What?

SteamOS plays the actual games. It's not streaming from another source.

I've been following the Danish surveillance escalation for 25 years (I live there). It's been consistently aggressive across changing governments.

The problem lies with the real, entrenched power in the Ministry of Justice. It makes no difference whatsoever which party you vote for.

As somebody who was in tech during the 90s and 00s, I can say with high certainty that Bill Gates is a psychopath. All the white- and green-washing of his image in the time since doesn't change that.

Whatever he's doing, he's doing for his own gain.

Apple has the biggest money bags of all of them though. So from the state's perspective, this is the smart move.

What kind of fuckery are these arguments? Tesla has a monopoly on the software and hardware in their products. Can anybody else than Tesla make a Tesla? WE MUST REGULATE THEM UNTIL WE CONTROL THEIR BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY'RE CLEARLY A MONOPOLY BY THE WAY THINGS WORK IN MY HEAD.

The DMA doesn't claim Apple has a monopoly; they define Apple as a gatekeeper. Try reading and understanding the thing you're blindly defending here. You might find that it's not as wonderful and consumer-friendly as you imagine.

That's a fine rant, but you're being disingenuous imho. These examples, and the Lightning case in particular, are so profoundly different to DMA as to be incomparable.

Nobody's avoiding buying an iPhone because Apple disagrees with DMA. Plenty of people disagree with swaths of the DMA, European consumers included (I'm one of them).

And fwiw, Lightning was kind great for its time, and was a main source of the tech in USB-C. Apple was a main driver in the development of USB-C.

The irony here of course is that the Air is the most durable iPhone ever made; far from flimsy.

The Swedish MEPs got 100s of emails per day about it, but maintained their pro-dystopian stance on the matter.

Democracy in action.

Judging by their response, I feel quite convinced that these doctors and experts are exactly the people ArchieBunker isn't going to have a rational discussion with.

I've never understood the motivation in censoring racism online.

Posting slurs on Twitter is one of the least harmful things these morons could be spending their time doing.

Not on 'it':

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/its-or-its/

I'm running Mountain Lion without issue or hacks on an early 2008 Macbook Pro. That's 5 years service and counting.

Some machines do get left behind, but this doesn't seem to me like planned obsolescence, it's hardware that just can't do the job for whatever reason.

But hey! It's cool to tell everybody that Apple is evil. Rock on!

Actually, while there may be some things making it technically illegal, I think Apple have accepted Hackintosh.

With the release of Mountail Lion, it's no longer called Mac OS X, but OS X. This shows me that they are separating the Mac brand from the OS, which now (unofficially) runs on a lot of other hardware than Apple's Macintosh machines.

The only time they seem to take action is when people start trying to sell hardware commercially as OS X compatible. Or indeed sell anything which purports to get you a Mac on the cheap. They have taken *no* direct measures in their software to hinder installation on other hardware after switching to Intel. There's their TPM, and the SMC had to be faked / emulated, but those barriers were long since broken. Occasionally a release comes which breaks things momentarily, but these always seem to be honest changes, rather than (very) half-hearted attempts to thwart hobbyists.

It's a good attitude to the issue, imho.

Which forum? Did he identify himself, and was this confirmed?

Drug people tend not to reveal who they are on the internet, nor what activities they are engaging in. So this seems odd.

I've been using Linux for the past 10 years or so. I choose Ubuntu as my Linux of choice.

How am I a moron for choosing an environment where most things work, out of the box, without me having to spend days fucking about? You can be sure that whatever I'm trying to actually achieve with the machine will take plenty time, so not having to configure everything about the OS is a distinct advantage.

My time is valuable to me, and Ubuntu saves me time. I fail to see how this is moronic.