A big part of Broadcom’s current business model seems to be:

• Buy company that makes an important product/service used by many big companies.
• Squeeze the acquired company for every last drop of short term profit; increasing prices, abandoning products, etc.
• Watch large companies jump ship to other solutions
• Repeat

This is at least a main part of the reason. I use an open source client for GOG on Linux, the only reason why is because they don’t natively support Linux.

Yeah state ballot measures about abortion won’t change a thing when it gets banned federally.

You may be able to root the LG TV and use https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos, which supports ad blocking and sponsorblock. Or you could install it with developer mode, but developer mode has a limited session time.

In my experience using an older android phone for self-hosting, the downside was a lack of ports and I/O. Being stuck with a single USB 2 interface and wifi was less than ideal for my use case.

I ran a Minecraft server on termux and (IIRC) AnLinux once. It worked surprisingly well.

I switched from a GTX 1080 to an Arc A770 for this exact reason. I was sick of putting up with the bullshit NVIDIA drivers. I am much happier with the Intel card, with the exception of it not having VR support.

If I am remembering correctly, Australia also has laws that allow the government to force private companies to build backdoors. I think it was the Ass Access Act.

1 grain is equal to 64.79891 milligrams. This would be a lethal dose of fentanyl.

Most public schools wouldn’t have the budget to allocate a staff member to create and maintain such a distro. It would also take quite some time to flash to all of the devices.

The management tools built into chromeOS are also mature and very compelling to schools. Most schools don’t see the value of reinventing the wheel when a mostly ok solution that takes no extra effort is already available.

The title is fine. The trademark is “App Store”, Not “Apple App Store”.

I… think that is a human