sorghum @ sorghum @sh.itjust.works

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Mozilla is an ad company now. It happened when they picked up anonym last year. It's why I use iron fox and librewolf that disable the telemetry by default among other things until ladybird gets closer to ready. Not to mention Mozilla forcing their ToS now to use the base browser on new installs and soon™ for existing users.

Mozilla is prepping for how to replace their income from the Google default search deal. I'm 99% sure it'll get blown up when the dust settles in the anti-trust case. It's why they ended a bunch of projects that won't make any money and branched into a bunch of weird (for them) markets like AI hoping to make money. The only proven to make money thing they are doing so far is ads.

Leaving one ad powered company for another isn't what I want to do. Fool me once...

Most of the time in meetings I think, "this should've been an email..."

https://consumerrights.wiki/

Is this race a majority or plurality wins?

Email encryption has been a thing since '91. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

So why not have their own F-Droid repository like FUTO does with their apps?

https://consumerrights.wiki/

Just on the surface, this is probably related to loosing the exclusive contract for Amazon deliveries.

Edit: yup, 2nd paragraph

Anytime pre-facebook allowing signups to anything but .edu email addresses

Eat shit Pirate Software

7 was the last good iteration of windows imho being that it wasn't loaded up with a bunch of telemetry being sent to Microsoft like 10 and 11 and didn't have the terrible UI stuff like 8 and 11.

2000 was marketed as business and server only, like NT before it. On the IT side of things, 2000 was rock solid.

They bought Motorola back in the day. I always assumed it was for the patent portfolio.

Clippy still wins though because you could have him duck off.

"Looks like you're writing a letter"

No I'm not, fuck off Clippy.

Turns out we just hadn't coined the term for computer intelligence being wrong as hallucinating yet.

I'm getting mission accomplished deja vu.

Am I the only one that reuses plastic bags as trash bags?

I'm saying that the pricing scheme Nintendo has for the S2 ecosystem is not conducive to pushing volume. This is evident to my other comment from talking to my local game store. Console demand is high, while games, accesories and controllers are not. If the average consumer's S2 library goes over 10 games average for the lifetime of the console, I'll be surprised unless pricing changes. The people who have purchased a S2 are holding back on other purchases that usually accompany that purchase. The people who haven't yet purchased and who will not purchase are likely aware of the prices as well. My rural local TV station ran 2 stories on price increases. Even if not all games are $80 each, the preconception is there for quite a few people that all S2 games are $80 each no matter if you've purchased a console or not.

Do you think parents or casuals know that, or do you think that they only know of the TV news reports of the console and game price increases? The biggest story revolving around the Switch 2 before launch was the price increases.

My local game store said demand for console is high; MKW bundle being the most popular. The demand for games, accessories and controllers is not high. I can't imagine that lack of demand to blamed on anything else other than pricing or uncertainty of the economy.