Microsoft still wants a Google-style advertising platform, still wants to spy on their users and pirate their data but a few actual bug-fixes will stop users complaining about the product and help them accept past and future enshitification.

TL;DR: Making bug-fixes also makes users ignore their enslavement.

I replied to the wrong post: This is meant to be beside your post, not under.

Nobody complained when the USA was buying Cuba. Losing that servitude has resulted in the USA having the longest tantrum in the history of the world,

Samsung has been competing with Google and Microsoft for 15 years and is going backwards: They abandoned Tizen, their superior fork of AOSP and dumbed-down to the stock Android OS.

Their forced install of competing products, wastes data and device resources. Their only saving grace is their products are dumbed-down, not enshittified but so dumb they are not suitable for daily use.

Random glitches can be a virus, memory leak or hardware malfunction. A hardware malfunction is triggered by repeatable events, a virus tends to reduce to a specific pattern and anything else is bad code, accidental or deliberate.

You're moving your right hand a significant distance.

The QWERTY keyboard is left-handed, the mouse is right-handed: So, WASD is a natural setup and the maximum number of keys can be tapped without moving the wrist.

The problem then, is the instant-change keys, such as weapon selection: For that, I use a pointing device (mouse, joystick) with more buttons. Since many games don't require diagonal changes to in-game position, a mouse is the common choice.

The real problem is, Polymarket won't punish their customers for manipulating the outcome of a bet. It's an scam enabling corporate 'investors' to take money from individual investors: It's how corporations use the stock market and other trading platforms.

If Google can't have monopoly control of the shop-front, their new policy will allow monopoly control of all software.

If Android OS becomes a walled-garden, Google looses their 2nd-biggest advantage. For me, the loss of side-loading means Apple iOS becomes a better product, because it protects privacy.

It's sounds like a memory leak, probably not from the f-droid applet. If f-droid is conflicting with another applet, one can visit the f-droid web-site and download the applets individually from their web-page: It's much more work but eliminates one source of trouble.

You probably don't want to go through the process of uninstalling an applet then seeing if f-droid works, for every applet you have.

Players agreed to work for bits of electricity that their employer can destroy at any time: Fucking brilliant, making people pay their employer up-front, then work for free.

Every online corporation is now wondering how to gamify their data collection.

Everyone needs water, heat/energy, healthcare, communication, transportation, shelter and education. What do people do with AI: What problem is solved by building more AI? Recent analysis suggests the cost in time, both computing and human attention, is not cost-effective.

Like education and energy (electricity), the government providing a uniform service, reduces the burden on businesses. But the random quality and massive cost of current sentence generators does not make this a uniform experience for any person or entity.

This is a 'solution' looking for a problem and some people are demanding the taxpayer pay the bill.

IIRC, a few months ago, all these social services (except Telegram) admitted to using end-to-server encryption (transport-level) only, for our safety, of course.

The N. Dakota D.A. refused to prosecute because the police case (a computer-generated guess) wasn't convincing. The article reveals the real horror: How the DoJ washed their hands of the abuse they committed, literally dumping her on the street of a different state. It reveals how little responsibility, police have towards the victims (Ie. Finding the fake Id. and the stolen property.) and the systemic cruelty in the US judicial system.

It also reveals the stupidity of automatically escalating a crime to a federal 'level' because the alleged criminal crossed a state border.

It's interesting that no-one is talking about prosecuting the police for very real suffering: One hopes she hires a skilled lawyer to seek damages.

I understand Microsoft seeing the big picture, them losing THEIR government contracts but it's also their leverage. If they truly stood with Anthropic, they would put it in their products: What's the US government going to do, use open-source? The 'too big to fail', 'too big to jail' memes allows them to hold the government hostage, without bribing politicians first.

So, I guess he's responsible for the Adobe model of stealing (as Adobe would say) all artistic works, then using AI to sell it back to artists.