Does the fact you can buy them from Best Buy and similar places affect your assessment of that?

On the hardware side of things, there are of course a lot more alternatives than just Samsung and Apple, so I don't think there is a problem there.

The App Store situation is different though because there's only two of them, and they are not direct competitors.

You did it again! You just invented something in your own brain! You're arguing against yourself - and losing.

The competition is Tesla / BYD / etc. Not other dealerships.

Do you realize that you are having an argument with intrusive voices in your own brain? Or not?

I notice this all the time with TDS sufferers: they invent something and rage against it.

Epstein ran a child rape ring against Americans for Israel. If the truth ewere known, the existence of Isreal would be threatened. Isreal requires an external sponsor to exist. That sponsor is the USA, and if it weren't us, it would be Russia.

Israel has a right to exist!

Don't drive them into the hands of Putin, antisemite.

Besides according to the Left, MAPs are just a sexual orientation like gay. Oppressing them is fascism.

OF "Models" are up a creek, when the basement dwellers can create a whole character to sell that will do whatever pays the most.

Which will drive down revenue for everyone except those skimming $ off the top, namely the OF owners.

The age of the internet where requests are honored has long been over. Tha fact that it has taken this long is an anomaly more than anything.

Websites are going the way of the Dodo due to AI. Once the data has been captured by AI, it is owned by AI.

Wow is strange.

I left after CAT as WOTLK was it's height before activation started ruining things after the Ulder patch in WOTLK by nerfing and adding raid finder. But Classic anneversary has its users including myself. I came back after 13 years.

Use the right tool for the job. Linus Torvalds himself said he liked Office and PowerPoint and it makes sense to use the OS which your software was designed for.

Personally I am considering buying a console for the first time ever. Nvidia greed and games running better on $499 PS5 suboptimal RDNA 2 with Unreal 5 than $4000 PCs mean there is some serious issues with Windows :-/.

BlackMyth Wukong beats my 5080 hands on a playstation. I got into so many flamewars over this from PCMR fanboys saying I am retarded and cite my hardware specs but it i just is not as smooth or optimal at 4k. Yes I know about upscaling and the PS5 is doing this but it has less issues.

But ... Linux has the same issues. A 3% 4% fps boost you will receive if you are lucky due to DirectX emulation and all the win32 bug to bug compatiblity added in god knows how many lawyers. Sorry wine is an emulator in the software sense of crappy code.

My point is Linux sucks for games. Steamdeck is it's own thing and my guess is consoles next generation will start winning again because they OS is tuned for the hardware and so are the APIs and frameworks.

It's great! I mean, the syntax is a little unusual in that it seems to start with the URL google.com and the protocol isn't http or https but "site:reddit.com"...other than that, the search is great!

I mean...I'm not American so have no view on your parties but otherwise, yes you got the idea. That's what a competition authority is meant to do. Of the ones you mention there's investigations into Google search, Microsoft was already convicted for Windows but wriggled out of it, Apple and Google are both being investigated for practices on iPhone/Android respectively, Apple Music/Spotify both complained about dominant abuse and I think there was some investigation (I know there were complaints, not keeping up to date with outcomes), Coke and Pepsi are enormous if you consider their sub-brands too and I completely agree with looking into the food market (throw in Unilever as well), Amazon's abuse of dominance has led to many fines, Walmart - again not American but what I read about them going in at a loss, waiting for things to close/go bankrupt and then raising prices all the while claiming subsidies for their workers - yep, agree they should be investigated. Steam absolutely should do - it has far too much dominance. Meta and Tiktok both were investigated...

Yes, you're pretty much spot on with what a competition authority should be doing.

There is a kids' app.

Trump took the EU to the woodshed. They had to drop all of their protectionist tariffs they have against AmeriKKKan goods(I thought protectionism was ad?) and in return America puts a 15% tariff on all of theirs. Moreover they had to write a check to us for hundreds of billions. The tariffs will bring in a shit-ton of money. We can use this to replace the income tax and repeal it entirely.

The usual TDS sufferers are screaming it's a tax on AmeriKKKans but it's not. When's the last time an American bought anything made in Europe? I mean one of us, not the CA/NY American passport holders who write the media articles describing what happened.

Hey, I've got an idea - make things in America and there are no tariffs. It's weird but worth a shot, it could work.

Don't be silly. It will be a well known medical expert; Robert F Kennedy Jr.

On the contrary, it will have a ton of good effects. All DoS attacks will stop. Fraud will crash and stay there. Email spammers will go away. When alt-right trolls get banned, they will STAY banned. Forever. Imagine an internet without them. A boot stomping on 4chan's face, forever.

I can assure you that if you harnessed a large number of peacocks, their potential as a sonic-based weapon is far higher than as a laser-based on.