere in here, but I'm not seeing one. I believe the local governments are squeezing on their end, but a federal answer will absolutely be overreaching. Heck the rules are so antiquated AT&T is still seen as a POTS co. and Comcast is still viewed as a cable provider.

I've had numerous friends and family tell me I need to order a fire stick from sketchy dude because he hacks it and makes all of the pay stuff free. Of course sketchy dude requires a subscription to get his updates when Amazon updates their code. I love the hypocrisy!

2 things...If you are proposing an alternative
1. Spell it correctly GnuCash
2. Provide a URL to the alternative. GnuCash

I saw

and I nearly lost it! It's funny because I still use Linux Mint but haven't used my Mint account in over a decade.

Net neutrality is government non-involvement. These @ssholes desire government sanctioned involvement.

Newsom signs law making mutilating children as young as 12 without their parent's knowledge and immediately signs law that makes his previous law illegal!

OS/2
eComStation
Arca OS

Office will always work with Windows 10 (and Linux, and Mac OS) as long as they offer the E1 tier. All you need is a compatible browser, and while Microsoft would have you believe Office works best on Edge the truth is it works just fine on Chrome and Firefox.

I'm curious why you would choose Open-SUSE over Mint-Debian? I haven't looked at Open-SUSE but have tried SUSE distros in the past.

What a load of malarkey!

Companies have been building battery storage on the grid for at least 7 years using used Tesla batteries. They are between 70-80% capacity. I was at my energy company employer's announcement 7 years ago.

When Valve launched Steam it offered smaller developers a place to showcase their titles to a larger audience while simultaneously providing anti-piracy DRM that smaller developers with few coding resources could not afford to develop themselves. There were many competitors at the time (2003) and several were quite popular. I believe the reason Steam won out, and this is entirely my opinion, was that their DRM was invisible. I was an early Steam adopter (I also used many of the popular competitors) and had no idea Steam had DRM. Almost every program with DRM I have interfaced with has had DRM that is in your face in some way. A lot of DRM systems must be connected to the mothership to work. If you have flaky internet or the mothership is unavailable...too bad!

EA got cocky and launched Origin and pulled most of their content from Steam. They had no idea how hard maintaining that system would be and just how much people actually like using Steam. Long story short they eventually modified Origin to link to Steam so they could list their titles on Steam again. The "If it aint broke, don't fix it" adage kinda fits here.

There are much more important things I could be worrying about. I suspect it will eventually come down to whether Ubisoft chooses to do the right thing or a class action lawsuit to get them to unlock their DRM.

Ubisoft is hemorrhaging cash and has no viable future. Of course they will screw their existing customers to stay afloat as long as they can.