See I bet you think that would make things better, don’t you?

It won’t. It will make them so much worse.

Unless the EU (government) runs it, you’re going to get the world’s shadiest App Store or Sores possible.

“Just don’t use the shady ones then.”

That’s great until:

1. It’s your SO or kid accessing it and they don’t know any better.
2. You just bought something (an appliance, a vehicle, an FPV drone, whatever) and it requires you to use an app, and that app is an exclusive on the shadiest App Store possible.

“That doesn’t happen on android!”

It will absolutely happen with Apple, because there’s so much money that will be up for grabs.

I hope you like signing up with all your personal data and credit card information on app stores that make Apple look like saints, because that’s where this is headed, and sadly you’ll drag me with you.

Because again this hypothetical thing you bought might be a family member buying it, so it won’t even be up to you at that point.

This is what I see happening in the future.

The way to avoid it is to get rid of app stores completely, and have users download and install apps one by one. Like that’s going to happen.

My self hosted projects have someone to appreciate them - me.

Marketing means bothering people. Two of the raspberry pi’s I own are dedicated to fighting unsolicited marketing. Marketing is anathema to me.

I have a 20TB seagate exos drive in my main pc and I hate it. Partly due to my case, but it’s noisy and does an obnoxious head reset (or whatever) every 7 minutes or so. It’s so loud.

ROFL no. I once knew someone who got offered an upgrade from whatever to Windows 10, only for it to fail half way through because their CPU was some weird corner case that the OS thought it supported but when it was time to boot… didn’t.

Also if you want to talk e-waste, look no further than Chromebooks.

Windows 11 has problems, this is hardly one of them.

If you still use twitter (no, asshole, you don’t get to own a letter of the alphabet - fuck off) then you are part of the problem.

Ok that app is deleted.

All the soulless companies that employ temporary tech workers in the US for the mega corporations here just collectively got erections. This is their goal.

Unlike social media?

The fucking healthcare conglomerate (owned by UnitedHealth, yes that one) that bought up the majority of medical practices in my region just sent me a completely unsolicited debit or credit card.

They don’t provide my health insurance. They’re just who owns most of the doctors offices around here.

The early adopters certainly are. You still see plenty of them including cybertrucks, unfortunately.

One of my friends is considering replacing his with Lucid cars.

They’ve had Teslas since well before Elon was problematic publicly.

“Paid search engine” <— no thanks.

Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.