Is Meta even active in China or are they blocked by the CCP? If so you can remove 1.4 billion people from the list of potential users, meaning an even crazier market saturation

Win 10 being murdered is the important distinction. It’s not the first time Microslop released a shitty and unpopular Windows version, but previously you always had the option to stay on an older still supported version.

That’s true for previous chancellors but not for Merz. Yet another thing where he sets a negative example. His wive was a somewhat vocal in his election campaign and the district court led by her attracted negative attention when it bullied a political opponent of Merz by illegally issuing a search warrant (German source). She did of course dispute being personally involved, but it smells fishy anyways.

With people like her I wonder if she actually genuinely believes in her values or just determined them to be most profitable to her. And I’d argue that the latter would be even more evil

Trump said those prices are not as high as what was expected from the war

So if we believe him, he expected it to be even worse and still went ahead?

The entire NASA budget is less than 3% of the US military budget. NASA or moon missions are really not the reason the US can’t afford health care

I know that the year of the Linux desktop is a bit of a meme but that’s why I was referencing it. That said, the year of the Linux desktop has long come for me personally and only my desktop PC still has a Windows partition but I don’t know when I last booted into it. I won’t immediately ditch my Android phone, but I’m excited to test the viability of a Linux phone for me personally

I have the new Jolla Phone preordered and I’m excited to see how it plays out. Maybe 2026 is the year of the Linux Phone

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

This quote has been attributed to many different people and it apllies here. You don’t need a manager that always agrees with AI

New business venture: sell computers that totally aren’t routers, pinky promise, but just randomly happen to run OpenWrt perfectly and have all the needed hardware.

Reminds me of Futurama:

Some soldier: Why is this godforsaken planet worth dying for?

Zapp Brannigan: Don’t ask me, you’re the one who’s going to be dying.

The real issue is that they pulled Windows 10. When Vista was shit, you could use XP until 7 was released, when 8 was shit, you could use 7 until 10 was released. Now 11 is the only supported version and you have no choice if you’re for some reason stuck with Windows.

Windows 11 was released 4 years ago and you still can’t move the task bar to a different edge of the screen. If Microsoft can’t implement simple feature of a core part of Windows in 4 years they most certainly can’t replace their entire C/C++ codebase in 5 years

It was probably corona counter-measures that stopped measles from spreading from 2020 onward, but now that Trump is back in office, he picks up right were he left

Possibly, but there was a major cloudflare outage today that probably caused it.

Is this even legal in the EU? The majority of phones in the EU are Android phones so this effectively gives Google control over what apps can be installed to the majority of phones. I thought the Digital Markets Act was designed to prevent exactly this.

From what data I can pull they have roughly 125M subscribers, so it’s about 1.4%. This still doesn’t sound a lot, but it’s effect is exaggerated because of their business model: the majority of their cost is for producing shows and movies, i.e. costs that don’t scale with the subscriber count. The cost of serving each subscriber is almost negligible. They need some number of subscribers to break even and every subscriber beyond that is their profit margin. Losing a bunch of subscribers directly cuts into their profit.

Because they are part of the European Broadcast Union (EBU), just like other non-European countries including Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Georgia. That said, just like Russia, their membership should be suspended.

I’m completely fine with non-European countries participating. Australia (the one with the kangaroos) isn’t even an EBU member, but has been participating in the Eurovision for the last ten years and I think it’s great to see the world grow closer like that.

From that chart Qobuz seems to be the all round best deal. Is there any catch?

Is there anything more American than aliens claiming to be the true Americans?