When you are telling your customers "you agreed you wouldn't do that" the writing is on the wall, you are going away. Too bad it's going to take decades.

I'm trying to get people on to the bus. Running next to it for a block or two shouting about how complaining to you does nothing does nothing.

Crony capitalism is what you think is called corporatism.

Five eyes is specifically a spying program where allies spy on your citizens and then give you the data in order to get around citizen surveillance restrictions. You're going to have to know that in order to understand the argument.

Having decades of experience with "these things" is why I have strong opinions. I express them without guile because I'm not trying to trick anyone into anything.

If you want a crotch whacker 5000 you can just search for it, but if you want to look at all products of a certain class with certain characteristics, forget it. And many if not most people shop that way, because they do not have unlimited money and they are choosing from a pool of options in their budget.

There's no end to the scale up phase. They will always be training. They will always need more hardware in order to outcompete their rivals. So you've confirmed that they will never be profitable. Thanks.

Except still not. Major bankruptcies do not result in business resources disappearing into the aeather, they result in sell-offs of individual components of the business to companies who think are in the best position to profit from them and do so in a fair manner instead of consolidating the entire mass of two businesses into one superpower. That superpower has its own agenda resulting in a loss of significant content from consumers which would otherwise potentially be bought up by smaller or different media companies.

Even Paramount going bankrupt is better for consumers than this mega merger.

Errr I'm not talking about guns. I'm talking about the fact that there are an insane number of tiny rules that are extremely onerous. E.g. not just do pools need to be fenced, but in our house we were forced to move the fence 1m from the property because our balcony balustrading was horizontal. The law assumes that a child could climb over the balustrading fall 4m and then crawl his broken self into the pool and drown. In parts of Australia you can't buy alcohol after 10pm from a bottle shop. Australia is now the only country in the world where you need at a minimum a drivers license learners permit to ride an ebike, and while it sounds like that is to improve bicycle safety, that same state also passed a law saying a cyclist can legally turn right from the left lane of a roundabout, which seems to be a law that is uniquely written to kill as many cyclists as possible since it legalises cutting off a car.

Nany state shit.

There are many countries in the world that have strict gun control without being considered a nanny state by anyone other than hardline republicans.

Five Eyes is not home baked mass surveillance of citizens. It's a sharing program of specific surveillance between states. The UK does not give Australia or the USA access to it's 10s of thousands of cameras just because they are in Five Eyes. Australia is in Five Eyes and doesn't have a public mass surveillance program in the streets either, though does share data from specific ongoing investigations as part of it.

All Google phones and Samsung devices come with Google Authenticator on it. Virtually all work provided devices come with Microsoft Authenticator on them thanks to Microslop dependency. All iPhones are shipped with the Passwords app which does TOTP on Apple devices.

Also I can tell you've never actually used any of this. Literally 100% of services when you click a setup button will direct you to one of the three above right on the setup screen of the service itself. They are ubiquitous to the point where I question the sanity of anyone not using one of those three (and question the sanity of anyone using Microsoft's)

Yeah, at an event like an Air Show. Not just because Putin's Pussy Slave ordered it.

A monkey has more flight hours than the Russians.

I don't care. Ukraine out-flies Russia in anything. The entirety of the Russian military is a joke.

Congrats, Google AI overview is wrong. There are only like 10 countries that produce combat drones at all. And Iran isn't in the top half.

All true, but it's all doomed anyway. AI is going to do it in from both ends. Up front it's going to take the jobs, and in the back it's going to take away the jobs and therefore the disposable income from the people who would see the films. This is just hurrying things up a little bit. California Uber Alles! We're just as greedy here as people are anywhere else.

I used to be a window manager slut so I didn't get used to continuity of desktops until KDE got good. I still have to use Windows at work, but at home my laptop and desktop and minipc all run Devuan with KDE. It doesn't change much visually version to version any more.

This probably comes from the broad variety of different computers I used, but even on some of those there were other visual tweaks. On classic mac there was Copland. On Amiga there was Newlook. I tried them all habitually.

I think my Linux desktop preference would run - first Cinnamon (Mint FTW!), then MATE, then XFCE.

But I will admit I still sort of miss Enlightenment 16...