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Captainant

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  1. That probably has more to do with the AppleTax being found to be an illegal act worthy of antitrust action. When they don't get to harvest 30% of EVERY transaction carried out on an iPhone they're invariably gonna raise prices. It really is wild how much their business model relies on just seeking rents from their users that already paid over a grand for their device
  2. There's a lot of Peter Principle executives making tech buying decisions that don't even know how to connect their headphones to their laptop or get their phone on the wifi. There's an incredible degree of blind leading the blind in the C-suite, or simply deferring their own decisions to whatever management consultants they hired
  3. Look dude, renewables are WOKE. Rex out front shoulda told ya.
  4. My guy, were you asleep during the entire January 6 crisis? Sure a few token lawyers have been disbarred but NONE of them have faced more serious sanction for the lies before the court and weaponization (that ones for you, Johnny) of the legal system against their political enemies. It's WILD hearing lawyers on surly repeat the trumpist line of "well it didn't work out, so no harm no foul" with regard to how badly the justice system was used and abused. Motherfuckers, the fact they even HAD an at-bat to try is the entire problem. Miss me with the concern trolling over how the differentially applied rules that let the fascists do fascism are what separates us decent folks from the fascists.
  5. Side note - it's extra funny that twice the IP lawyer is taking this stand while the our entire IP law framework is being undermined and strangled by the trump admin. Gotta love that extra dose of irony
  6. It hasn't been blatant because up until now the supreme court had been pretty overtly batting for trump. Now that they are not asking "how high" when he tells them to jump, he is ignoring them. I do not share your faith in our legal system to address a wrong that it has been enabling for decades.
  7. Pretty funny how one of the nation states funding hamas and Islamic extremism is just straight up bribing POTUS at this point
  8. It means the """free market""" business board regulars are about to decide they're ok with price controls all of a sudden
  9. I've got a DS920+ and it's been running great for 5 years now. Last year I upgraded my 4x10TB setup to 4x18TB and it handled the drive upgrade flawlessly over the course of about a week rebuilding drive by drive. Synology is definitely doing some pretty crappy things lately what with trying to force lock-in to their drives on new Synology units, but I've been a happy end user of mine for some time. It runs a dozen or so local network services in containers for me, and that little Celeron handles it just fine. Not to mention QuickSync for transcoding - I'm shocked that the little 85W brick is able to power the whole stack
  10. Hah I'll be damned thats real https://www.si.com/mlb/pope-leo-xiv-photo-chicago-white-sox-world-series-game-2005 At least SI's content mill is reporting it
  11. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    moderation works, whodathunkit!
  12. At least we'll get more Cecily Strong on Weekend Update
  13. Shit, have you heard of the shit they'll do just over a fence?
  14. Unrestrained corruption and oligarchy. Lovely. Say, where'd all the people thrilled about his free speech absolutism go?? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pushes-nations-facing-tariffs-approve-musks-starlink-washington-post-reports-2025-05-07/
  15. that's a bad headline - another hornet has not been lost. The "third" hornet is the one that just had the bad landing. First was the Gettysburg shootdown, second was the roll-off on the elevator, and third was this one
  16. going to jail for vandalism spray paint would be pretty outrageous IMO. It's fuckin' stainless steel! Sandblast that shit and send it back out - it's EXTREMELY HARDCORE(!!!!) Dude should 100% be on the hook for remediation and any fines though
  17. Big trouble in Inner Sphere (shout out to /r/Battletech) s6hh8c82hbze1DASH_480.mp4
  18. Sell off the national parks so that our oligarchs can get more tax breaks. Weeeeew! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/republicans-to-pay-for-trump-tax-cuts-with-sales-of-public-land
  19. The imps said they needed the Kalkite for coating "reactor lenses", the scene is used in two of the three "previously on" bits. My thinking is that we know Kyber is used as the focusing lens in a lightsaber to make the blade, and we also know they're able to handle the immense output from the main reactor of the Death Star.
  20. I have a called shot for next week Man the next morning and I'm still buzzing, that was one hell of a trio of episodes
  21. It really is impressive the fidelity that Gilroy has brought to a dyed in the wool story about revolution. It's wonderful that the show isn't just action or drama, they're woven together beautifully and pays off long running threads very satisfyingly. I can't wait to see how Dedra works out in 1BBY. That scene with Syril and her in the ISB headquarters was some WILD shit, it really effected her and did something to who she is
  22. Rex, I don't think you're ready. You may need to call a doctor after seeing so many protesters get teakettled and stormtrooper'd
  23. The sticking point here is that iOS users could always just open a browser tab and interact with patreon.com as a webpage - and iOS developers were systematically blocked from even informing their users that it was an option. When Apple breaks the rules and perjures themselves to the court, it's gonna be an uphill push for them to argue that they deserve to get paid for doing no work to produce, deliver, or maintain the digital content that's at issue here. I feel like it's being framed as if Apple was solely responsible for delivering digital content. They aren't. They provide app package downloads in a "safe and secure" manner through the app store, and justifiably charge a fee for doing so. They incur real, actual costs in doing so and provide an actual utility to developers AND customers. Once that app is downloaded, it's no longer Apple's problem to keep it running - that's on the developer's side of their shared responsibility model. If Apple isn't responsible for it or incurring the costs, WHY are the entitled to arbitrary add-on fees? And one step further, if your position is that they are entitled in the iOS ecosystem, why aren't they also entitled to do so on MacOS platforms and Microsoft entitled to charge a platform "rake" fee for every peice of business conducted on a Windows machine? Should I be responsible for cutting MS a check for a quarter of my closing costs on my new home in a couple days, because I'm doing the transaction on a PC that Microsoft has spent time securing the OS on?
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