Now take Epic games and fuck right off. You're not doing this for us....everything you do has fucked the consumers. You're doing it for yourself youselfish asshat.

Here's the reality:

if you're a nobody this already happens. The license only gives you a legal course to persue action, it's not automatic. If you can't afford the lawyers....then you effectively don't have the license protections.

99% of open-source licenses do not have the financial backing to enforce it.

If a corporation wanted to take the code...guess what; it can. It already does. Only in high-profile cases does the EFF step in. For 99.9% cases....you don't have the money and your code will be stolen.

And if Linux is using AI...then you can't make an exception for it.

What's going on is not great...but the reaction is just going to push people away from open source. We'll see more open projects taken...refactored...and made private. Licenses only work if you can enforce them. If someone steals my open-source code...the reality is I do not have the money nor am I important enough to get protection.

I can't remember if they're actually using an in-house call center...but a lot of time that happens because it's not an in-house call center. It's some third-party that provides CSR services. So the call center has specific rules that run on top of however the client dictates the account is supposed to behave. Part of the general rules is to verify the call on your screen matches the one on the phone because...guess what....sometimes that shit gets it wrong. Sometimes the call info/entry screen goes to the wrong place and you'll have Bob's call get paired up with Dan's information. So the center wants to ensure the agent is on the right call.

It's done for two reasons; the primary reason is CYA. Like whenever you hear "your call may be monitored for quality assurance"; oh...it absolutely is. Someone is going to go back and listen to that call. It's not for the client/company you're calling and they're answering for. It's for the center itself. In addition to someone grading the agent for if they did everything on the call they're supposed to; if something should happen and a client complains, they have the full chain of who did what with that call. Sometimes it's less CYA and more actually caring about providing quality service.

A lot of annoyances with dealing with CSRs at call centers regarding why they ask so much information makes sense when you realize the mess taking these calls actually is. Like the first time I got to see how call flows are setup and how call scripts are programmed....it all made so much sense.

Of course...one of the biggest rules from clients is "never reveal you're a third party service answering for us". Compounding the issue...oh both sides. The person on the phone assumes you work directly at the company and are just refusing to help them when, in reality...all they can literally do is take a message and push it in to salesforce or something. They can't pull accounts or anything like that.

I'm willing to bet this guy streamed 800GB of 4K content and his 8.4GB is just TCP overhead.

Okay...so it uploaded 8.4GB of data in one week...for 3 to 4 hours per day.

Which is a totally invalid metric to go by. If you literally looked and said "oh...8 gigs....10 days....3 to 4 hours a day...this is bad" and stopped there; then you did absolutely nothing of value.

There is more information needed...specifically; what's the download amount? Yes. It matters. Protocols have overhead. Downloading isn't free. When we take away all the junk the software is doing just to keep the stream going...there is going to be some overhead in just the transmission of the data. You're seeing a very raw number that's going to be "inaccurate" unless you know exactly what it's counting. That's why you also need to talk about how much data you downloaded during that period. Going on your estimate of 28 hours (4 hours x 7 days); a conservative estimate says you will consume around 63gigs assuming 1080p streaming at 5mbps. 8.4GB for 63GB would be a cause for concern...I'll agree there. But what if you're streaming 4K? Well...28 hours @ 40mbps is 504GB. At that amount, 8.4gb of upload is normal; that's less than 3% of the total download and actually kind of small for ovehead estimations.

But instead you just want to make a claim...then back out with some excuse when asked to show data. I'm going to say you've proven nothing.

Show some numbers or gtfo.

Then you deserve whatever happens to you.

Don't patronize that filth.

Well...let's look at the only two ARM platforms that aren't embedded:

Apple
Microsoft

And there's your answer. To the rest of the world....ARM = embedded, so they treat it as such. The Apple M silicon and whatever MS is doing are non-embedded ARM chips that can actually do things; but they're Apple and Microsoft...so there's not going to be much Linux overlap.

What?

That's not how it works. Just because you have stock doesn't mean shit if no one buys it...or you price it so no one can buy it.

The problem isn't they were driven by market forces...the problem is they were a small player; and 4 years ago everyone decided they weren't selling to the small players.

I get you hate Pine....but ending production is not the result of anything but saying "we cannot get parts". They're not protesting component costs...they just can't buy them. No one will sell them...at any cost. It doesn't matter if they keep throwing money at it...they're being told no.

The only joke is how you think any of this works because....you clearly don't.

has $0 real world value.

Our clients are losing customers because they're ditching humans for AI. There's still plenty of people who are anxious to eliminate as many human positions as possible.

Big Tech can say whatever it wants...when every other business is sitting there saying "we're going to go to the company with AI that's 80% cheaper"....well...big tech doesn't control those jobs. Those jobs are getting wiped out.

So...in the land of normal cable television; you can't do this. Cable providers are legally required to offer local channels; and you're legally required to pay the rebroadcast fee.

Streaming providers....last I knew....were supposed to adhere to this too; broadcasters threw a fit at the possibility of people buying packages without locals and cutting them off of all that money.

At the very least...the reorganization might close whatever loophole they're using and you'll have to start paying for locals. This is a shitty system that won't improve for you. Congress approved it and they continue to do nothing about it.

It's memory safe!

The fuel efficiency standards basically demanded large vehicles. You couldn't make something the size of a small Ranger unless it got 70mpg.

The law basically forced them to make larger vehicles.

The consumer market doesn't make them any money. Like...when asked about the consumer markets....not a single company cared. We're too small a market. WD basically said consumers were less than 5% of their income and they dropped us like a bad habit. Memory makers stopped making to the consumer marekt.

Think about that....consumers...are not the primary market. We don't matter anymore.

This is not about a bubble...it's about taking a market away from us. This will never end. They don't want us to have personal computing devices. This is the end-game.