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**tearing everything apart

But will the free speech absolutist chime in?

Hey cool, one more excuse to see a rich person get away with everything

Kind of funny that this kicks in the day before an inauguration.

This idea that Trump will end wars is laughable. He does whatever makes him money.

Kind of like wearing a red MAGA hat.

Damn, I’m in the wrong business. Been making really bad decisions for free

It’s already here

Just remember that it was ultimately the corpos who showed us that theft doesn’t matter anymore.

They agreed to terms when they operated under Creative Commons.

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question.

Laws mean nothing anymore. Therefore licenses mean nothing. Therefore ownership means nothing, and “theft” no longer exists.

It’s just a matter of time as so many corporate products and services enshittify. That, plus FOSS’ main issue is the average person not having any idea what it is or what it means.

While I hope I’m wrong, I agree this thing will go the way of most Kickstarters. It is interesting, but it will never have appeal outside of the hobby space, and the cash needed to get this thing off the ground will be immense.

Yes, but 1080p content looks like dogshit on a 1440p display

If that keyboard module isn’t extremely securely attached on there, I can 100% guarantee it is breaking in my pocket.

Would have much preferred if they were going to have just one base unit with keyboard. Other modules could fit over that.

I haven’t even gotten on the 4k bandwagon yet. I fully expected to by now, but then again, my eyes aren’t getting any better and 1080p content still looks… fine.

I suspect, at some level, that the confusing naming is kind of the point.

What’s the difference between Pro and Max? If the names were clearer, you probably wouldn’t check the website to clear up the confusion.

It nudges potential buyers into interaction with company marketing.

One more example of a private service being used as if it were a utility.

This one is especially egregious considering it’s an Amber Alert, but it isn’t necessarily unique. Despite the internet being designed as open, it has been taken over by private entities, and any popular service is ultimately controlled by such entities.

It’s a hard problem to solve. Look at federated platforms like Lemmy: they take a long time to populate, and their usefulness is partly a function of how successful that population is. By definition, a free, open platform will not have the advertising, reach, or “it factor” of a corporate service. When given the choice between an open platform and a corporate one, we see people choose the corporate one time and time again.

We have taken our open network and handed it, willingly, to private enterprise.

Between this and Tim Cook’s generous personal donation to the Trump inauguration, those folks seem strangely silent.

At this point, EU regulations are driving a lot of decisions big companies have to make.

The rich have purchased the US and thus it really isn’t regulating anything anymore.

These rich folks need to weaken the EU so that it cannot regulate as effectively. That is probably the frame that makes the most sense.