The thing is either that license model changes, or those other companies selling the code cease to exist when nobody buys something they can't use.

There's no requirement that the open source code released after EoL has to be pretty or maintained, just functional to meet legal requirements. Using other 3rd party code would be a hurdle to get over I suppose. It would definitely take a different approach to design, but after the initial shock of changing, it wouldn't be more difficult to do long term.

Why would coding something with less restrictions take more time and money?

There are a few moments that just gut punch you. It's like Jurassic Bark in Futurama, one of the saddest scenes on TV.

I had the same phone, and the only reason I replaced it was because the USB C port was finicky. It must have been damaged at some point and when plugged in, the cable had to be just right. Wireless charging works great, but I wanted the stability of being able to plug in and know it would discharge over night when I didn't have a wireless charger. Otherwise, I had no issues with the battery, and I got the phone when it was pretty new to the market. I swapped it out just a few months back, and it's going to be my test phone for grapheneOS and may end up being a communal remote.

Where do you think we are?

Conservatives and religion. There's also a strong overlap between the two.

Nice

One of my good friends is a senior dev. His company is tracking lines generated by AI and has metrics and goals. It's absolutely disgusting.

Microsoft is such trash. It's truly amazing how much they've enshitified over the past 10+ years. Their OS versions have consistently been bad since Win 7, with a minor uptick when win 10 cam out, but that was on the heels of win 8.1, so it mostly was better by comparison. Server hasn't gotten better, same general product with a worse interface. They oddly duplicate some products like business or personal Skype, OneDrive, new v old teams, and new v old Outlook, the new that still doesn't work properly even having been out for over a year. The obvious yet egregious spying and data collection on top of the forced ads in the OS that most people have paid for. The hard push to force users to sync everything with OneDrive. It's all just trash.

Now you have the huge investment in copilot. Anecdotally, it's also trash and over priced. Every software I use for work has somehow got ties or available ties to copilot and we have initiatives to try and shoehorn that trash into our business. It's consistently a worse and unpredictable solution across the board. I personally think it's pretty clear at this point that all of the LLMs have peaked, the huge companies have already surpassed the peak usefulness and accuracy of these models, and now they are trying to claw back as much as they can to recoup loses. It's not going to be successful, because while tons of businesses are investing, there are far more that won't or can't because it's so price prohibitive. I'm fucking here for it. Watching any company that replaced people with AI or forced users to use it and kept metrics in utilization go under would give me more schadenfreude than I've ever experienced.

Watching colleagues commit genocide sounds an awful lot like being an accomplice to genocide.

Celebrating America hasn't been something to be proud of since before 2001. We had a couple of high points during Obama, but nothing that tipped the scales.

I'm personally disgusted by this place, and anytime I see someone with an American flag anywhere on their person or property, I immediately assume they're a conservative and I think lesser of them. I know that this isn't a reality, but that is what the American flag means to me, and I assume quite a few others.