Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it’s used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.

People pirate for not caring about the consequences

Death penalty for its use cases though is getting off easy. That’s why you find people killing themselves either with murder-suicide or suicide in prison

It’s like “what if we gave you no punishment at all”

It’s the same idea as “death penalty will scare people out from committing murder”

The hope is the threat will stop new people from getting into that

Mercury is another

Linux

The lengths people will go to to avoid upgrading

112 km a day, not a bad commute by Toronto standards - it’s one way for the Barrie to Toronto drivers

Investors want to make money, if it looks like they can’t then they are going to find a different company

That’s why Capitalism was so against people with wealth and so pro skilled labour

Here’s how it looks all time

Android users “i play both sides so I come out on the bottom”

They’re right but it would be great if companies had to allow self hosting for products they make money from

As a not-American we don’t say we have freedom of speech, we say we have protected speech and that is more inline with what you want

sounds like you don’t know what free speech is

Ask about your use case

You might do better with just a htpc

They bought the long term commercial version of Windows 10 instead of upgrading to 11 or Linux.

They suggested other people do the same

The anti-monopoly lawsuit against Google fixed that

https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/mozilla-firefox-biggest-potential-loser-google-antitrust-search-ruling/

Now Mozilla has to find a way to offset that loss, which would be attracting the non-Firefox market

You would need to literally connect to a proxy and send the request through that proxy in order for ads to see an IP different than you own.

Yes that is what was proposed, you’re the only one who seems unclear on it

Nothing is random

In bot cases like this you would have a proxy list that it “randomly” picks from

Source code access to your library?

Not sure what else they can offer

Over Vivaldi?

While I don’t think people get consoles without homebrew being unlocked first it is still better for homebrew to be unlocked on day 1

It will also give the possibility of open development