"So when Microsoft continually abused their monopolistic control of 90% of the PC market, they were let off the hook"

Apple has not actually been punished yet. They still have the opportunity to pay a bribe.

"just allow side loading like mac os and alot of issues go away."

"Not really. If you aren't on the App Store your sales will take a hit."

Uh, you think the sales of apps which most users cannot now load on their devices will go down?

"Android makers are whining when they already own the biggest slice of the pie?"

They do not in the US, which is what this story is about.

IDGAF, I scarcely use gimp any more due to the interface still being shit even after they allegedly improved it.

I'm a VZ prepaid customer in the US and I get unlimited text.

It's not less capable than any old M chip.

Got any actual points?

Hurr durr both sides durr hurr

Don't go back and forth with them. Just go to your credit card company. They need to learn.

Luckily little requires it so far. Unfortunately GNOME is going all in which means GTK is going to become a problem. So now if you want to avoid the fuckery you have to find Qt based replacements for that stuff. Sigh.

"the problem (with Android) is that browser based password managers barely work for anything outside of the browser due to how poorly Android is designed to allow this to function."

This is one of the few parts of Firefox on Android that has been reliable for me...

Yeah, I once looked into them and got sticker shock :P That said, the prices are coming down. The research seems to continue to show that they're safe for humans (although from the data I've seen I doubt they're safe for houseplants; their cuticle is much thinner than our skin). But for us... it can't penetrate dead skin, and while the outer layers of our eyes are alive, the cells there are constantly being shed and replaced.

"No way a million hunter and gatherers had any significant impact other than an occasional wildfire, which we still do by mistake today."

Dumb take which ignores known reality.

Natives in the US managed these lands sustainably for millennia using fire. They both expanded the plains to make room for more bison and maintained the health of forests by clearing brush... With fire.

I think Microsoft did the math and figured out that the money it costs to make a console has been increasing, not least because of security. And then it gets hacked anyway and doesn't achieve its goals as a result. Why bother? Needing exclusives to bring people to your console when you could do cross platform instead and not even need a console... Plus with the EU forcing platforms open it's only a matter of time before it happens to consoles. No console, no problem. Microsoft can simply lobby for the other platforms to be forced open.

Microsoft helped design the Dreamcast, which had only notional security and was destroyed in part by piracy. They then went on to design their own console with stronger security, although that was also completely defeated.

Yes, Sony's lies were relevant, but there were multiple factors at work. Sega failing at designing the Saturn ("pile of chips on a board") also set them up to fail completely without a win on Dreamcast.

"The will shut down the time honored policy of over-producing food and giving away the surplus through SNAP"

That's not really how SNAP works. That is how direct food aid works, like parts of USAID, or USDA food distribution which is infamous for government cheese.