Trump purging his best staff like Stalin in 1938.

Stop connecting to My connection. Connect to your own.

Why does the browser need to open?

Serious answer:

I believe many office environments have customer service reps using only web apps. They don’t run an .exe, they go to a webpage that has the corporate web apps.

Personally I had to spend a lot time getting my raspberry PI to autoload Firefox at boot because I have a custom html home automation panel. A distro that had the option of “boot to web page” at start up would have saved me an hour of googling.

but actively doing things to make other browsers difficult to download and use on their operating system.

That is absolutely not true. I was President of a mid sized ISP at the time. We shipped both IE and Netscape on CD for consumers to pick which they wanted to install.

The bundling was a problem because of their already pre existing dominant market position.

Apple is not declared a monopolist because they do not own and control chrome

Microsoft did not own and control Netscape’s rendering engine which was the really dominant market player. Apple uses their market position to make Safari the majority web browser in the US. (phones outnumber home pc’s and Apple has over 50% marketshare.)

go ahead and contact epic’s legal department.

I don’t give a fuck about Epic. Steam is Walmart and Epic is Kmart.

It’s to stop someone with rights to generate keys

If it was only about developers then consumers could have the right to resell their game at whatever price they wanted.

EU countries wouldn’t have to sue Steam for consumer rights:

https://blog.igv.com/steam-freedom-equality-and-game-resale-steam-vs-france/

It was restricting the web browser market.

If bundling a web browser is an uncompetitive act that requires government intervention then Apple, Google (Android), and commercial Linux distros would also be sued by the government. Microsoft was sued, not for the action in isolation but because of their monopoly position. They didn’t get their monopoly from bunding a web browser. They already had a monopoly. People overwhelmingly chose Windows because it was the best. At the time Linux didn’t have consumer friendly distros and MacOS was still cooperatively multitasked like Windows 1.0 from 1982.

Steam’s monopoly destroyed ownership of games. You used to buy a game at Egghead, and when you were done playing, you could sell it for whatever the free market said it was worth.

Steam’s monopoly also means you can’t open a small game store- they wiped out those businesses just like Walmart. Vendors deal with Walmart because a tiny profit of being in every Walmart is better than a large profit from a few stores exactly like vendors sell on Steam.

Artemis is an ai fake. You can tell by the pixels that Maisy Williams wasn’t watching the launch like that.

The 1969 moon landing was real because we didn’t have the technology to fake it.

Remote control for the US Robotic Soccer Sports Team.

(I used to have shelves of those wired into Portmasters when starting my ISP. After replacing the analog modems with pri digital modems we took the shelving outside and gave it the Office Space treatment.)

My home came with one of those. I ripped it out and replaced it with a touchscreen powered by a pi running custom html for a lcars interface for home security and music. I never got around to re wiring the intercom part. It’s on my list.

Probably insider corruption. Like the corporate sales agent or podcast employee is somehow related through friendship or blood to someone at openai.

Microsoft purposely hindering the ability for competing software,

Nope. MS was declared a monopoly because of marketshare and therefore had to add support for competing software.

Offering a better service that attracted customers.

Monopoly is from marketshare. How it is obtained doesn’t matter. Once you are the biggest company you need to have restrictions placed on you so that smaller companies have a chance to compete.

It only applies to steam keys.

A steam key is the receipt that you paid for the game. It is ridiculous that companies get to skirt laws by saying, “It’s on a computer.”

Imagine you buy a car. Years later you go to resell it for less and the manufacture claims you can’t because the sales receipt that proves you are the legitimate owner is a “Steam Cars Inc key” and therefore all existing laws do not apply.

monopoly laws they violate

A monopoly is holding a large marketshare. It is a label determined by courts. That the marketshare is from consumers picking the product is irrelevant to being declared a monopoly.

In the late 90’s Windows was the overwhelming market leader for OS’s because the alternatives weren’t good. Linux didn’t have good consumer focused distros and was therefore used on servers. MacOS at the time was still cooperatively multitasked like Windows 1.0 from almost 20 years earlier. So Microsoft was declared a monopoly and had restrictions placed on what it could do despite all other competitors already doing what Microsoft did (like including a web browser). That’s why years later Apple was able to make Safari the ONLY web browser (all “alternatives” were just reskins of Safari) whereas Microsoft was forced to include support so that you could switch the default web browser.

Now I really want to know what it said without digging through the html.

Both sides bad. Amirite?

I noped out of arch during setup. It expected me to partition the drive for swap/os/usr. It’s not 1996, I’m not doing that today.

Oh wait, it was all posturing and nobody’s willing to actually do that.

It’s posturing because the alternative is more French proles dead. You complain about proles dying yet are mad for Macron not racing to get French proles killed.

It would have blown Orwell’s mind that people would excitedly pay for spying devices and carefully place them in every room for maximum effectiveness.