As I sad, they all have their own implementation of "Walled garden".

The Google way is not necessarily the documents standards, but they closed Android sources, prevent you from using Play Store with a rooted phone (though not impossible, they make it harder), have a documented monopoly on online advertisement... and much more shit. We're very, very far from their "Don't be evil" moto.

What do you expect from a company that tries to lock you in its ecosystem?

Same as Apple, Google, Amazon and other large corporations, each in their own way, with anticompetitive practices.

It's called vendor lock-in, and if they could, they would lock you even more in their walled garden.

Repeat after me: Never. Ever.

A very practical scapegoat, to get the attention off Trump's own insider trading...

From a "notorious hacker group"... Sorry, I can't raise my eyebrow this high.

You'd pay me to wear "smart glasses" and I wouldn't want them.

Now get off my lawn!

As with anything "creme de la creme", it was far more expensive for the exact same shit ;-)

Well I think so, but man, it was almost 32 years ago, so I can't remember exactly which one...

I remember having a 3DFX Guillemot graphics card. It was like the "creme de la creme" back in the days, end of the 90's if I am not mistaken.

It was like having a Rolls Royce.

69 nowadays is too young to die. RIP.

"Regime"? You speak like the USA is in a dict........

Nevermind.

I did the switch 9 years ago. Never looked back.

I also ditched any MShit for a self-hosted Nextcloud. I am on par with features, and for the price of an MS subscription, I got a fixed IP for hosting all my data at home, accessible from anywhere.

Not a setup for John Doe, but great for the nerd I am.

Art of the deal.

Until they find another way - or loophole - to planned obsolescence.

That's their business model. Having fools line-up in front of their stores when new models launch.

Here is the all new and shiny iScrew!

The iScrew driver is available in 5 different formats starting at a mere 249.99$ each and has an AWESOME minimalist design. Depending on the device on which you want to replace the battery, you may need the whole kit, available for only 999.99$

And don't forget the new iBattery! Available for less than a cup of (Starbucks) coffee per day!

Plenty of features, easy to install and use, easy on resources, open source, and independent from Microslop.

What more can you ask for?

I used to have all my repos on Github. Now they're all in my Gitea.