Fr seeing in the modlog that people are regularly getting banned from parts of the fediverse for innocuous shit like "chronic downvoting" is so disappointing.
Imo however you do or do not hit the little arrow buttons should never have any bearing on your account or standing, at all.
I don't even understand why mods/admins have access to see how people are voting, fuck that bullshit.
I have a Pixel. It is literally made by one of the largest advertising companies in the world.
Bigger screens mean bigger and more obtrusive ads.
I'm convinced this is 90% of the reason right here.
Why is there steak at the steakhouse??
I would have pre-ordered Civ7, but then they announced it has Denuvo so now instead of pre-ordering I'm just not going to buy it at all.
Fuck denuvo and fuck corporations who think their customers should just bend over and accept whatever bullshit they offer for the "privilege" of playing their game.
There is so much good indie gaming content these days, we don't need these abusive mega-corp games.
That's exactly what the US government did under Teddy Roosevelt when it forced by law these large entities to divest and break up into smaller ones not subsidiarized to each other. And yes, they should also do this to Amazon and Microsoft.
edit: I guess I should say I understand they can't force them to break up in this instance, but they can simply state they won't do business with the entities at present and recommend it. If that doesn't happen, I am confident other savvy investors will be happy to fill any hole left by these giants. The world will keep turning, I promise.
My friend, you yourself have been implying this whole time that Google's infrastructure is too vital and important to remove - how do you not see that this means they are too powerful? Remember trust-busting? Remember anti-monopoly activism? Nobody thought that by breaking up the railroads people wouldn't need trains anymore, but they understood the danger of allowing a single company to have such market dominance and what it that would mean for consumers. Same thing here. And yes, I'm aware this requires continual diligence as the phone companies that were once PacBell are now bigger than it was, but that lacking of failure to continue enforcing anti-trust doesn't mean the concept is wrong.
No single company should be allowed to have such influence that very idea of them going away leads to the very doomsday considerations we've been talking about. That's what this is all about.
Step one in saving us from the oncoming corporate technocracy?
None that insane hyperbole doomsday scenario would happen. None of it.
I think people and societies are vastly more resilient that you're implying, and would survive an admittedly complex 6 month period to switch necessary services. Would it be hard? Yeah absolutely. But I've never accepted "but it's so hard!!" as valid reason to hold off positive progress.
What "normal solutions" are actually in progress with any real potential of happening? Be for fucking real.
Meanwhile what insane doomsday scenario do you think would happen if Google services were banned and people had the given period to find alternatives?
You're talking about a fantasy solution that doesn't exist then blowing the consequences of this possible action wildly out of proportion in gross hyperbole.
I wish Vivaldi wasn't Chromium-based, because I think it's the slickest browser out there.
But it's chromium, so it's time to move on to Firefox regardless.
Ladybird development can't happen fast enough.