The argument can also be flipped by saying that companies won’t make a better game on launch because customers are happy paying for a subpar experience even after knowing the game is not optimised. It doesn’t matter to them when a few customers leave as long as they are making a profit and the stock prices remain up. And pre-booking sales already help them with that.

I think Bradley means that Apple should also be forced to open up their OS to other manufacturers?

Agree with “just cost of doing business” argument for Google. But market cap and fine amount ratio are totally unrelated. A company’s stock price can be highly inflated in trillions in market cap and yet can have negligible incoming cash like maybe a few million dollars. So a fine of billion would definitely hurt them a lot.

*Proceeds to wait and pirate it anyway

ok then i go to frontends. if that also shuts down, then bye bye reddit.

Winzip, i think, is owned by Corel I think. Almost as evil as Adobe. In India over here a lot of small businesses use it and it is unaffordable for them to get such creative suites. Corel constantly sends notices to the ones using cracked copies and force them to buy it for 3 years to avoid legal damages.

Tell them to fuck their gods. ATP There should be forced climate action whether other people like it or not.

They are shit

Yep an easy agree. Popular browsers like Zen, Helium and (god forbid) Brave should be directly in the official repos. So should be Jellyfin. It just makes sense given that debian repos have far more packages.

You just proved my point. If a painter’s meticulous brushstrokes are so unique that they literally drive recurring revenue and make guests keep choosing that hotel, then that painter isn’t just a labourer anymore but a core value creator.

If their specific, artistic choices are generating perpetual, ongoing profit for the owner every year, then logically, they deserve a piece of that ongoing profit.

Similarly if the producer gets to make passive, recurring income off the crew’s recorded artistry forever, the crew deserves a piece of that recurring success. To argue otherwise is to say, Thank you for creating the magic that makes me rich. now go home while I collect the cheques.

That is a false equivalence.

A movie is not a hotel and the film crew is not following a fixed blueprint.

If a construction crew lays bricks perfectly, the hotel’s value stays the same (unless the architect actually makes a design that helps the property’s value to go up in which case they demand profit sharing and equity). But a film crew is creating a unique project. If the camera operator captures a breathtaking shot, the value of the movie skyrockets. if they mess up, it’s worthless. The crew’s creative labor is what actually generates the outsized profit.

Plus, we already give profit sharing to directors and writers because we acknowledge their labor creates the value. Arguing that the rest of the crew (who sacrifice their health and sleep to execute that vision) don’t deserve a slice isn’t logical.

I think it is for the better. Digital gift cards are more convenient. Plus less paper and plastic use is a net positive for the environment as most people throw physical gift cards (that are redeemed digitally) in the trash anyways. Although it is good to acknowledge that people who will lose out on the attachment in physical sense, like wrapping it up for a friend and seeing the excitement on their faces or a kid or a teenager going getting a physical one with their pocket money cash. But this is mostly in the west though as in the East the concept of physical gift cards is long gone now and even kids spend money digitally through parental access payment methods.

Actually, if an architect and a construction team invented a revolutionary, hyper efficient, beautiful new way to build hotels that caused revenues to skyrocket gazillion %, they would demand royalties or equity. Furthermore, we already have a model for this: profit sharing, bonuses exist for above the line talent because we acknowledge their labour creates the outsized value. There’s no logical reason that shouldn’t extend to the rest of the crew who sacrifice their time and health to make it happen.

I hate how people frame as “Hey look the producers took the risk, so they should get the returns.” They just took a financial risk. It’s literally the easiest risk to take. Ask gamblers. While the crew takes all kinds of risk with the gear, dialogue choices, costume choices, set choices, sacrificing sleep and food for a day here and there, using the hours that they could have spent gambling in the stock market to come with a proper story, planning, practicing and executing it. So yeah these guys definitely deserve a bonus from the success as THEY MADE THE SUCCESS HAPPEN.

Absolutely but it is not easy. It needs to have several layers of abstraction by hiding what packages are being updated and auto approving themselves without prompting for password. There should be an automatic rollback mechanism in place in case an update goes bad. Some programs will need to auto-update themselves as users would expect like google chrome, firefox — which I don’t think we currently have other than steam. Otherwise if a person skips an update, they will leave their system vulnerable to the security bugs in browsers.

Only tech savvy people will actually install an OS. Unless you put a “Install OS” button on the keyboard most people will never switch. So they will probably never use Linux because the idea of switching defaults is scary because it is not “officially supported” by the manufacturer. Using the terminal is not a big deal. Most people can learn and adapt very easily, it’s not rocket science. The official defaults mindset is a barrier.

If we want Linux to grow, we need it to be installed by default on major hardware.

deserve an OS that is easier to use

Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu. They exist and have existed for a long time. They simply are not the default OS on any major piece of hardware.

I have turned it off 99% of the times these days. My bt headphones also has a wired output and I use it most of the times.

That is not the barrier. Most people stick to defaults and don’t know how to install an OS. When any person switches, they will try to learn an adapt. If it is a shitty experience, they will switch back to defaults. Updating your system through command line is not a shitty experience.

Bruh I have people in my life who say “just keep it on, what’s the harm?” when it takes 10s extra to connect to their headphones or cars.

Free on Linux. But you should just use Firefox or its forks.