These companies absolutely do need proper competition, but any classification of them as ‘American’ is shortsighted. These are truly multi-national, global corporations who exert their power across the entire planet and harm people across the entire planet, including in America itself.

It’s only thanks to non-American, non-European countries that I can still afford to buy some things every now and then.

At this point, it doesn’t even make sense to refer to Microsoft, Google, etc. as ‘American’ companies any longer.

The central destructive forces in the world are truly multinational. Multinational corporations, billionaires buying entire governments. Just referring to them as ‘American’ implies that these organizations, themselves, have some loyalty to the United States.

They don’t. They hate U.S. institutions, so they bought them. They hate American citizens, so they take from them and harm them. The genuine threats to all of us, everywhere, are capitalists, and they have no loyalty or regard for anything other than themselves.

Maybe they’re trying to get potential players of Elder Scrolls VI so hyped that they’ll still play the new game even if it’s sold ‘games as a service’ style

in which case, fuck that

Yeah, there have been numerous studies on this, and your impression aligns with the outcomes of those studies:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-four-day-workweek-reduces-stress-without-hurting-productivity/

https://www.4dayweek.com/research

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/01/rise-of-4-day-workweek

Given that the research shows a four-day workweek gets better results for everyone (including employers), it’s worth asking why we don’t have one–who is preventing it?

The most important outcome of this, of course, is that it makes for better worker conditions.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/what-countries-have-4-day-work-weeks

A handful of countries have four-day workweeks.

If we’re not going to get rid of the system in the United States where we all have to work for the majority of our lives just to survive, then the four-day workweek is a good starting compromise.

We could easily do so if not for the billionaires.

This is so good.

1990s TNG had a good heart.

Thank you!

Yeah? I’ll do this if I’m forced to use Outlook for work again.

I’m interested in knowing this too as I’d like to migrate everything I do to a non-invasive platform.

That was a great feeling–taking something locked in, programmed, something that used intentionally deceptive description and design, and finding a way to make it your own. To, basically, break the deceptive design and make the device better by “breaking” it.

When I rooted my first Android phone I felt that way. It’s a shame how much of the computing power in phones is used for nothing but harvesting our data and profiting from our use of the computer.

There’s so much more we need to break now.

Yep. A Linux build + Firefox (with Privacy Badger and ublock origin plugins)

Now I’m imagining this too.

Anything that gets you to target people with less power than you is a psy-op.

There is only one group of people to oppose. It’s a small group of extremely wealthy people. All their mouthpieces on the internet are irrelevant (and likely bots) and are best ignored/blocked.

There is one small, powerful group who are the only justifiable targets. Everything else is a distraction and likely a divide-and-weaken tactic.

One small group of powerful, wealthy people. That is the enemy. No one with less power than you is worth focusing on.

This game is so good. I hope Larian builds something even better for their next go.

Right there with you.

Yeah, I have an older Motorola phone that I’ve used to try and get Android alternatives, and none of those three systems will work on my phone. It doesn’t look like any of them will work on my new phone either, but that might just mean I have to try it.

Google/Android also seems to make it as difficult as possible to install any alternative system. The easiest I saw was /e/OS because it was all automated, but after about 10 minutes it informed me that my Motorola phone just wasn’t supported.

There’s such a long ways to go with this sort of thing, but I think it’s pretty clear that the world desperately needs a user-friendly, non-corporate alternative to Android/iOS.

It’s really a bummer that we’re all carrying around powerful little computers with us but the corporate operating systems for them use much of that processing power for their own data collection/profits/purposes and tries to prevent us, those of us who own the phones, from using that power for our own purposes.

There’s a lot of good stuff on F-Droid, and it’s nice to see a university doing a project like this.

I’m still waiting on a solid, consistent alternative to Android. It seems we might be getting there with tiny steps.

A national treasure.

I hope they don’t kill her.

That’s very strange because I’m in Berghain right now.