I run Debian 13 and Chromium has been available as a package for a long time.

So I'm not sure why you would want to wait for Google to release Chrome on ARM, since it's essentially Chromium with Google's nastyware added to it. Just use Chromium.

There was a little of that, but I think they really wanted to be part of the industry and figured that their effectively unlimited bank account would make that relatively easy. Almost out of the gate, GFiber was complaining about the amounts of red tape that incumbents were imposing, ranging from high fees to use existing poles to to arguments over easements to lawsuits over trivial and even frivolous claims. They lobbied city, county, state, and federal governments to do everything they could to block Google, threatening to withdraw from markets even before Google started building out, potentially leaving people without any high-speed internet for years as a way to threaten government officials who wanted to keep their jobs with losing them due to angry constituents.

Now I definitely know I don't want a Galaxy phone as my next phone.

The point of these attacks is to drag the Gulf States into Trump's elective war that those states asked him to not start. In the long term this will push the Gulf States away from the USA and into China's sphere of influence. This does not really benefit Iran, but the Iranian government knows that theyâ(TM)re fucked, so they have to do something to punish the USA on their way out.

Big Tech will buy the latest and greatest in power generation / suppliers, and the general population will be left with the legacy power infrastructure that will keep on aging and becoming more and more obsolete, because domestic power isn't where the big money is.

I've seen cameras installed in gyms to monitor the exercise floor. There's no reason they wouldn't be, and multiple reasons to have them, including showing customers misusing equipment, harassing other customers, or starting fights. They're not installed in the locker rooms, but the main floor is perfectly fine.

They're also perfectly within their rights to ban customer recording devices, including smart glasses.

So will the make an unrated soft core porn movie like the shows? Or will they tone it down to get an R?

The OpenOffice UI is stuck in the paradigms of the 1990s when Star Division created it. With lots of new icons piled on. Like Photoshop, itâ(TM)s a tool for people who have been working with it for a long time. But there are millions of users who werenâ(TM)t even born in the times when those UI paradigms were current. To those people LibreOffice is a mess of ideas kludged together and it doesnâ(TM)t make sense. I donâ(TM)t think that makes LibreOffice worse than MS Office, because MS Office suffers from the same thing and the ribbon UI is just a way to keep that shit under control. But if LibreOffice wants to be relevant in the 2020s and beyond they should be looking at the stripped down UIs of software like Pages, Numbers, and Glyphs instead of living in the dotcom era.

You can shove your dystopian future where the sun don't shine, is what I think.

Big Tech is rolling out high-speed mobile data so the dead internet can flow easier.

And most of their content will still suck and everybody will be watching YouTube shows and movies produced by tiny studios with tiny budgets doing their effects with AI. No amount of mergers will make big content viable.

It's Department of Defense, you fucking fascist collaborator.

Grumman and McDonnell Douglas were saved from bankruptcy by mergers. It is very likely that other companies like Martin Marietta would have gone bankrupt post-Cold War save for mergers. Five major defense contractors were left out of around 50 previous major contractors. OpenAI may not go bankrupt, but that doesn't mean its independent future is secure.

OpenAI is already facing serious headwinds. Its 2025 revenue was only $13 billion, but it expects 2030 revenue to be around $280 billion. Two years ago, it expected to invest $1.3 trillion in data centers, hardware, and model training, but a few weeks ago, that was cut to $600 million. It's losing money on most of its subscriptions, even the $200 Pro level. Its early technology edge is fading, with Anthropic and Google competing for the top spot. It had to push out ChatGPT 5.2 earlier than planned, and that wasn't much of an upgrade over 5.1. They're still by far the most popular AI brand, but that doesn't mean permanent success.

The CCP cares too much about appearances to risk the embarrassment of a manned rocket to the moon blowing up. Itâ(TM)s more likely that the American mission will go wrong due to complexities of working with too many contractors and too many stipulations that Congress writes into funding the program.

Amazon is spending billions of dollars a year to develop its own AI products. And developing chips that allow other companies to host their AI projects on AWS. Why are they investing in a company that competes with them and their customers?