Did they do anything about the cartridges yet? Some printers detect when cartridges have been refilled by the user and are programmed to stop working then. Even at consumer level, the prices of a cartridge is criminal compared to a bottle of inkjet ink, with enough for many dozen refills.
Cartridge: $50
10 fl oz of printer ink: $12
Of course she wouldn't lie to anyone. Just wait 'til your totally safely kept money becomes programmable by central banks, regulating where you can spend it, when you can spend it, what you can spend it on, and builds a neat profile of yourself linking every single activity you do, online and offline. We wouldn't want any terrorists or bad citizens to be out there now, would we? /s
I agree. I think for most the answer may be a mix of complacency, convenience, and conforming to the norm.
Free software and the FSF. When the Snowden leaks came out, they weren't news to me – just confirmation.
This has been around for a very long time. I'm always surprised that more people haven't heard of it.
Yes, this is the crux of LineageOS. There is a fork called DivestOS that is more libré and reduces dependence on Google services, as well as having bootloader re-locking for some devices.
Google does this time and again, and a workaround always gets released eventually. Then again YouTube has been steadily going downhill these past several years, so maybe it's for the best.
Fedora users are just "beta testers" for Red Hat's main distro, RHEL, and it really did feel like it. I started on Fedora and moved on swiftly after finding better distros.
Firefox? That's a strange way to spell LibreWolf.
Mysterium looks pretty interesting, being completely decentralized. All the mainstream VPNs are pretty shady to me, being run in a centralized manner and some heavily marketed by "influencers".
You do realize that RHEL is open source, right? The "pirating" has already been done by RockyLinux (formerly CentOS).
I've found many startups are merely "investments" by some entrepreneur that were intended from inception, whether explicitly or not, to be grown to a sufficiently negotiable state and sold to the biggest buyer. That's not to say that big tech companies don't buy-out their competition, but many startups also dream of being bought-out.