maynarkh

The customers will come by themselves!

Nice.

Common sense regulations like safety and such make sense, but isn't that just part of the "race to the bottom"? I mean, if a regulation is well-written, it either affects all participants equally, or affects larger market participants more to enforce a balanced market with many competitors and healthy competition.

I could see it might be something other than described, or I might not be getting some implication here, but what is described here sounds like a "race to the bottom" with regard to profit margins, and that is how a market economy should work, at least according to my very basic econ studies.

The same exact product offering should have decreasing profit margins due to competition, which companies should compensate for with innovation, but what happens very often is that market distortions are introduced by either the government or big market players to heighten profit margins artificially.

I'm reading this sentence as "profits go down drastically as competition sets in". That doesn't preclude regulation.

Thanks for entertaining my questions, I am really trying to understand the point here.

I still don't get it. Isn't the point of capitalism and a market economy to have a constant "race to the bottom", eg. a race to provide a better service for a lower price on the supply side? I mean, interfering with that would be picking winners and losers, wouldn't it?

As in tradition in China, the government will now let them go into a price war to push the manufacturers to find cheaper ways to make them. Many will go bust or give up.

Isn't that how a market economy is supposed to work, I mean normal textbook style? That's how capitalism was sold to me in my econ classes.

Not like that happens with US stocks.

I have no idea about how that industry works, but I guess piracy is not really driving stuff out of business elsewhere either.

Most people don't pirate. If piracy could drive companies out of business, gaming would be dead, especially indie gaming.

To be frank, I think the victims of the epidemic of loneliness that plagues our society is nothing to look down upon.

No, personal computers can only ever work with Windows. I just love that the common thinking process just accepted that problems, especially IT problems, can only ever be solved by 5 gigacorps.

BTW a lot of these will not even be laptops, I imagine they won't even need much. If Windows was a proper system by the way, they could be still supplied with security updates by third parties.

Also, I've seen Rufus claiming to be able to remove the TPM requirement from the installer. I didn't test it though.

it’s on those applications to support wayland, not the other way around.

Again, I'm not too knowledgeable about this, but isn't XWayland a reasonable stopgap for this issue?

Red Hat kills X11

I mean Red Hat does bad things, but is switching to Wayland a bad thing?

Yes.

Yes.