Far-right taking the lead fails to shock me anymore.

Swiss “neutrality” strikes again. Funny how it only ever happens to be to the benefit of whoever sends money their way.

Eh. Given how dead Thunderbird was, I feel it’s fair enough to call it’s recent massive renewal a launch.

And fkr what it’s worth, their recent ‘AI’ endeavours have been private offline language translation (i.e. no sending data to Google translation servers), and better screen reader functionality for blind people. Both good features.

Good thing they never said that.

These big companies don’t win because they’re the best, they win because they buy the marketshare bribe companies to only support their platforms.

You’re just describing free market capitalism.

The companies are free to do what they want without government telling them they can’t do XYZ.

In a free market, monopolies only stay monopolies if they continue to be better than the alternatives.

I disagree, because like you say, they can just use their position to harm competitors.

In a crony-capitalist market, monopolies continue if they can make enough barriers to prevent competition.

A crony-capitalist market is just the natural end result of free market capitalism.

Only by regulating the market and not having companies be free to do whatever they want can you have healthy competition and companies that benefit people.

They still break

On the other hand, ports on laptops fail too, so having several USB-C ports that can do basically everything is great for if one or two of them somehow break.

If the HDMI port on your laptop breaks, and the only other stuff you have is 3xUSB-A, ethernet, and an SD card slot, you’re shit out of luck if you want to output to a monitor or TV.

I can just plug my laptop into a monitor via USB-C, and with that one cable I have:

• the display/audio signal going to the monitor

• USB passthrough to the monitor that has my wireless KB+M dongle plugged into it

• 65W charging for my laptop

It’s great.

Nobody’s telling you to repurchase.

If the keyboard has the cable attached, you can attach a tiny (and extremely cheap) adapter on the end and just leave it there, and if it’s not attached, you can do that or just replace the cable.

Or you could just get one of the many laptops that still have a USB-A port.

Yes, the vast majority are closed loop systems and the water isn’t really used up, like a lot of these headlines imply.

That’s not to say the energy being used can’t be put to better uses, though.

Since you were unable to answer, I’ll just tell you: Google.

Good that they’re starting to pay attention to this.

The biggest ad giant in the world already controls my TV’s OS

And the raping.

What search engine does Chrome, by far and away the most used browser be it on phone or PC, use?

None of this is a reason to want a genocide on Ukraine lol. I don’t see the relevance.

Don’t all half-decent manufacturers do this?

No. That is phenomenally uncommon. To the point it’s almost unheard of.

Rule of Acquisition 35: “Peace is good for business.”

Elaborate.

We need to push for open source software, contribute existing FOSS projects, and focus on open standards and interoperability - that way companies know if they don’t play fair people/governments can move to other suppliers more easily.

Properly punishing US tech companies for their shenanigans would help too.