That ship sailed years ago. We are all criminals now.

If the pirates have taught me anything, it’s that there’s a way around everything, and someone somewhere is smart enough and bored enough to find it.

If they structure their supplier contracts anything like the auto industry does, that would only be because they are on the back end of the product’s production lifecycle.

When the bread starts to get expensive, you can’t have the masses protesting against the circus. Doesn’t surprise me in the least that they’d come down hard on the anti-tech crowd.

Less of an issue with Valve. They don’t have as much of a need for a hardware loss leader since they earn from Steam regardless of which hardware it’s running on.

You know, I think I just came up with my first $1,000,000 product; drywall with embedded copper mesh.

Gonna be a whole lot of people born on Jan 1, 1970

You still be identifiable as the walking cylinder. What we need is a ministry of silly walks.

There may have also been some big money lobbyists from companies like Google, Amazon, etc, that pointed out how much money it would have cost their poor shareholders to implement.

The fun part of open source is that someone smarter than me will inevitably just update the existing spoofing tools to include whatever checks those platforms are using.

It also starts to depend on how you define what a given service actually is. Plex has shifted from being a self hosted media server to essentially a streaming service that you can hook your own library to.

To be fair, there are a lot of unhinged people who resort to actual death threats for shit that in no way deserves that level of intensity. It’s probably one of the big reasons why everyone who’s actually smart enough to run a city/state/country is also smart enough not to.

It was the third party apps for me. I never browser Reddit on their site itself.

Depends on usage. I’m starting to see Linux on the types of industrial equipment that used to run the embedded flavours of Windows, and those are usually Ubuntu. When dealing with the developers of miscellaneous projects, Fedora seems to come up quite often, and everything production is Debian.

Dude, it’s 2026. We don’t sell shovels, we sell shovel subscriptions.

Which problems are you referring to? None of the physical issues, nor the human behaviour issues are relevant here.

I’m guessing that they wouldn’t actually store that amount of data. Probably processing it on the fly and discarding a majority of it.

With modern high capacity drives, it’s possible to have that storage in a single rack. If would probably be about $500,000 worth of drives though.

Development cost is still a thing with software.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across a situation where the environmentalist and the phone seller were the same person.