Penny wise pound foolish. The only way not to go through the paper is to go through the rolls.

Because robots are better than humans.

This is the tech bro answer, but at some point there is no point to enjoy humans to do tasks anymore.

Until then automation will just increase profits roughly within legal limits.

I’m not arguing what the market ought to be like. I just don’t agree with your definitions.

No, it’s not. A monopoly is a market situation in which a single entity controls the supply of a product or service. A government can be a monopolist. For instance in many countries the government owns the railway company.

You’re describing regulation. That’s a whole different topic.

A monopoly is not when a technology is more popular than another technology.

Ninja edit: Nevermind, I completely misunderstood the comment I responded to.

Ninja edit: Nevermind, I completely misunderstood the comment I responded to.

What else can the EU do? They can’t force an American company to follow EU regulation outside of the EU.

Edit: oh damn I read your comment wrong. I read it as “It’s pretty sad that the EU seems to only care about the privacy of its own citizens.” To that I’d say get your own regulation, but that’s exactly what you called for. Nvm then.

I couldn’t activate my W11 with a genuine W11 key taken from a previous W11 install.

At least 20 minutes is not enough to get to a place you want to visit though, while trains in many places ride straight into the city.

I’ve been using it on my phone for a fair bit. I still run into issues from time to time where pages don’t render properly, but that could also have to do with the adblocking which is a major advantage of Firefox. I only use Chrome now if Firefox doesn’t work.

I used to use Brave for years, and tried Kiwi for a fair bit too, but both of them have their own issues. I’ve found that Firefox works well enough for me now and allows me to stick it to the man.

Incredibly so.

There is also the issue that if you want to work together with other companies who use 365, they often want you to send them files in Office formats. Yes, you can also make Office 365 work on Linux, but at that point people already don’t want to try it out anymore.

Personally I just tried Linux Mint for a short period and there is a lot to love. But I’m doing a huge personal project in which I’m reorganizing tens of thousands of photos which I want to store in OneDrive and backup on a drive. Currently I’m just more familiar with Windows and I understand how OneDrive works (instead of something like rclone on Linux). After I’m done I’m going to reinstall Mint or something similar on my secondary SSD and try to set up OneDrive in a satisfying way.

Ironically I’m biting the hand that feeds me as I work as a lowcode developer using Microsoft Dynamics/Power Platform. But still, Microsoft can eat a bag of sweaty sausages for what they’ve done with privacy, bloat, annoying restrictions in Windows 10/11.

You all keep saying that, and I’m not saying I can’t ultimately make the move, but there’s always something that doesn’t quite work as easily.

Then there’s always a solution to that which isn’t quite what you want and involves a lot of terminal which isn’t really something casual users want.

For me this time it was OneDrive which I want to be able to use, trust, and have control over without terminal commands and a half baked GUI. I get it, fuck Microsoft, but it’s already paid for and we’re not moving because my wife, who is doing dome contracting work, doesn’t want to mess with what she is familiar with.

Why Safari? Apple is just another greedy corporation.

I reinstalled my pc and didn’t install chrome. Firefox is pretty decent.

I remember going from IE to Firefox when they came out with tabs way back. We probably shouldn’t have switched to chrome en masse in hindsight.

So they’re not getting back together?

Jokes on you. I don’t have nipples.

I’ve got 1000/1000 fiber for €32, which I think is a pretty good deal in the Netherlands at the moment. I will go back to 100/100 for probably a similar amount after my contract is up as 1000/1000 is simply overkill for our use case. But who knows, maybe I’ll find another deal.