Well...
A data center is... A data center. So a central plave for data.
It isn't called Data Warehouse, Data Industrual Plant or Data Mega Shop.
So - if the place is... a central place for the town people's data (as in OC's cases)....
Wouldn't "Data Center" be a fitting name?
So what?
As if the US government or US compabies don't play the same "underhanded" tactics to harm competition.
Selling at a loss to earn market share is a perfectly valid strategy for US corpos. Why is China supposedly doing the exact same thing suddenly not as nice?
That's the neat part - all always do!
Yeah.
Edge still has its problems, but it's nowhere near the hot mess it wass in 2015 when it was basically a reskinned IE. Once they switched to Chromium it was still a hot mess, butit did get polished and has all the features you'd expect of a modern browser.
That being said, Edge is the main innovator behind built-in AI chats and similar bloat, which Chrome also likes to shove down people's throats.
And although the feature has existed as a Firefox addon for ages, I think the first browser to support tab groups and horizontal tabs was Edge.
So since both are pretty on-par feature (and bloat) wise, run the same engine and are made and maintained by billion-dollar corpos gobbling user data, both seem like two sides of the same coin.
So for 'normies', it pretty much boils down to which ecosystem you're more ingrained - that will make you prefer Edge or Chrome.
Us lunatics on Linux and/or ActivityPub prefer an independent option.
Security wise Fairphone isn't up to GOS standards, so a collaboration wasn't on the table either way.
I don't know the situation, but if it's as this part of your comment implies, then that's clear bridge-burning on Graphene's part.
If the current phones don't have a chip or whatever, that doesn't mean they can't reach out to Fairphone and say "Hey, we'd like to promote our OS and join up! However, we requure such-and-such hardware. Are you interested?"
Saying "It doesn't have the chip, a deal with them will never work" without reaching out isn't productive.
I assume that Fairphone has quite the problems competing with more established markets and the OS is an afterthought, so they went with /e/. But hey, I might be wrong, and it's all a conspiracy to maie an illusion of choice with Fairphone+/e/.
But if the mission of Fairphone is fair production and repairability, the fact that security and privacy are afterthoughts seems like a reasonable (but foolish) standpoint. They should care.
However, since the mission of Graphene is security and privacy, that seems like they should be the ones to reach out and try to provide their world-class software to as many people as possible. This probably includes supporting more than one make of phone.
When the company's immune to accountability [...] backlash changes nothing.
Not really. Backlash is important because it shows there's an alternative. And not to the company - the company won't change. But its users, customers and consumers just might.
It creates publicity, which triggers people to talk and think about the issue.
Which is a good thing as well as a driver of change.
Boycotts are also effective. The only problem is, huge companies have their fingers in multiple jars (industries, brands, etc.) and their main customers are other companies.
This gives them a great dose of stability. But if people were to suddenly boycott all of say Nestle's brands, stores wouldn't order new Nestle stock.
There's also no need for extreme backlash in some cases. Just look at Walmart or Microsoft.
Microsoft is bleeding users at a record rate. Sure, the year of the Linux desktop is still not here, but Linux market share has been rising dramatically lately. Why?
Because Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot.
Walmart is a similar story.
There's something about huge consumer-facing companies that makes them extremely vulnerable to losing focus and falling out with consumers.
If some more Boeings fell out of the sky and not just one or two a few years ago, airlines would be looking to clear thenselves of all Boeing stock. This wouldn't even need backlash.
Backlash is a source of bad PR. And bad PR causes customer loss. That's profit loss. That's a bad credit score. Hell, even the government might take a look and find some issues they'd like to check out!
As you can see, this can all spiral out of proportion.
And backlash is the first step in this story.
The Free Market at work. If people can't afford to pay for a burger at McD's, they won't - even if they want to.
For the economy to work properly, everyone has to be at least somewhat well-off - not living paycheck-to-paycheck without a dollar to spare for a start.
Matrix Division, so any chatbot you ask about it can confidently tell you that's not a thing.
Nobody is asking for your sympathy.
What they expect, though, is some basic human empathy. It turns out the lack of empathy was what all the worst Nazi holocaust perpetrators had in common. A trait you share with them.
So chances are, you personally would inflict much more damage and suffering than the worst protagonists of WWII. Hope you never get the chance.
I'm ashamed to be a member of the same species as you.
Propaganda truly is a drug.
Use the word. Use it as much as possible. But never say "a quick Google search" - say "google it" "a quick google", "googling".
Saying "Google search" is a specific reference to the Google service, with an implication of how great and the best it is.
On my first read, I got the meaning right. However, I agree that it's very ambiguous. Were the "of" a "by", I'd swing the other way as well.
I love how they used that period. Seems way better than that lawyer guy from the Simpsons.