I really do not like such comments. Do free alternatives always have to be better than everything else? Even if people would find out that Facebook was always watching them via their cameras and were selling their nude pictures to the Hezbollah, someone will jump into the comments and say that they can’t use Mastodon, because some bogus reason. Yeah, accessibility could be better, but have you even taken a look at whatever nightmare UIs Microsoft has been pushing for years?
If they are doing it in the UK, they are also doing it in all other european countries
And let’s be honest: Just doing a data protection audit at those 1000-15000 partners would enhance privacy for everyone. Those companies are shady as fuck
If you want to fall into an online rabbit hole, search for superyacht security. Those billionaires are spending a lot of money on security and they are totally not keen on getting kidnapped by Somali pirates:
According to a source in the industry, the website Business Insider reported that in a recent foiled plot, an armed pirate group approached a superyacht in the Arabian Sea. However, the pirates were thwarted after the captain deployed sonic weapons and electromagnetic pulse beams that caused severe burns as a countermeasure.
When it was delivered to billionaire Abramovich in 2010, the yacht was valued at 350 million pounds. However, after upgrades and the addition of many modern features, the value of Eclipse is now estimated at around 1.2 billion pounds. The primary factor driving the value of the Eclipse superyacht up is its advanced security system, which includes surveillance radar and a missile defense system along with escape submarines.
Yes, escape submarines (!)
https://scimyst.com/explore-the-ultimate-weapon-on-super-yachts-120251/
That’s a good thing - we are seeing a privatization of public spaces by private entrepreneurs. That nice town square where people could hang out? It’s now an outdoor restaurant. That lovely street? Tables full of tourists eating. The sidewalk? No way to get through, there’s now a restaurant. It might have “flair” and “outdoor culture”, but we really need to use sidewalks as sidewalks and not as restaurants
When we are in the middle of a tech bubble and one of the richest and most connected men on earth decides to cash out, then that is not “stonks crap”, but relevant tech news. Some companies stock price rising by 2% is not news, but this? Yes.
Yeah - many of those problems now have their roots in the Merkel era and Merkel & the CDU did nothing to solve them. Those ignored problems are now coming into the daylight and it’s ugly
Privacy and Security. You’re out there where no paparazzi can take bikini pictures of you. It’s easy to secure so that nobody can kidnap you. And take a look at the interior of those Yachts, they are not cramped. Look at this thing:
It’s bigger than your home. It has its own helipad. It is 111m long.
Those Steam Machines are just normal PCs. There should be no reason why you couldn’t dualboot windows to play those few games that do not work on Linux.
<insert furious comments here why Canada is allowed to parcipitate in Eurovision even if it’s not an european country>
I mean, I can see that it is kind of hard to program your own accessibility tools esp. when you’re disabled. But in this case it literally is “Pay money to be spied upon by a ruthless company in bed with the Trump administration” vs. “use this free software that is not spying on you”
(and accessibility on linux is not that bad)