In the UK it means the cop wants your ID and is willing to pretend your camera is a gun to get it.

Why tie it to death, why not a plain and simple 5 years?

What is unique to American people? I easily foresee the next Trump from any country.

Especially if they have the same bad voting system of “pick the lesser evil”. Do that enough times and you can get worse than Trump.

Everyone is at a different point in their understanding of the issue of proprietary software. Spreading good ideas is still good, perhaps better for younger people with only modern technology experience.

Source code or perish.

I too assume the Patreon App doesn’t do anything that cannot be done on their web page. I can imagine there are good dev reasons but also bad incentives to make it an app.

I am biased against Apple as I like being the one in control of my hardware/software… but is it a stretch to say Apple influence their users to use apps instead of web pages (so they can rent-seek a cut)?

Sadly the fallout is usually on everyone - eventually companies will copy a shady practice as it’s been shown they can get away with it until no other option exists. It falls on the technologically literate to call out when others are being mistreated or they can suffer too.

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Maybe it offers something better than on whatever web browser Apple mandates, or maybe no reason but user preference.

An app you can only get via the Apple store, mandated by Apple?

I don’t own the phone if the manufacturer controls what firmware ^low level^ software I can use on it. Preventing theft by never selling it properly in the first place!

Hope it’s public code if it’s paid with public money! Replacing it with proprietary software would be leaving one abusive relationship straight into another.

Seperating the modern web browser into discrete parts and each doing them well seems to be the only logically answer to me. (If ignoring the task of convincing the general public to do anything in their best interests). We already have dedicated video/music player software on our OSs.

can work on any web browser

Gemini can have competition of browsers: it’s feasible for one person to create a Gemini client completely, correctly and securely.

There are only ~2 web browsers left and making a new one at all is near impossible (forks with minor size changes are great n’ all but not meaningful enough to stop Google basically being in control).

To use Windows without a Microsoft account requires tech literacy these days, I thought. I would not be suprised if users didn’t choose to sync with a MS account but it’s doing it anyway, if that’s what MS want.

“Enhance users choice”. Even if I assumed good intentions, what the hell is a chatbot going to do??

Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it’s your book on your bookshelf even though another person owns the copyright). If someone else controls your computer then that erodes your ownership of it.

May allow

The benevolence! Your own computer can do whatever you want it to… if MS agrees to it.

I’d rather pay more money for a freer system but that option isn’t offered. Either I’m too niche or locking users down is more valuable than raw sales profit (or both).

I’ve not bought a console since they got internet and needed updates. Been Windows-free for a while too.

Usually they only comply by suing them, after nagging them for years…