The article wonders why would anyone pirate, let us give him the reason:

1. Ads
2. Multiple streaming services costing many times more than food. With nothing to see except for re runs and rehashes of old content.
3. Ads
4. Rising prices for poor service and shit content.
5. Ads
6. Geoblocking
7. Ads
8. Low quality videos even if you are willing to pay just because you don't wish to use their specified player or browser. Why can't I stream it to VLC player without the overhead of a browser.
9. Ads
10. All the while the CEO and the executive of the companies raking in billions on the money they are saying charging us for the artists.

I forgot to add

14. Removing content when it is not making enough money.
15. Ads

I think Cottle means all the engineers at Meta have good intentions and I believe him. Its not the engineers whom I doubt its the managers, MBAs and CEOs I don't trust.

Yes it is still a democracy, maybe a democrazy. There are no widespread voter suppression, disenfranchisement.

The most recent election has shown that.

There are some pockets of election tampering, violence but nowhere widespread.

I think it is more about rage control than about loving or hating oneself. Like stopping yourself from chucking the laptop halfway across the room when it doesn't boot because you misspelled a variable in a config file.

I have a arch and debian server. I am afraid of the arch server. Debian I haven't touched since install other than updatingbit once in a while.

You have experience of Debian use it, or maybe go down fedora, rocky for homelab. You would want to experiment on the homelab not with it.

That is nothing new, look at Afghanistan.

Well they said let good people leave the company and then the company to go to hell.

I have had two kernel regressions causing unbootable install. Though i still use Arch on my laptop. For the homelab I would go Debian.

No.

Buddy are you trolling just for the sake of trolling or is that an genuine POV of yours.

If you are genuine then hear me out.

When a small company makes a prototype it is 1st to test, iterate and perfect. The 2nd job of a near perfect prototype is to promote the company to investors and hopefully garner money for the next step ie perfecting the process to make a finished product.

A small company notwithstanding even a big company like Nokia makes a single prototype to begin with and then replicate it to perfect the production process.

The second job is especially important for a startup who put all their money to make a prototype. The reason they gave it to LTT was for promotion. LTT dissed the company that the product is not viable but didn't highlight that the concept of perfected and made cheaper can become a viable option for water cooling. On top of that they sold it without permission, under the guise of charity, which I doubt even happened.

I would love to see them pull something like this with any of the big companies. That is an sure shot way to corporate suicide.

If they can't think of pulling something like this with a big company they should have thought twice before doing it with a small company.

Well we do like to make stuff up so why not...

You will still need to charge those EVs, electricity production is still dominated by production via burning of hydrocarbons, by-products of oil.

Not approachable at all.

Yup.

If you have seen three Stooges, that is what LTT videos are for me. No other value other than entertainment.

But after the thread by Madison it is getting difficult to support them for even that.

True I start a new movie or a series but can't see it past a few minutes.

Stock market is dependent on news rather than actual business. Good news is difficult to develop and requires actual work to be done.

Bad news travels faster, produces definite effects and gains immediate response and profit.

What's the worst that could happen, a company would go under. The vultures have already eaten their share and have made a killing in the death of the company.

Who cares about the losers the consumers and the workers.

The only good thing one can hope is for increased support for open source alternatives which are just there but not good enough for production.

Never used Apollo, but great news to have multiple ways to interact.

About the app being proprietary or open source it shouldn't matter. The foundation is federated community, the ways to interact can be federated too. Mix of open source and proprietary.

What will happen to an enterprise customer who does decide to share the source code that Red Hat shares with them?

I agree pms is a pain especially if it is delayed for more than a month.

The question is not whether Russia will hit a wall, the question remains whether there will be a Ukraine before that happens. Russia just like big corporations is too big to fail.