5 stars are often just as silly. 5-star at a restaurant be like “We all had food poisoning the next day but the service was great! Food out fast.”

As always in life it’s a little column a and b. I think what they’re trying to get at is that this doesn’t save any economic productivity in the long run and runs counter to the traditional “principles” of capitalism.

What a crazy few months to be alive and into music.

Tends to go: Open-source projec: “We do not break production.” Closed source for profit: “If we make this change that will break some of production, will it still be profitable?”

It’s a lot easier of a choice now that it’s endemic and there are drugs, but long term complications are still common with Covid so it’s more of a gamble than the vaccine. You’re also not reading it correctly but I don’t really care to explain risk factors to you.

There’s enough time passed to show that if you catch the virus you have a significantly increased risk of all long term complications vs the vaccine. Again just look up the statistics and research. The primary field I’m aware of is heart complications where those who have taken the vaccine show double digit reductions in long term heart complications vs those who have not. Arstechnica.com has a good write up on it that I have linked below, but basically every legitimate peer reviewed study is fairly aligned on the health outcomes of the vaccine being positive stacked against the virus in wide populations. You, as an individual, do not get to choose if you live in a population so your personal assessed risk factor does not really matter because it’s entirely subjective and based on things you cannot measure.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/covid-vaccines-still-protect-against-heart-problems-large-study-finds/

The issue is you’re comparing a small manageable risk to a significant unmanageable one. The data is in. The time has passed. You had the potential to be somewhat correct once, but with millions of doses of the vaccine now distributed we now have overwhelming evidence that it leads to more positive health outcomes vs contracting the virus. A short search of academic studies will provide you significant data in this regard should you wish you validate.

Occasionally they provide value ad services through these paths as well. The “kill switch” functionality of the proton vpn virtual driver comes to mind.

So many things shouldn’t have copyright protection in the first place. Code is up there on the list imo. Patents as well for that measure. You likely benefit from millions of cases of both infringement and design “theft” but it legitimately just stiffles industry, keeps the lawyers rich, and usually leaves the indie industry competitive only by the graces of a monopolistic capitalist body hoping to hold up straw man examples.

32gb ram module. $800. 🙃

Gonna need an oled screen before I pull the trigger, but boy do I wanna…

Probably just want to be able to control the user experience honestly. It’s sort of what your average “consumer” expects. Maybe they could fork Heroic, but I don’t really think that benefits either party long term, but I’m not super intimate on the long term life cycles of open source projects, perhaps there would be enough overlap still to offer good opportunities for up streaming despite the difference in design direction.

E.E.E. Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. When you’re the highest contributor, you get to exert certain control that would otherwise be impossible. They have a vested interest in this.

Ooooooo

This honestly made me laugh. Thanks.

Great! Migrated the rest of my devices over the past few months. Everything is now Linux aha, although I did end up switching to Cachyos but have since settled down with it (still Debian on my prod servers though). 0 regrets. Truly the year of the linux desktop is upon us.

About to be 6.0000001% when my Kubuntu download finishes. I’m finally taking the dive boys, linux on main here we go.