Plenty of chemical syntheses are patented. Biological catalysts and precursors are patented every day. No one owns the rights to orbital calculations, because that would be like patenting the concept of a square root — it’s not novel or even complex within the field.

User base size dictates development resources. If you want Linux mobile to be daily driveable, you do need widespread adoption.

Look at the FUD getting voted to the top. This place is just as bad as Reddit.

Maybe some tech has increased efficiency (although, when it does that increase is more often than not temporary and short lived), but there is even more “tech” that swarms that space rent seeking any time, money, or other resource saved by that increased efficiency. After the efficiencies degrade, the tech-as-a-scam persists and you end up with less efficient systems than you started with.

For the past 20 years, tech has promised to make things more efficient while making almost everything more complicated and less meaningful. Innovation, for innovation’s sake, has eroded our craftsmanship, relationships, and ability to think critically.

I feel this in my bones.

Nope. Get fucked

WINE would like to join the party

No I can’t

He’s not. He’s beloved by people who know about WW2 through movies and YT “history” videos. Historians view him as a volatile commander who found success in theater when following plans and orders from others. He was reasonably well liked by the rank and file, but generally disliked by officers and brass.

This is accomplished by installing spyware directly onto the device, part of a program called DROPOUTJEEP.

So, not a backdoor?

I’m curious about this one. Most people I know have used it, but eventually stopped. Journalists and public figures use it, and I think that gives it an outsized presence in our culture.

At its peak it had 70 million active users. It’s just widely used in media and press, so there’s a perception that it’s actually popular.

Absolutely not

Lee-bray

This is already trivial. Bazarr has been doing it for all my subtitles for almost a decade.

Makes sense, it’s only reasonable to expect economy wide reduction in tech workers and positions as the global workforce recovers from the overtraining and overhiring that was the hallmark of the 2000s and 2010s. This is a good thing, society’s responsibility is to make retraining easy and accessible for the millions of trained tech workers who represent the overage.

I have yet to find something that has a deb or flatpak available and isn’t on the AUR.

Used on eBay and flashed with the Unleashed firmware. It’s the same price range as Ubiquiti stuff.

Ruckus APs with wired backhaul OpnSense box runs the network.

All them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

People shouldn’t be able to buy summer homes and weekend retreats? Fuck that.