The amount of pick ups that get stuck on beaches will never not be funny.

Like, yah, cool, you got it lifted, you put big off road tires on it. It’s still got shit ground pressure, it’s too fucking heavy for that kind of terrain, especially with such comparatively small wheels. There are pickups that can be modified to handle beaches and sand, but they’re the smaller ones that aren’t starting with a massive handicap from weight.

There is a reason dune buggies are small and light, there is a reason tanks have tracks.

But doing it with a cyber truck is an extra level of stupid.

They do have their own App Store, it’s just only got like… 14 apps in it. Mostly just the stuff they’ve made them selves that they’re super confident in the security of, as well as a couple of other app stores like Accrescent

To start allowing submissions of any third party app to it would ether require them to do a ton of vetting to ensure it meets their standards, or for them to drop the standards for security and privacy for it. If you want more than that handful of defaults, Accrescent and the google play mirror are there ready to be installed

so, Linux does work, a lot of stuff works. There is nothing fundamentally different about phones other than them basically all running on ARM instead of x86, which is more common for PCs. More development of stuff for X86 Linux than ARM Linux, although less of a difference than there use to be.

Really the issue is proprietary stuff built on top of android and IOS. Stuff that a lot of useful apps rely on for security and functionality. For instance banking apps are super locked down for obvious reasons, but the standards that have been adopted by the industry for mobile banking are all entangled with proprietary close source stuff.

And then nothing happens because they can’t substantiate the claims, nor do they have enough loyal goons to enforce their outrage.

A lot of these red redistricting maps are weakening their safe seats. I’m sure they’ve got some very skilled statisticians using very good software, but the datasets they’re using are from 2 years ago when they were in opposition, during a very anti establishment time. The cultural moment is still very anti establishment, but now they’re the establishment.

So by diluting their safe seats, they’re likely creating a bunch of seats liable to be much more competitive in the next few elections. If they spend resources and effort to sure up those seats, they’ll probably be able to win most of them, but that’s resources and effort they could have been spending in other races. These states were already gerrymandered favorably for them, have been for decades, the democratic states doing gerrymander in response have a much easier time creating new blue districts that will actually be safe, since they’re working with a blank gerrymander slate.

To be clearly, only about a 1/3rd of us voted for him. And realistically, of the registered voters, only a small percentage can actually influence the outcome by way of being in “swing states”.

But yah, I’m pretty fucking pissed at pensilvanians who wrote in Mickey Mouse because they thought it was funny.

I’m personally not that upset about gas prices going up as I can not afford a car anyways.

87 to 121 cents per liter roughly, prices varied widely around the country, but roughly that as an average. 3$ per gallon to 4.50$ per gallon.

“No! We swear we can make money! Seee! Phone? Phone make money! We make phone! Please give us more money to throw in to the money shredder.”

Lmao, from low down on the page

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So yah, ai generated slop articles, not even edited or optimized for SEO with, just straight up writing the articles.

You can still use a computer in jail, especially a nice jail.

Exactly, this is the problem. This is anticompetitive behavior.

It’s not anti competitive if it is litterlay also what all the competitors are doing, and have been doing since the very dawn of digital markets for software. It also dubious if they could legally even set up such interoperability even if they wanted to, as it could potentially violate parts of the DMCA.

They’re not doing anything to destroy their competitors, they’re not a monopolist, and the repeated failures of court cases against them all over the world shows that. There are a few on going cases against them, but, there are far far more cases that have already finished that failed to show any monopoly seeking behavior.

Public companies do not actually have a legal obligation to maximize shareholder value. That is a myth based on a misreading of the Dodge V Ford decisions. That specific reading of the precedent of that decisions has never actually been used in a court case to charge a CEO.

The difference was that people pretended like Google ever had an option to “not be evil”. At the end of the day, they were a publicly traded company, and thus, line must go up, or else the collective hive mind of the public market would vote the leadership out and replace them.

Steam is private, thus, the current leaderships can ignore the demands of the public market hive mind. Private companies can be evil, but it depends on who owns them. They’re not guaranteed.

A monopoly is when all competitors have been destroyed, not when competitors aren’t particularly competitive. At least, under the letter of US law.

If they start being stupid, they’re suddenly on par with the competitors already being stupid. Suddenly they have viable competitors.

They do have competitors, they competitors just aren’t very popular. There is the colloquial definition of monopoly, and a different legal bar for being declared a monopolist under US law.

To be declared a monopolist requires that a company already has destroyed or is actively seeking to destroy competitors through anti competitive behavior. Even if people mix terms, the general idea is that they’re not doing anything unreasonable and anti-competitive to gain their position in the market. They have competitors, they’re just not popular, and steam has not done anything to make them unpopular.

The real danger is that if steam decided to suddenly start being externally anti consumer, like many of it’s competitors already are, it would be difficult for people to migrate away due to a lack of interoperability between services. Users can’t transfer licenses to play games between services, nor can they easily interact with social features on other platforms. But that’s not really steam’s fault, that’s how all the competitors (for the most part) work as well.

I mean, like, if they impeach him successfully, they’d just get Vance as president, that would be arguably worse. Like, trump is an incompetent idiot, and he’s filled his administration with incompetent sycophants. Vance probably would clean house of the most incompetent people and pursue much of the same agenda, so, same ghoulish techno facism, but implemented faster and with less opportunities to block it in the courts due to sloppy implementation.

Never interrupt the enemy when they’re making a mistake and all that.

I mean, public companies have to chase the quarter, private companies don’t have to. Private is a curse and a blessing. It can be better because the ownership might be reasonable, or it could be worse because the owners are insane.

Public is predictable, for good and for ill. Private is a a wild card.

The only safe bet is worker owned.

I always say, people starting out should just go to mint. It’s the lowest friction option, and will work fine for just about every use case. Like, there is a whole world of cool stuff to try out, but that’s for after someone has an easy, stable and reliable experience. After they realized that Linux can work for just about anything, that’s the time to start messing about and trying out the more specific distros.

Is this what he faked an assassination attempt to distract the news cycle from?