That just did remind me why the last HP computer I ever played with, was back in the Windows 98 era.

And it will probably stay that way forever now.

OpenAI seem to be the better choice and would have me consider Apple for one of my next devices !

Especially if OpenAI could pay and buy back Microsoft participation so that they don't have to sign up for shady deals, that would be the best outcome ever.

Playing games on Linux with Steam like POE2 and D4 @ 60 FPS, and loading time is faster than windows...

Truly the year of the Linux Desktop.

Good luck and Farewell in your "Undesired marketing, Forced Telemetry, Forced Microsoft Account Bidding, and others Cloud Bullshits that nobody want to be forced upon, in an attempt of getting the customer to finance MS infrastructure instead of it's own", it has been a nice ride, but we're done here.

Can they do the same thing with 3rd party Kernel Anti-Cheat System ?

Just asking for a friend :D

Just have Canada and USA vote, make and pass laws that make opt-out a default when it concern AI, and to not "force" users to install or use any AI components to use the base functionality of their device. If the users want to, then let be his/her/their choice, not the data-mining company's holding the user hostage to do whatever until they have their AI anal probe installed everywhere and activated.

Just like Microsoft had to re-think their "internet explorer" embedding in Windows, it is time to require and force the GAFAM to act responsibly.

This doesn't prevent them from gathering genuine pigs that want to have that AI everywhere they go, but it would protect the rest of us. It almost like if that was common sense !

Better to put these pants back on before unlocking that Windows PC in the morning or for a PH session... lmao !

Can it predict how pissed we are at getting force feed every possible bullshit AI out there with our privacy and copy rights getting eroded and robbed with no liability ?

When it is that we will "demand" that our lawmaker make being opt-out of every single AI crap a default, and that electronical devices such as mobile or computers have to stop sucking your privacy out by preventing and making illegal to pollute like a cancer, a device with stock application or services that you can't remove or disable, including un-wanted tracking and the like ?

Goddamn digital gangrene.

I never understood why doordash settle for sub-par interface and quality of application than Uber by example, which is clearly a leader in that industry.

Whether it is :
- sale tax registration numbers (both) that aren't collected or offered an interface to be input like Uber does.
- sale tax that aren't remitted to business owners.
- the unfriendly shopping experience where it hard at checkout to review items quickly during multi orders.
- the support by chat which is a real torture on a stupid cellphone small screen, and take forever to chat with and reply with your at the store, at the cashier line and have no time to play around (with uber, you get diamond support by phone, within 1 minutes, when needed).
- their own map system which bug all the time, not compatible with Android Auto, like Uber is, only work on the cellphone.
- No Online Web Dashboard where to easily download all earning statement, by week in PDF format, it almost as if they don't give a flying **** about driver's accounting being clean, but only their, and then make it a misery to do any sort of reconciliation or sums total/stats, even if that only for income and sale tax reporting.
- No easy direct deposit on demand, you have to go to a complicated bullshit that nobody want.

I am not saying Doordash ain't an option, but it is a lower quality, lower grade, nearly amateurish vs. their drivers, and for having being doing this for almost 2 full years I can say that Doordash didn't put much effort or energy into "fixing" these things or to get on-par with the rest of the industry, they shown little to no amelioration, while the rest thrives and are getting better and better.

We are at the point where we might have to pass law and regulations to force doordash (and the like), to minimally achieve the quality and operational functionally in terms of supporting their drivers like Uber.

PS: Don't get me wrong, Uber has their own problem, but Doordash is way worst at the moment, it not even close to be comparable.

Thank for your objective and constructive reply, and you're probably right on the autocrat part.

I am still wondering what if that someone is a non-profit fondation that has a claim: "WordPress Foundation is a non-profit organization that was set up to support the WordPress project.[149][150][151] The purpose of the organization is to guarantee open access to WordPress's software projects forever." but then start a world wide drama because they are not getting enough "PROFIT" from those who do succeed because they can't grow their own organisation like some sort of Google from the year 2000 in a sustainable grow manner instead of just keeping a float without necessary "growing" like a profit business ? We all get it, Wordpress has cost to develop and maintain, some C-LAMP stack, bandwidth, etc,

In all seriousness, I feel that socialism or autocrat, by definition apply to a government ? Does it would also apply to a individual or non-profit organisation such as Matt or Automattic who has power ? Shouldn't we have some sort of legal system in place that where whenever you put an project online under the "free open-source" branding/licensing, that project become a "collective property / goods", and that possible destitution options are possible to protect the very existence of the project if at a later time, the current CEO/manager turn rogue like Matt ?

My problem ISN'T that matt want more money... neither the need of, if there is really one.. (I doubt it). The problem is in the way he doing it ! That extorsion, discrimination (cherry picking instead of asking everyone a base price or whatever) and brute force in term of financing a project, and it is being hypocrite to the true nature of free open source. Why the need to "tax" those who use it, and not everyone in a equal manner, but targeting and discriminatively cherry picking who and who , when it was supposed to be a collective work of users that others can use and capitalize on without the fear of exactly this happening ?

If we can't get back the control on, and the guarantee that this will never happen again, we need someone to fork Word Press into something that will REALLY free to use, FOREVER, for everyone such as individual and businesses, SMALL or BIG, so that it is inviting for all the developers around the world to work on it's eco-system, themes and plugins and feel safe to do so.

What we don't need, is to be part of a cult like groupies to please the quirks of one crazy guy.

Imagine if by a pure fictive and unlikely example, the developers of CURL decided one day that *INSERT ONE RANDOM FORTUNE 500 COMPANY NAME HERE* doesn't finance them enough, so they will stop providing access to their code repository in retaliation, discriminatively. Aside from a law suit, what do you think it would happen here ? People would move to another free software or make their own ? fork ? Why aren't we having the same reaction with Word Press ? Because it is a "web software" ?

Thank for your time :)

Give the control of Wordpress to a real non-profit organisation that will not try to blackmail it's partners because they are too successful, while faking a hypocrite "open" eco-system that welcome everyone, unless of course, again you are too successful.

Just like a drug king pin, Matt is expecting business that use their eco-system and by the same time promote it, to pay him some sort of "success-tax"... if you're too big, at his convenance on his terms.

What in the actual extremist and left socialism fuck is going on here ? I seriously hope that WP Engine come up with their own OPEN PRESS base or something, and make it clear from the day of it creation, that they are not going to become total POS to their community by targeting and blackmailing partner and business that thrive and develop websites and experiences through their system.

You're already a tale of the past if your only answer to businesses challenges like this is to act like a childish losers who envy others instead of keeping the innovation up to par, and try to fuck up everyone by being a cry baby.

We have someone on the WP throne, and he has become a nuisance that need to be removed and changed, you may not agree, but that my opinion.

No it isn't.

Old TV that aren't smart, will not be able to be cast on, which is one thing that people like, to not have a smart TV, and be able to unplug the chromecast, and reduce attacks vectors when it required, not mentioning the shit amazon, roku or others chineses no name you were mentioning. We expect quality, and that what Chrome Cast bring us, not sure about your difficulty to use the device as a user, maybe you should had contacted Google Support for some help, but my grand parents were absolute non-technies, and they got to know to use it in 15 minutes, so maybe the problem was with you, and not with the dongle.

A smart TV, look like just another backdoor waiting to be sodomized by some russian nerds that gotta find some RCE, and even if you have a big red warning that say to not connect the TV directly to the internet, you'll have people to do it anyway. Same thing go for IoT, Scada and others shit.

So yea, it NOT the same thing, but it is the same result for people who don't care. Just don't put us all in the same basket. We are not the same.

I bet Google see more value into destroying that "possible" privacy, to get your TV hook 24/7 on the internet, rather than continuing to maximize their profit on a device that work and sell well. Once you won't be able to remove the Google subsystem on your TV, and everyone will be stuck with that BS, maybe they will start doing shitty analytics or push more targeted ads, they will have the capacity of doing it.

That the typical speech from people profiting from Player A, where they do not want others players to exist, not that I'm saying that is your case, but that is defeatism.

Most today platform where born from an event, like a break point in the need of internet, and I think that we reached this point, let Reddit be the very cause of it slow and agonizing downfall, over the next decade. Who care if it take 10 years from now, let's just get to it, so that one day we can be done.

We need proper freedom of speech, they found a way to offer us freedom of payment (crypto), it is time to start a real network of p2p/forum that everyone can use without discrimination. That is, at least my own opinion :)

I mean, this is only a forum system boosted with steroids and bullshit, so really, why is nobody had already created a clone using P2P or Blockchain to decentralize the control, and prevents discrimination like this, and most important, render the current Reddit useless and worthless ?

Like they need to be taken down, what they are doing is toxic and in my opinion, this sound like an incentive to the Microsoft and others, to finance and funds any non-profit that would do exactly that, and take Reddit off the internet.

Geez man, some people are slow to understand that privacy is NOT a priviledge but it is a RIGHT.

They need to make it an opt-in process, in every possible aspect.

What the next stupidity... ads at the maternity room or maybe tattoo your new born with an ads ? :

"Do you want to pay 10,000.00$ to have your new born taken care of, or would you like to pay 6,000.00$ and have him a face tattoo with a popular burger brand" .......

What the fuck is wrong with you people.....

Tell me you have no fucking clue of what you are talking about, without telling me you have no clue of what you are talking about.

Brave is :

- It's history show nothing wrong, they tried concept and did research and developpement just like any others business, and backtracked for all the changes that their users base didn't like.

- It is not private, it is Open source

- Built and based on Chromium

- Have a system to allow you to encourage your webmaster, your content creator by sending them tips, without getting sodomized by 24 ads per page.

- It's based in California, where worker laws are better than some other places.

- Everytime that users complained about something, it seem that they listened and backtracked stupid changes, unlike others browsers, who seem to just shrugs, and collaborate with these P.O.S like Netflix, who now will prevent you from having access to the standard monthly plan with no ads, discriminating poor people and forcing em to watch stupid ads they don't want to be imposed to watch, while rich people can afford the "proper" and "unparasited" version of their service, which will probably eventually get fisted too. It a business model that we allowed to thrive and accepted it like it was normal to say internet = ads/spam.... maybe that the real problem that need to be tackles on. Make laws that make this business model illegal or modify it to not allow business to treat us like ads-prostitutes, and make this kind of shithawk business model illegal, liable and force em to provide a normal business service where we pay for 100% of the service, and where no dark pattern to fuck you up overtime is put into places. Utopia maybe, but that still what has to be done, period.