What’s an app launcher?
What’s an app launcher?
Yes, my Tesla came from the factory with the headlights pointed at the sky. Was getting flashed all over the place. Fortunately they have an easy GUI in the MCU to aim them. But I’m sure many drivers are not smart enough to figure that out or even realize it’s possible.
Probably because Europeans have largely solved this problem with laser/Matrix headlights that can identify oncoming traffic and turn off only the lights that are specifically pointed at that vehicle, but these are illegal in the US.
It is true. I specifically mentioned Chimera and Bazzite. The experience is totally different with those. Also if you have an Nvidia GPU, you’re probably going to have a bad time regardless. Left that bit out. But I solved that problem by switching to AMD.
Might be based on FreeBSD, but much in the same way as Android is based on Linux, it doesn’t provide you any of the freedoms that a typical Linux distro does.
Yes…Yes it does. Ask me how I know. Actually I’ll just tell you: I use it every day.
I agree for the most part but it really does “just work” for gaming. If you use Chimera or Bazzite it works almost just like a console.
Didn’t know about the MS/Apple thing, thanks.
When it was time to sell, Microsoft pocketed a sweet $550 million, making it more than a three-times multiple.
I hardly think this could be considered “helping” Apple.
I’m saying that one of the reasons Google shovels money in their direction is to stop regulators from having a reason to take a closer look at Chrome’s dominance.
I really don’t think they do. And the contracts reflect as much.
Regardless, none of this has anything to do with my point that no companies have an obligation to help their competition, which you’ve already agreed with, so maybe I’m missing your point.
Can I just disable CUPS?
If they’ve already been deemed a monopoly? Sure. That’s a response to anticompetitive behavior.
like Microsoft with Apple in 1997
Don’t know anything about that.
Google with Mozilla today
That’s funny because this is the opposite of what you seem to be suggesting. This is not helping their competition, this is paying another company hundreds of million dollars to be anticompetitive against their competition. They paid Mozilla (and dozens of others) to be the default search engine. Its the exact anticompetitive behavior that caused them to be legally classified as a monopoly.
They literally, objectively, have, monopolistic anti-competitive power
They literally don’t.
in literally every single western democracy you have special obligations to actually further competition
You literally don’t.
It isn’t. And they don’t.
What do you expect them to do? Not actively helping your competition is not remotely the same thing as being anticompetitive.
it’s that there are very good reasons to not have these in my car
There’s also very good reason TO have them, as I’ve already explained.
the loud alarm and policeman on the road searching for the stolen car has worked well for decades
LOL no. It hasn’t.
haven’t heard of car theft in… a pretty long time
Right, my mistake. If you haven’t heard of it happening, it must not have happened.
think these tings do exist, in the form of little devices thay you can connect to your car’s OBD port, and they have a GPS receiver and a SIM slot to do it’s job.
…yes, that’s what we’re discussing…
I appreciate being able to check if I remembered to lock the doors.
How exactly does that work with a keyfob…?
I’d like to see a Sankey graph of where Valve’s money goes before I praise them that much for helping out a Linux distribution a bit.
I’d say it’s a lot more than “a bit”. It’s an enormous amount of help that pretty much everyone in the Linux (professional) community can, has, and will attest to.
I don’t agree that they’re a monopoly, because they’ve done absolutely nothing to prevent competition. Other stores do it to themselves.
I do agree though that their fees are exorbitant and their contributions to Linux are a teeny tiny fraction of their wealth, but I appreciate it regardless.
and a way to tell Windows that they could go without them if they don’t collaborate.
Ehhhh it’s a step in that direction. But as long as 96% or whatever of their users run Windows, it’s hardly much of a bargaining tool.
I do think that’s what they’re working for. After all Windows could flip a switch at any time and royally fuck them.
You install the same OS, you get the same experience. That’s what’s hard for me to understand.