This is the same false analogy people make as to why Americans drive giant trucks to shift blame… it’s not the manufacturers who are pushing these cars to circumvent taxes, it is the users for demanding it.

Very few people actually like these invasive shit Microsoft pulls, but the vast majority either do not know about them, understand them or feel they have another choice. For example, I hate MS, I understand what dog shit this Recall feature is, yet my job will provide a Windows machine with it and I have no choice but to use it.

I am a nerd so at home I do have everything running on Linux. But for the majority of people that would be a unknown option or just an unobtainable one

Iceraven for the win!

You have no idea how many times I mentioned this observation from my own experience and people attacked me like I called their baby ugly

ChatGPT in its current form is good help, but nowhere ready to actually replace anyone

As others have said, the implication in this article’s title is silly… Sure r&d phase start easily explains this

What I’m curious about is how you spend that much money in such little time? Was that money actually spent or just committed?

they are just forcing the company to divest from it’s Chinese parent company.

… Or get banned

They may not have to maximise profits but the shareholders will question every decision that doesn’t maximise profits so the result is the same.

If that were true, we wouldn’t see the obscene salaries of C-suite level execs skyrocket… That money cuts into the profits as well, you know?

They are ok squeezing their workers while giving themselves the sweet life on the company’s dime

That’s why activist investors that push companies to more ethical behaviour are important.

This is a fairy tale force, like Santa or the boogie man. You’ll never get ethical behavior from profit seeking entities

Good to know … I have honestly kept away from most social media after a stint in Reddit that pushed me here

I have never had a Facebook, insta, Google whatever social, tiktok, etc so I don’t really get what people like there

Currently, the government can request any data they want from TikTok and they are obligated to provided it.

You mean exactly like all big tech in the USA?

Which is in my opinion the actual goal here… The USA talks about free market and crap but usually cannot compete unless they make the rules, set the referees, start with double the money, can’t go to jail and charge triple passing go

Either tiktok becomes an American company or leaves… Ah, the free market has spoken

I think it’s a gamble… Too many people love tiktok (don’t ask me why) that they know the pressure on the gov would be terrible

More importantly, a forced sale (with a time limit to boot) is bound to fetch them the worst deal ever

I think they are calling their bluff

And before anyone comes at me with some stupid fallacy, no I don’t love the Chinese government or I’m trying to imply tiktok has nothing to hide and it’s the source of rainbows and warm sweet buns

Fair… But I still suggest you take it for a spin

Yeap, it’s a completely different paradigm

If this is to be used by the IDF against Palestinians, they won’t put in tear gas…

Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders,

The is not true, stop spreading misinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits

Tetris…

It’s not about that… It’s about feeding the porks of the military industrial complex

That’s what I was going to add… After Win7 the dissatisfaction mounted enough for me to try Linux… Then I kicked myself for not switching sooner

Subscription? That sucks… I bought it outright a bit back, it was pricey, maybe $15 CAD? (Can’t remember)

Sorry to hear it has gone up so much… But that does seem to be the way of the app world… Pricey, subscription (even when they cannot possibly justify it) or both!

Awesome… Now I have to check sesame

I use Niagara Launcher and love it… maybe you will too