I’ve run into the same with the latest Ubuntu using a broadcom wireless. Might be a broad failure.

Yep it’s blitzscaling. Run it at a loss until it’s a necessity, then charge whatever the hell you want. They’re blitzscaling our right to intellectual property and our right to work.

I can dig it

I’ve been thinking this for some time. It just seems completely implausible that companies like OpenAI will continue letting the people of the world use their product for free, what with the ruthless material requirements involved in it’s distribution and upkeep.

To me it seems clear that the right to intellectual property and the right to work or contribute meaningfully to a workplace (as if that were actually a right) are currently being blitzscaled. I.e. these guys are running their companies at a loss to allow their product to become a necessity. Once that’s achieved you will no longer have the option not to use it and they will be able to charge whatever they like.

We really need to begin pressuring states and governance to protect us from the predatory business models of these venture capitalists.

Post-truther detected.

Oh god that’s horrifying.

Yep it’s frustrating. The convenience argument doesn’t hold true anymore either. There was once a time where encrypted messaging services and self-hosted solutions were much trickier to on-board. That’s not the case anymore and even with the ability to just download and launch some software that does all this for you people still choose oppressive and unsafe technologies / providers.

Yep, inter-socially policed techno fascism is here to stay. I haven’t had a cellphone for 2 years. The amount of objective problems this causes in my life is somewhere between negligible to none. The amount of social problems this causes me is endless - people become personally offended that they can’t demand to chat with me at their liberty.

Man I’ve been seeing so much about these over the last few weeks, I’d love to get my hands on one

And I’m assuming anywhere else that microsoft operates (the entire world) would be the same too, no? I don’t know why this rhetoric would be specific to the EU.