This is worthless and does nothing about their duopoly as it only seems to be focused on payment methods. I don’t give a shit about the payment options for in app purchases if I’m still forced to use the app store or play store to download the app in the first place. This should have been about preventing Google from killing sideloading and forcing Apple to allow it in the first place

Fuck RAM manufacturers but are they actually price fixing though? It seems like AI companies just said “hey, we’ll give you a hundred million billion trillion gazillion schmillion dollars for all the RAM you will ever produce” and they said yes

Guess I’m just never buying a new PC at this point

But they have done an excellent job at carrying that mission forward

Where do you live? I’m in the east and we had basically no snow (none of it settled) and there were only about 2 weeks where I even had to scrape ice off my car

Ah I was getting it confused with HDCP

We don’t really get proper seasons anymore though. It’s just drizzle from November to March, actually nice weather in March and April, followed by searing heat from late May to early October and then back to drizzle again. Winter no longer exists and summer takes up half the year

Does the steam machine having HDMI CEC mean it will be able to stream HD video from streaming services etc?

Is there any evidence to suggest people are actually leaving apps because of AI?

100% agree, fpp just reduces politics to a 2 party race where neither party has to offer anything beyond just not being their opponent

I wouldn’t say he had very little influence, but I agree he’s not solely responsible. In the same way that David Cameron wasn’t solely responsible for Brexit, Boris Johnson wasn’t solely responsible for our shit covid response and Donald Trump isn’t solely responsible for everything bad happening in the US right now. They’re still figureheads who deserve all the hate they get.

And no I don’t think Burnham can do better. Nothing is going to improve so long as a Labour, Conservative or Reform government is in charge. And there will not be another viable left wing alternative until the Labour party fucks off and dies like the Conservatives did to pave the way for Reform.

AFAIK Starmer has done nothing to reduce Trans rights

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e2rj3zj02o

Would it make a difference for Starmer to merely say Israel is committing genocide?

Yes it would be a start

Invading peoples privacy was implemented by the Conservatives

They might have started it by passing the OSA but it was Labour who first started enforcing it, tried to backdoor iCloud, have decided we need to dox ourselves to use social media, have stated that Google and Apple have 3 months to install government spyware on everyone’s phone, and are probably going to ban VPNs soon. Yes I’m aware the Conservatives probably support all those policies as well but that doesn’t excuse Labour of any blame.

Starmer is mostly unpopular because everything has gotten worse after Brexit, and Starmer is unable to turn it around quickly

I don’t expect a quick turnaround, I’d settle for just a bit of deceleration at the moment

Do Google employees actually do anything other than sit around thinking of ways to make things worse? In the last few years we’ve had web environment integrity (thankfully that one seems to have been dropped), gutting the AOSP to the point where it’s practically unusable on its own, Android developer verification, play integrity, QR code captchas and now this

Contrary to what the article says, Windows search is complete shit even with Bing disabled

Imagine how much easier the population will be to control once they are no longer informed of the above issues. That’s the end goal

For things to stop getting worse

There are no privacy preserving age verification methods beyond “just trust us we pinky promise we won’t track you or keep your data”. And I certainly don’t trust the government that tried to backdoor iCloud and is currently trying to mandate government spyware to be installed on all devices

You need bootloader access which is arguably a higher permission than root

Tech products need to just fuck off and stay in their lane. Why are you, an app, deciding whether I can use an OS level feature or not? Why is my hardware deciding which OS I’m allowed to run?

Thanks that worked!