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I hope they're using a lot of scaffoldings during the Epstein Ballroom construction

What is it about reddit-style social media that brings out the obnoxious le redditeur archetypes? You're just talking out of your ass and being snarky about it. Peak redditing.

Let’s start with a baseline: monopolies are not illegal. Let’s say that again: monopolies are not illegal. If that is your point, “you’re wrong”.

Putting words in my mouth. I didn't say monopolies are illegal, you just made that up to be snarky. The rest of your comment is just you pulling stuff out of your ass with no kind of citation whatsoever.

When the government tries to pursue a case to try and break up a monopoly, they're not trying to prove that the company fits some textbook definition of the word "monopoly". That'd be stupid, and lawyers may be a lot of things, but "stupid" generally isn't one of them.

They start by defining a specific market or markets that the company participates in, showing consumer harms (aka the consumer welfare standard, which actually sucks and the Biden admin was trying to correct, but whatever) by the company's business practices/structure, and recommending remedies, like a break up. So it technically doesn't even have to do with the size of a company or their market share (although that's usually a major component).

So, before we even begin, we can see that this does not really apply to Valve. Valve has competition

Again, this conclusion is based on your incorrect understanding of how antitrust regulation works. So there's no point in me correcting the rest of your post. Instead, I'll summarize and translate it into what I think you actually wanted to say:

"I like Valve and you're a meanie for implying they're doing something bad"

It was an idea he wrote about once for a high school homework assignment, and he got an A on it. (/s for people not familiar with Canonical's weird obsession with employee highschool performance)

The only reason I can think of to use a Snap is that you're using Ubuntu, and some package you expected to be available through apt is now only available as a Snap. The better solution is to not use Ubuntu, and rely on Docker or Podman to get anything not available as a system package.

Thank you Canonical for reinforcing my pre-existing opinions about Snaps, and your organization more broadly.

Because source maps show how shitty your organization's code and overall engineering practices are.

You might be "pretty sure" but you're wrong. The people who wrote our carefully thought out antitrust laws didn't just go with the first definition that came to mind.

ITT: people who don't know the legal definition of a monopoly, and are going off the Hasbro definition.

But don't worry fellow gamers, the Trump administration would never allow the FTC to enforce antitrust law.

It's neat, but not a serious competitor to something like Framework. The MNT laptops are just cool shells around a Rock chip RK3588, which is a quad core ARM (meaning it only has two performance cores, and two efficiency cores). It's a good competitor in the Raspberry Pi world, but not a serious contender in the x86 one.

If they somehow release a modern x86 version, RIP framework. Otherwise, I don't think many existing FW customers will be switching to MNT. (Although there are a lot of other better laptops on the market they could switch to)

It's just a weird coincidence that so many major tech CEOs are Indians. It's business as usual that tech CEOs are far right, regardless of race.