The free option is not sustainable and does not reward the correct customer/business relationship.

I’m with you, paying is better than supporting the Ad business.

I just wish YouTube did not treat paying customers like criminals with the app based restrictions.

This is actually bad for the discriminated parties as well.

The South African government is using race based restitution legislation as a vehicle for bribes and corruption. They use it as a gate keeper to make sure that only those in the good graces with the political elite get opportunities.

If you open them and start googling part numbers, you will notice that entire subassemblies are off the shelf parts from China, not just components.

The solution is not to make rules based on where something is made, the solution is to have sensible rules that apply to everyone.

A product with a German label should not spy on you, nor should a Chinese one, or an American one.

Some arch+hyprland would be awesome on even this hardware.

Blackstone inc.

Private equity firm. Owns more than $1 trillion in residential properties. It also owns or manages around 250 property developers worldwide

Making it disappear basically solves the world wide unaffordable housing crisis.

Excellent work by Zapiro. Probably South Africa’s best political cartoonist.

Drugs cooked his brain.

Germany and Italy learn from their mistakes. The US keeps repeating them more than any other country (except for Argentina)

But those are Americans.

When last could a family in America raise two kids, have a stay at home parent, buy a house send them to college and still save for retirement on a single teachers salary. Most of the Abby boomers had that.

The problem is they are not moving the 500+ factories that feed that lab. They are not moving the over 100 raw mineral resources supply chains.

They are just moving the last few steps to the US.

They are doing this ass backwards.

Mandrake 2003. Followed by Ubuntu server 5.10 in 2005.

Switched to Debian in 2020, been on Debian since.

I use it because of the lack of BS.

Secondly, it’s stable.

Would not say equally shitty, otherwise they won’t have popular support they do.

You are correct however that they are not pro consumer.

They are just a smarter, wiser business with a sustainable business model that understands the importance of consumer trust.

Yes, Predictable release cadence is also important.

Manufacturers have to validate that it is going to continue working and remain supported. Rolling releases are basically impossible to accommodate in that process.

It’s also likely that Canonical is providing free assistance to them, in order to secure enterprise contracts on the other end.

It’s usually 10% of the device MSRP for windows pro.

There are some very low cost devices that get it for $10 for windows home…

This bubble does not just need to be popped, it needs to evaporate.

Wages have not kept up with productivity and GDP increases since the 1970s.

How about making single income middle class families possible again, so you can have one stay at home parent.

Yep, it’s only really its avionics that is getting out of date now. The rest of it is quite competitive. It lacks the power systems required to run the most modern radars.