We're literally pumping money into our poorer members to get them up to speed

The average user doesn't give a crap about foss, so I think the reasons aren't about the openness itself.

A big one is always the network effect

That's why Switzerland charges a percentage of income

Honestly though, peoples priorities are wierd. Refuse to use Epic while handing over waaayy more sensitive data to Google.

If you're concerned about data collection, start with changing your search engine. Then maybe your browser. Then your email provider...

(Written from GrapheneOS)

"Yes, wanna meet him?"

Is there a law that you must use a trademark to keep it?

So this is the famed elegance of Apples ecosystem

Everything conservatives bitch about is a generalisation

pinephone

They have their use, but I'd say in most sentences the gender doesn't matter at all.

"She went to the grocery store.": Here the gender of that person is as important as any other attribute like the color of their shoes.

Imagine we have pronouns based on shoe color, let's say "de" for someone wearing white shoes. "De went to the grocery store."

And now someone proposes we could ged rid of that pronoun and you say "knowing what shoe color people wear is very useful though!"

You get what you pay for. If you buy a loss-leader they will of course try to get more out of you

When I buy a game I now always look first if there's a DRM-free version on GOG