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  • Any paid lobbying is bribery. Legislators should raise people's opinion who voted them in and act as representative, not say what others pay them to say.

    I can't believe it is legal in so many countries. Apparently though it seems more problematic in the US but European countries aren't immune either.

  • Windows is no easier to install (or even harder).

    I've installed both recent windows and common distros many times by hand (where unattended wasn't trivial) and found everything except latest windows 11 quite similar (including arch) and very easy. Current windows 11 afaik needs registry hacks but I've not installed one yet.

  • Yes it is possible to create disposable-isque api keys for different uses. The monetary cost is the cost of privacy and of not having hardware to run things locally.

    If you have reliable privacy friendly api vendor suggestions then do share. While I do not need such services now, it can a good future reference.

  • Nope, these services almost always require user login, eventually tied to cell number (ie non disposable) and associate user content and other data points with account. Nonetheless user prompts are always collected. How they're used is a good question.

  • Cut the crap. Flatpak uses hardlink from repo where file names are jash of the file itself. The chance of duplication is exactly same as that of duplicate files of same name in same directory.

    Flatpak repo grows because we trade uncertainty over abi stability with installing all needed versions of libraries. For abi incompatible builds you could already do that in many distros (versioned soname) but to a lesser extent.

    Also I usually do not install nvidia GL with flatpaks that I won't run on nvidia on hybrid gpu laptops anyway for energy reasons.

  • Contributing to AOSP is already difficult. Now patches wrt stable branch will lead to more conflicts as stable gets older.

    Why are parts of Android developed in private? It typically takes more than a year to bring a device to market. And, of course, device manufacturers want to ship the latest software they can. Meanwhile, developers don't want to constantly track new versions of the platform when writing apps. Both groups experience a tension between shipping products and not wanting to fall behind.

    total bs (at https://source.android.com/docs/setup/about/faqs#why-are-parts-of-android-developed-in-private).