These companies do not make profit in paper but have already made millions for others.

It’s all smoke and mirrors

… To the surprise of <checks notes> absolutely nobody

Actually I have a question and I admit knowing nothing of the legal framework here but…

Isn’t it absolutely ridiculous that a not-for-profit entity can exists solely for the purpose of developing a closed-source piece of software, demand to train it for free off copyrighted material, just to switch to a for-profit entity??

Sound 100% like tax avoidance. Like me registering a charity so I can throw a mega concert/party privately, secure preferencial treatment on supplies, get discounts on artists or even free performance and then switch to for profit as I start selling tickets

Indeed… I avoided it for years because I bought into the “it’s too heavy” narrative.

Then I saw a phoronics benchmark sayin it was actually faster and lighter than lxde if you turn effects off

I tried it then and was blown away, never looked back

And for those who have not tried it, the desktop is fully functional (not some half baked version. My son uses the desktop mode as a full school workstation for internet browsing, email, teams, Google docs, etc

I’m saving this when she inevitably cuts a deal to throw Trump under the bus for leniency

You dropped this -> /s

Now, Apple might argue that they’re being environmentally conscious by reducing packaging waste. That’s a fair point,

It isn’t… That’s like not flushing the toilet in a public bathroom to “save water”

It would be if everyone entitled to could easily vote

Well, that is like saying “in a perfect world…”. Today Americans do not live in a democracy where everyone entitled to could easily vote. And there are MANY reasons for that, not just one type of obstruction.

Why would Democrats not simply extend and expand the Voting Rights Act when they have a Congressional majority?

Because such majority is not guaranteed forever and whenever they come close to something like that, the Republicans threaten to implode the country.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/03/16/mcconnell-threatens-100-car-pile-up-in-senate-if-democrats-nuke-filibuster/

I had discarded the idea of buying anything Ford a long time ago… this just tells me I had been right all along and there is zero reason to reconsider

Side note: is it me or the worst enshitification news always seem to come from Ford (out of the American car manufacturers)?

Well, you have no reason to considering the innovations Apple provides are 3 years behind

But some definitely more than others

Feel it still… In my ass

By Portugal The Man

5 year minimum and the are forced to open source every abandoned project

Yes but memetics is a far cry from eugenics

So the Russians have discovered marketing…

Wise words my wife purposely does not accept

Somebody whose standards are much lower than mine, or alternatively, whose bravery is much more higher than mine to still hold a Twitter account, should Tweet this at Walters, Fox, Trump and whatever other high profile MAGA idiots around

Ah, because of the pro eugenics position in the movie?

uh? I always understood the justification of getting to Idiocracy was that only dumb people kept on having kids, the issue was not that they were genetically deficient, but that they couldn’t care less about education, ethics, societal improvement, etc

As with many (all?) speakers I have had, the pairing button is the same power button. I am supposed to start with the speaker off, press and hold until it turns on and then starts pairing.

The problem is that it usually connects (to the last phone it connected to, my wife’s in this scenario) before it even gets to the pairing stage. Even if I get to the pairing stage, it still prefers the previously connected phone :-(