They need to announce copilot for clearing off and taking copilot with them.

It’s interesting to see them still kissing Apple backside when Gruber eviscerated Apple and he’s usually very uncritical.

I don’t know that Cook needs to go, but Apple have a big reputation and this has harmed them. They need to fix that somehow.

It must be bad if Gruber is criticising Apple.

Apologies if I came across as cranky, it was meant to be a colorful metaphor for fun, not to be unkind.

Yup. I remember when the iPhone first appeared, my first one was the 3GS and they had so much pre-installed nonsense. It’s very frustrating.

I could open-source defecating into your hands and clapping if you like, but it probably won’t increase demand or convert people, even open source advocates, into true believers if they don’t already like doing it.

And there are absolutely problems with Mullenweg’s stewardship, whatever else you might think of the product.

I agree but I suspect that the problem is that people have different opinions on where the line is on that. Presumably somebody, somewhere actually plays that stupid candy crush thing on Windows for example. It’s probably a ‘valuable service’ for it to be pre installed for them.

I kinda hate them but they’re allowed to like it.

The reärmament drive is scary, we need to see more popular pushback against this.

It might be scary, but not rearming may be scarier. If we’ve seen anything in recent history, it’s that two large countries run by leaders who are bullies care little for what you or I or anyone else wants.

I don’t think all Americans are ignorant / facist / etc. But the last election shows that enough are and enough of the rest are at best apathetic about it…

Just like I don’t think all my fellow Brits are dumb, but Brexit and the rise of our own “poundshop Trump” idiots like Farage shows that enough of my fellow countrymen have the same issues.

And we’re far from alone.

Maybe an even better idea than thinking “some people are dumb” is to work out why there’s such a large number of people out there apparently totally disenfranchised by traditional politics in their own country to the point where extremism becomes attractive. Understanding people probably starts with stopping lumping them together as “dumb”…

I’m one of the many recent immigrants from reddit so I guess that’s my start to alternatives.

I don’t think I can walk away from many of the American tech services I use, but what I have done is reviewed what I use, change what I can and walk away from what I can. I’ve curtailed my optional spend on American companies, goods, and services. We can all do that at least.

We never should have left of course but right now I don’t think we’re ready yet to be an EU member in good standing. Not while people are listening to fuherage here, not while right-wing extremism is on the rise elsewhere in Europe.

That’s valid. I vastly simplified things I know, and there’s lots I don’t understand about it. People want to feel heard and they aren’t getting that from most of the traditional political parties.

I’ve voted both Labour and (in the past) conservative in my time and I think both parties are currently guilty of taking a lot of things and a lot of people for granted who expect better.

I don’t ’get these people’ either. But clearly, popularist politicians everywhere do get them. All their lives they’ve heard promises from the ‘traditional’ left and right wing parties that have made little impact on their daily lives that they can see. They’re still in a terrible job, still hearing the media rattling on about how terrible things are, etc.

So they’re ripe for the taking when someone comes along, tells them that the promises they heard from others are trash, that this new person knows who or what is really to blame, and luckily. It’s a group that’s easy to scapegoat and ‘other’.