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.

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 use the NeXTStep-style launcher in KDE, which is ironically objectively superior to Apple's dock, and is actually what they had before they fucked it up to make eye candy for idiots

If you use complex applications you already have most of a DE installed on your system. If you don't use a file manager but do use a session manager then you've still got most of a DE running in your session. All you're accomplishing is using a less featured launcher, which is fine but really not a big difference.

You can run Cinnamon if you miss GNOME 2, but when I tried it, it just felt old :)

Yes, every news outlet. All of them. Some were nicer about it than others but all were asking questions about his ability. IDGAF about entertainment programs like The View though, if you have to bring that up to try to support the point then you've already failed. It's not a news program.

That's profoundly selfish. Shock amazement

Nothing in Israel is viable without American money, so no.

Man fuck history, this is now! I don't give two fucks what Russian peasants did in 1432, I care about what is possible today. And today something better is possible if we stop letting the billionaires convince us all that our neighbor who's just as fucked as we are is stealing all the money!