They also knowingly provide services to a number of illegal businesses (ex: pirate sites, etc). When a company profits off theft, you know they're shit.

It's still greed, they'd rather companies plow their money into into stock buybacks instead of infrastructure. At least the data center projects created construction jobs...

Yeah, the MVNOs are where the customers are going. I don't know how long the networks will keep selling to their competitors at such good prices though. Somehow the MVNOs offer better prices and WAY better customer service.

This. Also, it's annoying because Google will use the scary warnings as a backdoor to disuade less technical users from using alternative app stores. Meanwhile everyone else gets trained to ignore warnings since they're being deployed unnecessarily.

Might also look into peertube

Trains are cool and all, but unless you're on the eastern seaboard, they have an on time departure rate of only 50% in most of US. They also travel significantly slower. Maybe trains could become popular again for 100 mile trips, but they're not going to replace planes for 1000 mile trips.

It's not even that good of a deal -- apparently there's also a 5% fee, so devs will still be paying 25% on some transactions instead of 30%. Most egregiously, Google is allowed to change service fees on third party payment methods. Seriously? Fuck off, Google. And none of this stops the developer signing requirements that will likely hamper ad block developers and anyone else Google doesn't want to give keys to.

I agree with you that it's patently illegal, but most likely ice will arrest decliners for 48 hours and not charge them with anything. It is a crime to not identify yourself to officers, but you're ONLY required to provide a name (or license if driving). They would not be able to get an obstruction charge to stick for facial scan. Just remember not to resist the arrest itself, and definitely don't fight back since then they can get you on resisting or battery leo. Just look down, close your eyes, anything you can do to interfere with the scan.

Yes; I don't want to hand my phone over to the government/airline employees.

So they're going to do the same to themselves, right? All that telemetry they do themselves (plus the rights to user data Mozilla forces users to fork over) should be just as visible.

I wouldn't be surprised if the customers didn't know there was a subscription. Mattress salesmen are not known for ethical sales tactics...

Definitely true for gnome (and their increasingly forced client side decorations). Fortunately there are other desktop environments and programs. Any program which forces those awful inconsistent title bars (which don't even show if the window is focused) ends up getting uninstalled. We solved these UI problems decades ago, gnome seems determined to cause them all over again.

B2B is notorious at this. Sign a lease for colocation or card processing or whatever and most of them want a multi-year commit. A commit that lets them cancel on you for free, but you cancelling costs insane fees or pay their total revenue. It's anticompetitive and basically ensures they can give subpar service if they want to.

Plausible, but should have limited the number of times it is turned on in that scenario.

This is probably the most out of touch comment I've ever seen. The average person lives paycheck to paycheck through no fault or shortsightedness of their own. They didn't have the same advantages as you. And if you were born in their shoes, you'd be just as stuck despite how clever you think you are.