It’s always like that. When the only goal is more growth, the C-Suite will fuck everyone and anything over.

But people gotta eat and be homed, so that won’t change soon.

The market cap is the number of share multiplied by the current share price. So this is a made up number because the reality is that not all these share would sell at the current share value.

Essentially, Apple Market Cap raised because people bought shares at a higher price after the announcements.

Because a GUI makes everything a lot simpler. I only started understanding how git works the moment I dropped the GUI and had to resolves issues through CLI.

The pandemic shortage marked the end of the RPi as a hobbyist board. All the stock when to companies, and every hobbyist shop jacked the prices, and scalpers even more.

Most of the time is for the owner to cash out. Either now, or in a short time when the ramp up is done, for more money.

The latter. It has been BIOS for so long that it is ubiquitous now.

It worked differently before because the information network was orders of magnitude slower and data was expensive as Pope shit.

Nowadays, the information is almost instant and everything is interconnected and data storage is cheap so we got big data with people paid solely to boil that down to algorithms that squeeze money as much as possible from customers.

Just look at all the streaming services that makes you pay more if you don’t want ads and they resell your data. Triple dipping baby

It will be like the IoT bloom of 2015ish where everyone and their mother had a new IoT product on Kickstarter.

I just hope it dies fast so that we can concentrate on the actual utility of LLMs and other AI sectors.

Here’s an idea, maybe stop killing animal for medical testing?

Other companies doing the same shit isn’t any better. But with Neuralink, they said that no monkey were killed during their trials, which is false. So it makes it even worst.

Yeah because it’s either a socipath billionaire or a dusty garage hobbyist. Nothing in between.

At the very least, the garage hobbyist has more chance to be a more ethical person.

The issue is not the tech, it’s how it is developed and tested, and the terrible track record of the mega corpos.

Just like AI, the tech itself is great, but corpos turn it into a pile of shit for the money.

It won’t be different this time around with daddy Musk.

Because it will encroach into everything if we let it be.

There’s always a dumdum like you saying “it doesn’t affect you, so why do you care?”.

Because the company implanting the chip killed a good amount of monkeys for their tests. They’re an unethical company.

Because Elon Musk is a fucking piece of shit and he is clearly disregarding the laws if it makes him money.

Because private, for-profit companies cannot be trusted to not fuck over everyone if it makes them a cent more.

Were you around during the ps1 era when you could go to someone and change a chip to play copied discs? That’s the same thing here.

Someone has the know-how, he shares that info and that’s it. There is no knowledge involved, and the person installing the VPN doesn’t even need to know what it is called or what it does, as long as it allows them to watch tiktok.

Then that person tell their friends and it spreads. There is no technical knowledge.

Your initial point is that if someone is capable of installing a VPN, he is probably not a tiktok user.

But VPNs nowadays are extremely easy to setup. If for a tiktok user that means that they can access tiktok even though it is bannes in their country, they will follow a guide to set up a VPN, or a friend will show them.

There is literally no knowledge involved in that. So i’m not sure why you think VPN users are above that.

It worked for Netflix, it will work for tiktok.

You think too far. Some people have the knowhow to install a VPN on a phone and access tiktok. They share that info.

People that just want to access tiktok follow the info to install the VPN and have access to tiktok.

Open-source does not equal free. There is probably a way to circumvent their paywall, but on their website, self-hosted free version has a limit of 1-on-1 for calls.

If you want a group call, you need to pay, even if you self-host.

An issue with mattermost is that some useful features are behind a paywall, like group calls.

I’d go with nextcloud since all their features are included regardless of if you pay or not

I don’t have the pc with me anymore, but I will try to find a screenshot that was circulating around with a ton of ads, which was my experience as well.

I just installed Win11 on a work computer last week, and there were at least 3 screens of the installer trying to push o365 or one drive.

Then you have the start menu where if you look for a software, 90% of the menu is an ad trying to push you a software. At the bottom, you have your search results.

And then there is the pop ups on the bottom right of the screen trying to sell you Candy Crush or another bullshit software.

That’s awful and I’m glad it wasn’t my computer

I genuinely didn’t know all that. Thanks for bringing that up. I’ve been lazy and told myself countless times I should switch to LibreWolf. Now’s the time.