Some early adopters of "Here's a complaint one, pretty please use it" included small operations like PGP. Others were small companies then, later to become large.

Not too long after, there was the whole flap around DeCSS for DVDs. The medium itself is nearly dead now, but it was individual efforts that rendered region coding largely a joke. The Chinese vendors whose DVD players didn't give a damn about region codes came second.

I can buy alcohol because I don't live in Saudi Arabia. I can have an OS that doesn't know or care how old I am because I don't live in California. That law literally doesn't apply to me. If I make a distro where I am, why should I bother with age verification at all? It's none of my business if a friend of a friend or a complete stranger decides to download it and install it on a machine in California. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

You can get fired at the drop of a hat for no reason at all. Bosses blow their top over being 1 minute late. Fill out these forms you just filled out last week and again online before you can see the doctor. IRS knows exactly what you made and what you paid in witholding, and what you owe but YOU need to compute it, better not be wrong! Don't be late! Rent and mortgage take up an ever increasing portion of your monthly income (if any). 23 calls a day, mostly scams. You have health insurance even though it was damned expensive, but somehow you still owe a heap of money you don't have after a single visit to the ER.

Meanwhile, you're getting badgered about your "credit score". If you let it get bad everything gets more expensive and it gets harder to get a job (for some reason).

Yeah, you're less likely to actually die today than years ago, but your place in life is far more precarious than it was even 20 years ago. More things demand your attention.

They aren't trying to require ID. They are trying to require either a passport or birth certificate. A lot of people don't have a passport, and a large percentage of the population does not have a birth certificate readily available. It takes money and time to get a replacement copy, and even if everyone requests one in time local agencies will be flooded such that the delay will cause them to be unable to vote. It is already well known that the way things have been done for many decades works just fine, and all claims of election fraud have been thoroughly debunked. Also, a poll tax is illegal, and it cost money to get any of the three (ID, Passport, Birth Certificate.) It's ironic that you are complaining about election fraud while supporting installing the means for Trump to commit it.

Phones can have multiple users also, either by allowing them to be physically shared or by creating multiple user accounts.

That isn’t analysis, it’s a right wing rant built on stereotypes, paranoia, and zero evidence. Typially, all you right wing fanatics blame entire groups instead of engaging with reality, you ignore how companies actually operate and you replace facts with insults. Phrases like “go woke go broke” might feel satisfying, but they don’t explain anything and they're wrong, meaningless and stupid. If you want to criticize Disney, there are real issues to point to. This just advertises your bias and demonstrates that you're the fascist.

Indeed, your entire staterment is exactly what real fascist comments looks like, an evil person pretending that they and thier greed and hatred are not the problem. Shame on you for selling us out. Meanwhile the corruption and the classism at Disney continues as the rich people who own us continue to cheat, lie and steal and people like you are letting it happen.

We would have to re-arrange society to ease many of the stressors in life. I predict we'll be needing those drugs for a while.

Based on the cost of products from China vs the price of products made in China but sold by non-Chinese companies, I'd say the price well more than covers the cost of everything for practically any product where they also choose to display ads.

They just want more, more, always more.

they already own the media, just like they own our governments

It's also possible that Dolby is twisting logic into a pretzel in order to make this claim. It wouldn't be the first far-fetched theory of infringement to go through court.

changes from a corrupt legal system, don't hold you breath, these evil people own the legal industry, justice for sale is no justice at all, this is what corruption and classism looks like, welcome to economic slavery

just remember we we're sold down the river by those in power who aren't ethical, this isn't a democracy,, there is no rule of law and no free market, no free enterprise, all lies meant to keep us enslaved while our entitled upper class enjoys a free ride at our expense

The first thing I do on installing Linux is nuke NetworkManager and it's ilk.

Damn, Windows has really improved in the last 25 years. Wouldn't know since my last Windows was Win2k and my computers only run macOS or Linux and have crashed less that 10 times combined in the last 20 years or so. A well, whatever. Good for people still using Windows, I guess.

There's no reason a smart TV MUST have an account with the manufacturer or seller unless they want to enshittify it.

You may want to have accounts with various streaming services or perhaps you just want it to stream video you have on a NAS.

furthermore, the most common derangement these days is self-importance brought on by entitlement and fueled by self-indulgence, these upper class people have clearly spoiled themselves rotten and they live in fantasy world surrounded by syphocants

sadly they are drunk with power, in the drivers seat and the road ahead is narrow and dangerous and billions of lives are in the balance