There’s a popular misconception that lobbying doesn’t exist in the European Union. It does. Big money is constantly trying to sway and buy politicians into their interests, everywhere, and their interest are always right leaning social control. There’s also a right wave going on in the world. The EU is leaning right, and with it there’s a raise in popularity of dumb backwards legislation.

What is that reply even supposed to mean? I’m telling you I do all those things you say Linux can’t do. On a daily basis, I have for 15 years of continuous Linux use. Your facts are wrong, check yourself. The only one who doesn’t seem to know how Linux works here is you.

The move was to self-host storage. I moved my drive backups to a NAS and now it doesn’t matter how much storage the phone has. It can send anything I want to conserve or fetch whatever I need to use. It is a phone, it’s biggest strength is mobile connectivity, so it doesn’t need to have all the storage on device. Plus I can upgrade the NAS as needed and use it for other stuff.

There are Linux distributions that come with auto-mount configured by default. Wallpaper issue was desktop environment dependent but hasn’t been an issue in like two decades. Linux can mount natively both Windows and Mac proprietary file systems. It has been able to for decades as well.

Everything you stated as a fact is false. You’re either lying or are ignoring something obvious. If you don’t like Linux and want to talk smack, go ahead. But at least use criticism from this decade.

Shared drive is actually not a problem with Linux. Linux is multiboot by default. You can share any number of systems in a single drive as long as they all play by the same ground rules. It is Microsoft and apple who decided they won’t play nice with nobody else and that their users belongs entirely to them. Instead of, you know, the user owning the computer and doing whatever they deem fit with their drive.

I just noticed they removed the button to report ads as inappropriate.

If a fine is the difference between walking free and jail time, then the real crime is poverty.

If it can be paid with a fine. Then it is not a crime, it is a paid event with a premium entry fee.

Depends on your income. Enough wealthy people get away with vehicular manslaughter with a few months of domiciliary arrest, that it is essentially a meme in the US legal system. While a poor person of color would get shot at on the spot by police for knocking on the wrong door. Land of the free…etc.

Lots of questions posted here are not genuine questions. Instead they are socio political comments trying to manufacture gotcha replies for controversy.

Those are not stupid questions, they’re rethorical questions. They are not what the community is for.

“No stupid questions” means that genuine good faith seek of knowledge or dispelling basic ignorance will not be shamed. Political rethorics will be shamed though. Thoroughly downvoted and mocked.

Heroic replaces all the functionalities of lutris without being near-vibe coded.

There’s a manual install feature that allows for the same flexibility without any fuss.

Have you heard of F1? Do you know what it costs to just watch the F1 legally on streaming? have you ever wondered who goes to watch an F1 race when they completely shutdown a city for everyday people (like Las Vegas or Montecarlo), and how much the tickets cost?

It’s called value-based premium pricing, and companies couldn’t care any less about how much any of us think it costs to make the thing they are selling. They are simply charging the lowest price that their highest income target demographic is willing to pay. If you are not going to buy it, it doesn’t matter. You weren’t the target anyway. The people with tons of disposable income and a very high nostalgia induced perceived value for the cartridges are. You and I, we are rounding errors, we don’t matter. A single buyer is worth 20 people like you or me., they make up the difference by a long way.

Same way the F1 doesn’t care that Average Joe, or the other 100 thousand people like him, can’t afford a ticket for Las Vegas Grand Prix. The few one or two thousand high wealth targets can cover the difference. And they are not limited by living in Las Vegas or in Nevada. Wealthy people from all over the world will fly their lush private planes or first class seats to get there.

Same way free-to-play games don’t care about the complaints from the credit grinders. They only care to keep the whales happy. So on and so for. Value based pricing is the wet dream of CFOs and CEOs. It is the number one strategy that businesses turn to as soon as they have a captive market, it is the one they turn to when they are trying to maximize profits in a declining market, it is the one strategy that spears head enshittification. Why sell one million $1 copies when you can sell 20k $300 ones?

This is why “vote with your wallet” is a dumb thought terminating cliche. Your wallet-vote is worthless for companies, if on the other corner there’s a smaller, less vocal, but more willing to pay group. That’s why companies charge $100 for a download of a video game that might or might not work and don’t even blink when people complain.

It’s interesting that across the board, games released this year barely account for 9% of what people typically played.