Are there other games or events that totally require Ticketmaster?

Crazy to see the thread of people using “open source” differently. The term “open source” may have successed in replacing the older term “free software” (in popularity) but apparently it can also fail to be clear. “Open” can mean various degrees of openess, or lack thereof in this case.

It’s free as in free food but adding an extra line to restrict how it can be used, or with who, makes it non-free software (free as in freedom).

I beseech you god of Irony, make it so Amazon workers can vote him out of office.

Probably the gun industry lobbying for this 🫢

If it’s MY car why would adverts be in it? What’s next, adverts in my shed?

Modularity and accessiblity costs more in research, design and testing but there are many factors to the purchase price. The question is if a lower price is actually cheaper if you would be replacing it over and over again.

Personally I don’t think the industry will change until consumers value more than just the price.

The warranty is 2 years. Warranty is the confidence a company has that it will last as long as that. Batteries eventually die, so that is the one part in mobile devices we can guarantee needs to be replaced.

Manufacturers make bigger devices difficult to repair - so it being a small form factor is just an excuse. When they try and it fails then is the time to consider if it’s feasible. Fairphone products are probably average at best but you can at least replace the batteries in a small device like their earbuds (Fairbuds), and assume they will get better at making their repairable devices.

Who’s expecting a computer to last about 2 years?

This is for “brand ambassadors” says LTT (WAN show).

The users who wrote the content are going to get a share of the money, right Reddit? Riiight? /s

Note: “I don’t use Discord/Datcord anymore because of their terrible TOS which Datcord can’t protect you from.”

What, you can’t have war if there are no people?

I’d like to watch but something makes me paralyzed when I anticipate the confrontation.

Sadly I think they have to aim to do both, to make the most money as a publically traded company.

Last I heard Apple was protecting it’s users from Facebook collecting their data… by being the ones who collect it instead. Maybe that not quite right as I don’t listen to news on Apple (outside of their opposition to right to repair).

Something tells me that could easily change.

This personnel computer

Wait, a proprietary OS is someone else’s computer?

It’s a reference to ⛳ Tiger Woods PGA tour 2004

I tried searching for this but couldn’t find it, thanks.

TECHNOLOGY

Peek Technology ! /s

If I had the option I would have chosen a smaller camera module and included an audio jack. I genuinely think they choose to not include it as a compromise, rather than to sell a cable you can get cheap elsewhere.

A master plan to make more money selling a cable than a port on an already bulky phone?

They proclaim to value open source and it seems they’ve tried to do some stuff in the past. I think software freedom is a natural conclusion of hardware repairability but it seems their priority is instead on being green and workers up the chain getting a fair pay.

They also sell headphone to USB cable. I’m not saying the lack of a headphone jack is good but if their goal was really to sell wireless earbuds then selling a USB to headphone cable was a bad move, no?

A follow-up video “Why I was wrong about fairphone” by Louis Rossmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAogtqyN22M

Still critical of lack of audio jack but praises FairPhone for including list of all components and board view of where each part is located and a complete schematic. In comparison to other phones manufacturers that’s night and day of repair-ability.

There have wireless headphones that you can use a USB-C wire with, but that’s not an earbud.

I’ve been looking for buds with replaceable batteries ever since my first pair degraded. Good to see FairPhone offering one that does it this time!

That makes it okay then, proprietary software that we can’t really find out what it does 😑

When Valve makes a change to Steam that you disagree with your choice is to give up using Steam, and your purchased games, or just accept it and continue. Steam is proprietary software: it gives unjust power over user’s computing. Even good people are not immune to the temptation to use power for themselves at the expense of others. While Valve have done a lot of good, indeed are the best, no one is perfect. I don’t understand why you think it has no potential to become a lot worse.

LibreWolf is good but requires setup to start using it (for me anyway). I like to keep history and open previous tabs. Also need to enable something for itch.io to load Godot games.

Nvidia is making plenty of money. This is about having power of their user’s computing.

A closer analogy might be selling uncooked food that is safe for people with a peanut allergy and then one day adding peanuts as an ingredient after they’ve paid for a shipment. [It should go without saying avoiding a peanut allergy reaction is more important than preventing a company locking you out of entertainment software you paid for]

It’s my hope that corporations will learn it’s a dumb choice to needlessly cut off their Linux users but a better choice would be to not play video games where a company can arbitrarily lock you out in the first place. I hope someone is working on a libre version of Apex.

I think it’s fair to assume shareholders want money from anyone who will give it to them.

Local laws determines if you can get a refund so I can only argue I think you should get a refund if a product stops working due to the manufacture.

Personally I’d rather not buy from them in the first place but there is likely a benefit to showing Linux users will buy it if you treat them right.

If they want money from from Linux users then they need to do better. If they don’t then offer out refunds.

The Amazon warehouse hiring method, go through them all?