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To be fair, the hardware is excellent. Overpriced as hell, especially considering that you can't upgrade it yourself and the prices Apple charges for RAM and storage are ridiculous, but you can't really argue with the quality. The locked-down, inflexible software and basically forcing you buy into the whole ecosystem if you want your devices to work together is the issue.
Legality and morality aren't necessarily the same.
They probably prefer consumers running pirated Windows over consumers running Linux. As long as most people are more familiar/comfortable with using Windows than Linux, the more likely companies are to not even look at alternatives.
Oh, for sure. I just think it's funny.
Oh, cool. That one flew completely under my radar. I'll have to check it out when I have time.
Are there mobile apps yet? Because if no that's one huge advantage Lemmy still has over Kbin/Mbin, and it's why I switched to Lemmy when Artemis started having issues (it went down completely since) instead of going back to Kbin.
The hardware team made a device that just couldn't be turned into a good product no matter what the software team did. None of those AI-in-a-box devices are good products because they simply don't have a reason to exist. Everything they can do, phones can do. If you have a phone, you don't need one of those AI boxes, however if you buy one of those AI assistant things, you'll still need a phone (which, again, can completely replace the AI box with no loss in functionality).
So the protestors are tortured until they confess to bogus terrorism charges? Locked up under horrible conditions in labour camps in Alaska for years and decades? Do you risk imprisonment for merely saying to someone you thought you could trust (like, say, your children) that they should be allowed to protest? Because then, yeah, that kind of brutal oppression.
Of course there were some things generally done better in the USSR, thing is, you don't need a fucking socialist dictatorship for universal healthcare, social security or public education. Many, many capitalist countries offer all of them.
Norway is not and never was socialist.
Edit: on reflection we are squabbling over definitions here. Seems rather pointless, and I didn't mean to be as ... aggressive as I probably came across. I've just seen more than my share of people on Lemmy genuinely advocating for USSR style systems, so I probably overreacted a bit.
A truly shocking number of people don't use any form of adblock. I doubt that driving off the adblock users will have a significant effect on viewership (and even if it does, why would Google care, it's not like we're making them money).