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The central issue was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its IE web browser software with its Windows operating system

They even had the same shit going on some 15 years later in the EU.

You could split Valve Dev from Distribution from Hardware. But that is a shitty split, I’m with you.

You could also just say: you have three years to split distribution into, idk, 4 subsidaries which are then “released” as own companies.

You could split geographically, and down the line those companies might compete with each other.

That’s what I mean with creativity. A lot of shit could be possible. But here we are and are told “it makes no sense”, “there is no alternative”, just crippling our own imagination before even using it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Then again…Gaben is the only billionaire I know of who improved my life. Linux rocks so much more these days because of him.

Probably would still chop his head off, but do it with a sharp blade, not the dull rusty one for the likes of Bezos and Musk.

There might be. But back tn the day we just knew that monopolies are shit for everyone (except the owner). So maybe we should sharpen that tool of law once again. But who am I kidding, not gonna happen.

It doesn’t seem feasible to break them up into smaller companies, how would that even work?

It is a shame how uncreative we as a society have become to deal with monopolies.

Remember when Microsoft almost got divided over bundling a browser with their OS? 'Cause Pepperidge Farm remembers 😅

JFK is shit, yeah. But LAX is worse. They don’t have any designated area for overlay. You have to go through immigration, only to go through security again to get your connecting flight. And immigration is rude, like, I don’t want to enter your shitty country, you make me do it, because you apparently don’t know how to build airports.

And security takes ages, so you wait in line, while you’re called out already to board the flight. Like I DON’T WANT TO BE IN THAT LINE! I did not want to go through immigration or security or anything. I just wanted to get my connecting flight.

The blood thingy always meant what it means today:

Blood is thicker than water

Open Office =/= Libre Office

The latter is a long standing fork of the former and considered the “FLOSS standard office suite”. It has a “modern” ribbon UI, but you have to set it like that, it usually comes with the “old layout” by default.

OnlyOffice is another office suite which brings a ribbon UI by default.

While not open source Softmaker Office mimics Microsoft Office the closest (and claims the best available MS file format compatibility, but I cannot say anything about that).

I sometimes look down on my own hobby: geocaching. It’s fun, gives a reason for doing hikes, leads you to interesting places, a lot of caches are awesome and creative. But somehow a lot of other cachers weird me out. If I meet others, I catch myself thinking more often than not “oh no, I enjoy the same hobby as those people? How uncool have I become?” 😂

Wait, are his feet as small as his hands, or what?

Here I was hoping to casually siege a castle, but alas, no battering ram to be had ☹️

Guys, Gals…hear me out: I can easily half all the numbers in your calculations: do something about the energy efficiency and get to the same per capita consumption as e.g. France and Germany.

Boom, instant less area consumption.

It’s how we end up with curl https://some.rando.url/install.sh | sudo bash -c as an acceptable way of installing software. Don’t understand it, don’t question it, don’t look at what that shell script you’re running as root does, just copy / paste / and go! I don’t want to care about the details!

How do you know that people do not read the scripts first and come to the conclusion “that is safe, nice that somebody build a convenience script I just need to read”?

there are dozens of replies like “just use yunohost” or “just rebuild your entire server with unraid”

Same as above. I read those comments as helpful “hey, that worked for me, maybe it does for you, YMMV” instead of “everybody should do it”.

Well permaculture is a thing in gardening ^^

I mean, it’s not “forever” as in “until the end of all things”, but as much set and forget as I would like in a knowledgebase (and in a garden).

Depends highly on the people. I learned that way, to get started with recipes enabled me to get early successes which in turn motivated me.

Down the road I needed different things from my setup, which could not be found in a simple recipe anymore, so I needed to learn the parts of the machine.

No, it’s routing you along businesses who paid for you to be routed along there. They crank up the monetization of maps.

I mean, no one is hiring me one way or the other, but with that method I can look at my CV and feel I accomplished something. So, that’s good.

You can always freeze excess heat in case you need it later. Just microwave it, when needed!

That they’ll sell you big trucks only, forever. You can never own a practical, small car 😢

Wait until they discover some remote controller, where you can switch the games that are played according to some schedule. Like some form of game stations. Maybe they could broadcast them for the whole population somehow, so that everybody can talk about the games they played watched last week on their next town hall gathering or Sunday church with Aunt Lizzy.