He said, on slashdot, railing about railing.

If you were any less self aware you'd be a very small shell script

Bigger problem, copyright was never meant to last so long. As technology has advanced it becomes possible to make more media more quickly, so if anything copyright terms should have been shrunk, but they've been extended instead.

The single most important thing to fix about copyright is reducing the terms.

It was worth a go, but it was always a long shot. You could interpret the current rules as requiring some of this stuff, but it's a hard case to make. Either way, it was probably necessary to demonstrate that the current rules are inadequate.

Learn to read, troll.

Moto phones bought direct have no unremovable crapware.

The European Commission is the EU's civil service. Petitioning it was always a long shot, because for them to act you have to convince them that there is a good case within existing EU rules. They aren't there to make new rules, they are there to enforce the existing ones.

They have effectively said that existing consumer protection rules don't extend far enough to force publishers to make offline patches and server code available, but in their opinion do offer some of the things being asked for already and so the petitioners should contact their state consumer rights body.

To get a change in the rules, it needs to go through the European Parliament and the elected MEPs. That's how democracy works. Elected officials make the rules, civil servants enforce them.

On Windows you can also use a package manager like Winget or Chocolatey. To disable auto updates, go to Firefox's preferences and search for "update", it's right there as a toggle.

There is also Librewolf that is a Firefox fork, or really more of a version with the default settings changed for maximum privacy, as I don't think there is much change to the code itself.

FF on Android doesn't crash for me. It used to, but it's come a long way. The main issue at the moment is the crappy UI for tab handling.

Obviously they didn't make this phone, it's rebadged. There are lots of flip phones you can buy direct from China if you want that form factor. Software wise, Android lets you uninstall or disable even built in apps, or install your own OS.

Like their FPGA based C64, you are paying for convenience and having a common platform with support. It's like how there are cheaper SBCs than the Raspberry Pi, but it's very well supported and understood by the community.

If it's a good idea then it isn't. You really don't want to be instituting a change like this when you find out you need to.

On the other hand there's no clear path to usefulness for quantum computers whatsoever

These won't prove anything because they're ugly.

That's what we call a confounding factor

They don't know shit, some fraud convinced some policy maker that their snake oil was real

Not as much as it boggles the mind how people can still think Musk is a genius. Literally all of his wealth is based on their beliefs making them make stupid decisions which enrich him.

Tell me something everyone but maggots doesn't already know.

SpaceX chose to use LEO in order to address latency. The drag is just a bonus. But if they used a higher orbit, then the satellites would be further apart from one another. The risk of Kessler syndrome would be higher if a collision occurred, but there would also be less collision risk.