Or they keep the prices up because consumers got used to them.

A few weeks ago journalists said that complete systems will not be affected short term because OEMs order RAM and SSDs a year in advance.

So what is it?

I’m not defending Microsoft but to say that Stardock is sketchy has no base in reality.

https://www.stardock.com/products/start11/

Costs money but works with only minor quirks when switching between iGPU and dGPU.

Less diversity isn’t good

Less proprietary crap is good. Free software is always preferable to fake diversity through proprietary Microsoft products.

What about WebKit? That makes 3 browser engines although it’s primarily used on Apple devices.

WebKit-GTK is fine, Ladybird and Servo also exist.

The vehement defense of a shitty, proprietary Microsoft browser here is astonishing.

I mean the choice between only two browser engines isn’t what I would call “free” though, especially since Firefox is also pulling more and more bullshit.

Gecko and Chromium are both fully free software. Old Edge isn’t.

He made a good overall point.

No. It was a very weak defense of proprietary software.

Just saying he is wrong doesn’t actually make him wrong.

Just saying that doesn’t make it wrong but the “argument” is wrong.

Doing so reduced the amount of diversity in rendering engines

It killed the last proprietary engine. It made the web more free.

That’s a loss for the Web as a whole.

You’re wrong.

OCR and making this an accessible text post would have been easier.

Moving from a shitty proprietary web renderer to participate in Chromium development was an improvement.

What’s a phone bo?

More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?

How many embedded DRM-controlled news article videos are you watching on your living room tv though?

Obviously it’s only a fraction of the overall DRMed content out there but it exists, most notably for live sports that TV stations stream for free on their website but require paid subscriptions when using streaming apps.

Then I won’t watch those, simple as.

Doesn’t change facts for millions of others.

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Random clips on the web are DRMed these days, like news articles with an embedded video. Many CMSes just DRM all clips. Totally BS but I’ve seen the video frame staying black on a bunch of sites now.

People who connect TVs to the Internet only invite malware. They usually don’t receive big fixes after a few years and tend to spy on all watched content.

Pretty sure DRMed content refuses to play on those.

If meeting sales projections fails, heads roll. Literally.

Generative works cannot be copyrighted

While that is generally true, a derivative work of a copyrighted work is usually copyrighted by the original author (see remixes of music where the remixer only partially owns a copyright for the remix but the original artist does as well). That is what makes generative AI so risky. A court could order “This is a automated modification of work XY, thereby the full copyright lies with the author of work XY.”

Then use a free OFL-licensed font. Or cooperate to commission your own fonts to share among this consortium.

Really a non-issue if you’re not stupid.

No, Fuchsia is a completely new OS, not using the Linux kernel at all.