…but just like you chided the person you replied to, none of that is true or real. The restaurant that forces you to use their app doesn’t exist, and it’s not the only restaurant in town. None of that is even because of technology, it’s because of capitalism.

Yes, but Russia (or at least Putin) hasn’t.

lol fair enough, it’s Bioware, but the point still stands

But… you still don’t own it. You own an Ubi EA-controlled, revocable license to play the game.

an update which was specifically designed to break the mod.

[Citation Needed]

In Stallman’s particular case he even substantiated his view on pedophilia with very good arguments

No, he didn’t, because none exist. Don’t defend pedophiles.

What do you mean? He did step in, understood absolutely no context of the issue, told everyone to shut up, and then left without any real input. Fucking joke

If that’s the goal, you announce tariffs are coming in a few years so that people scale up local production to avoid the higher costs.

In this case, there was like 4 months notice where all of it was undefined, so of course nobody did anything and now we still don’t have local production. Now, prices will go up and local producers (if they even build up) will match the new prices instead of keeping them low.

Congrats, worst of both worlds! We still have no local production and prices have gone up! Yay!

I mean… have you not seen the photo ops and donations from him explicitly supporting nazis? 🤷‍♂️ not sure what to tell you, bud, but you can believe your eyes

What do you mean capitalism is doing capitalist things?!? That so unexpected and completely unheard of!

It’s almost as if our government is against regulations as a whole, and this administration is making it even worse!

Meta? Zuck has been extremely supportive of the nazis in power so far

And these social media outbursts aren’t accomplishing what they think they’re accomplishing.

I’m extremely technical, but not actively into Linux, though I’ve set up various distros dozens up times. These posts have driven me away from Linux in an extremely hard way - anyone with opinions like the Kernel team simply don’t deserve support, and Linus is clearly past his prime and making bad decisions. This has shown me that Linux is going to (likely already has) slowly stop improving due to its explicitly anti-progress leadership. Until a fork with good leaders manages to take a real market share, the OS will stagnate.

I’m sure this is a minority opinion, but to claim that the social media blitz hasn’t had its intended effect is objectively false. Fuck the kernel team.

I’m not worried about functionality, I’m worried about ads, AI, and privacy. Win11 is actively hostile on all three points

…huh? Bug bounty payouts are not even remotely rare in either the industry as a whole or Google specifically.

While under the Acti banner, it released the likes of Blur and James Bond 007: Blood Stone.

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of either of these games, and those were pretty prime years for gaming for me. Sounds more like Acti fucked the over an acquisition than anything, which wouldn’t be at all surprising

If it’s a negotiation, not a trade war, then how is this not just them giving a counter-offer?

Don’t support nazis or the people that support nazis.

Nothing alleged about it. The main app wraps your prompt in a China-friendly one - at this point, I think people have mined the prompt itself? Scummy, sure, but it’s also the same way that literally every other online AI service works.

Who’s anti-biology, again? 🙄

the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine

lolwut

Accepting that gender is a social construct has literally nothing to do with biology. I promise you that even the most diehard Leftists still understand what biological sex means.