This was inevitable. Everybody who was ever going to buy a Switch has already bought one. How else are they going to make more money? Keep increasing prices and keep cutting costs (enshittification essentially). These two will be the centre of all big business for the coming years.

Only new devices released after June 20th.

Bots don’t have IDs or credit cards. Everyone, post yours, so I can check if you’re real.

Same thing for most of billionaires’ income sources.

“Respecting [insert human right] would kill [insert industry].”

We are filthy criminals if we pirate one textbook for studies. But when Facebook (Meta) pirates millions of books (anywhere between 30 million and 200 million ebooks, depending on their file size), they are a brilliant and successful business.

However, the company said it had found no evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used to target or harm people in the Gaza Strip.

I’m sure it’s technically true. Can’t find evidence if you’re not looking for it. Or if you’re actively sabotaging any such efforts. Or if you’ve deliberately created a framework that makes it easy and likely for any ‘evidence’ to disappear.

From my experience, it’s almost always “Chrome doesn’t have feature x”. It’s the most feature poor browser currently in wide use. The only advantage that comes to mind is web dev tools, which: a) 99% of people don’t care about, because they aren’t web devs. b) Chromium also has, and it’s like the considerably less infuriating twin.

Some people really will desparately do whatever it takes to cling onto Microsoft’s slop, just so they don’t have to spend an hour or two learning something new.

And if you do actually need Windows for a very specific piece of software or one of those 5 online games - okay, fair enough. But we all know the vast majority are just lazy and ignorant.

It doesn’t mean they “have to abide by GDPR” or that they “are GDPR compliant”. All it means is they appear to be GDPR compliant and pretend to respect user privacy. The sole fact that the AI chatbots are run in US-based data centres is against GDPR. The EU has had many different personal data transfer agreements with the US, all of which were canceled shortly after signing due to US corporations breaking them repeatedly (Facebook usually being the main culprit).

Facebook used to have a team dedicated to analyzing their apps’ risks to children’s and teenagers’ health. The team concluded that there are indeed many serious health risks for both children and teenagers, especially teenage girls. Shortly after, it got disbanded, and all its recommendations completely ignored.

I think you’re bringing up good points about important issues. However, what the current US administration is doing doesn’t seem to solve any of those problems in any capacity. In fact, the previous administration did a lot more on that front, without collapsing the entire global economy at the same time. Also, as some other comments pointed out, almost nobody on the planet is ‘caving in’ to the tariffs. The vast majority of the world is simply cutting trade with the US wherever possible, resulting in Americans paying several times more for various goods, for no apparent reason or benefit.

Personally I’ve been of the opinion that advertising, at least in its current form, should be illegal since I was about 15. I’m not 100% sure if it should be completely illegal, or just very heavily regulated. Even after all those years, I’m still baffled nearly every day that people around me seem okay with current advertising.