That bullshit remark of many companies which says that they need to hire people in India / China etc. because they've run out of talent pool in their home countries is really starting to aggravate me. If those imbeciles stopped paying for services from zero-productivity companies like McKinsey, PWC, E&Y and the the like, they would have a lot more money to invest for hiring competent employees. They are actually paying 3k/hour for an idiot from McKinsey (yes that's only for ONE), who just creates PowerPoints for their CxOs showing them how much money they could save by investing in workplaces like China/Pakistan/India and the like.

No, but you can purchase it on steam and launch it from there... Except if the developer chooses otherwise, since it's his choice.

Absolutely right. I was one of the first who used google when it was still an university project but for the last couple of months I use exclusively DDG and I'm very happy with its results. This wokeness of google has really gotten out of hands (among other things). One of many example which makes it quite obvious:
Just type "men can" and watch the autocomplete magic happen... For those who are to lazy to try out out themselves, the results are:
Man can have periods
Man can lactate
Men can get pregnant
...
Similarly, type "women can" and the results are now:
Women can vote
Women can do anything
Women can do it
...

Is there really someone in the whole world who typed "Man can have periods" in their search query??? Considering that Google is being accused of misogynistic and racist behavior by many of their own employees, they shouldn't praise high morale standards and clean their own house first.

Small correction. Not the ones with the valve. They protect only the wearer while allowing him to breathe more easily. Any breath he exhales isn't filtered at all.

So basically NVIDIA is circumventing Apples' payment mechanism by using this method. Good luck with that. Expect a patch from Apple in the coming weeks which will basically disable this method or make it completely unusable. Apple will blackhole NVIDIAs' whole domain if they have to...
I don't think NVIDIA is so stupid to think that Apple won't respond in such a manner. One reason that I can think of is that maybe they're baiting them to do something which can be used in an ongoing trial process? The mentioning of Fortnite doesn't seem circumstantial.

...if it's free to play!

Among other things like waking up my PC's remotely through the internet and setting up port forwarding to connect to them whenever needed, the most neat think I'm using it though is to use my landline from anywhere in the world through my mobile phone by setting up an asterisk server on my RPI. This way I'm able to use my hundreds of minutes of my landline dialplan effectively through my mobile phone by also being reachable on my fixed line from anywhere in the world. All of this with ~5$ electricity costs annually and some empty space in a shelf.

What you are saying might be valid, if Huawei wouldn't be locking down their phones and being so secretive about their software. Since they lockdown their bootloaders on all their devices, this proves to me personally that something fishy is going on with them.
Even if you personally do not care about these things, an unlocked bootloader would allow users to to deep dive into their system and investigate what type of data are being accessed by Huawei's system processes and where this data is being send.
I'm not a big fan of Trump but in the case of Huawei he was right. A pity only that he didn't include Nokia also, which also is a Chinese company that lockdowns bootloaders on all their phones.

that this whole jack removal thing is somehow industry forced. Maybe a requirement for 1+ to sell their device (for the first time) via a major US carrier? I can understand the reasons to remove the SD card slot and for non-removable batteries, even though I don't agree, but regarding the headphone jack there is literally no reason at all (more space, outdated tech is just... laughable) except one... DRM.
Also, 1+ plus knows the majority of their customers are power users which won't accept this change lightly. They also ridiculed themselves (just like Google did) because they followed this trend only a few months after mocking their competitors for doing so. So either Pei was somehow forced to it make this change or he is a complete idiot. I don't think the latter is true.
Doesn't excuse his action though...

Actually something entirely else will happen. Rather than being opted-out, they want Google to include their links and demand from them a share of the revenue (11%). Not a joke (see Axel Springer lawsuit against Google in Germany).

The Linux Kernel (or parts of it) Android is a different OS then what we call Linux or GNU/Linux which we use for our normal distributions.
Strictly speaking yes you are correct, but then Linux shouldn't be mentioned in any statistic. So 3% for Linux in the Desktop should actually be x% Ubuntu Linux, y% Debian GNU/Linux, ... x100 distributions. So this is the reason when people say Linux, they actually mean operating systems which are based on the Linux kernel, even if this isn't completely correct. Why shouldn't the same apply to android which is basically a JAVA VM build over a Linux kernel?

This number seemed to be pulled out of you butt...
As of now, no actual "formal" numbers for server market share exist, but any person in the tech industry should more or less give you this raw estimate.

YEA a 64bit OS with security and processing powerer unheard of a couple decades ago
I should've used the term "smart fridges" and put an "even" in front of it, to be more precise.

You wrote (or were implying) that nerds don't have much influence over common users and you used the desktops as an example. In my reply I wanted to counter that statement by saying that nerds have still much influence and they use it where it applies. Anyway, almost all users (even power users) can get around by using Windows instead of Linux in the Desktop. This is the main reason Linux failed on the Desktop, even though it wasn't meant for this to begin with. Now returning to smartphones (which is this topic's subject btw.), almost all power users will run into problems sooner or later which can only be overcome by unlocking their bootloader and applying various workarounds. So this is the reason nerds are recommending Linux only on very special cases (few for Desktops, many for other cases), but would never recommend locked phones over unlocked ones. This is also the reason most OEMs still allow unlocking their bootloader, even though they know very few people actually use it.

Unfortunately, Sony shot themselves in the foot when they started wiping the camera DRM keys after unlocking their device. And so did Samsung when they implemented KNOX on all their devices. Both those manufacturers basically tell their customers that they are allowed to unlock their phones by permanently handicapping them.

Huh? Comparing apples with oranges it seems. So I guess Apple is also a failed company according to you. As for Linux:

Linux is currently installed in over 3 billion smartphones
Over 80% of the servers worldwide are build on Linux
Linux is installed in hundreds of millions home appliances like SmartTVs, refrigerators etc.

Almost every person on earth is using Linux, even if most of them haven't realized it. So these "nerds" opinions still have power where is matters.

I would expect such a ruling from a third world country, not from the US. Though Viner is an despicable idiot and made a false 911 call, I'm sure there's a law which punishes this kind of behavior. But in the end this is the only thing he did. Made a false 911 call and gave false information. THAT'S IT... Whatever happened next is the responsibility of all the parties involved in the raid ie. the police squads and the ... victims. This clearly looks like someone is trying to push the blame. The real problem is "How on hell did one person die from an idiots claims in an emergency call?"