I mean, the reality is that they’ve mostly just cannibalised the conservative voter base.

The election results show that they’re not exactly sweeping labor strongholds, a lot of labor’s losses coming from SNP, the greens, lib dems and Plaid Cymru. Which is to say, that the voters aren’t pivoting to the right, they’re just pivoting away from labor.

If anything, it seems like media efforts to shove the voter base to the right, and labor’s effort to chase the media narrative, has just driven traditional conservative voters insane, while making left wing voters pissed at labor for moving so far rightwards.

“Solves 40% of customer issues”

Or, 40% of users give up after being stonewalled by a bot.

It’s not just Reddit, so many companies try and shunt you off a mobile web page and on to their app, despite many apps being little more than a pre loaded mobile web pages.

Why? Because users can modify how they interact with a web page, they can install extensions that modify how the code from the website is run, or just deny web pages access to some other process. There is very little a company can do about that, they have no control on how the user chooses to run the page. But… with an app, users can’t modify how the program is run. No plug ins, no web extensions, no choosing not to run some part of it, just the software as distributed by the company. Meaning full fat ads and complete access to any information the OS will let them have, way easier to make money on users that way.

Technically, it’s possible to alter any program, but it’s very hard if don’t have the source code, and it’s illegal to do so in many cases thanks to section 1201 of the DMCA, especially if you try and distribute that modification or tell others how to do it. Which is dumb, it’s your computer/phone, they shouldn’t get to tell you what code you can and can not run on it, they shouldn’t be able to force you to run code on it you don’t want to.

Rare earths are not actually that rare, they’re just… messy to extract. They require a ton of processing, infrastructure and create a lot of byproducts that cannot just be dumped, the byproducts need to be neutralized and disposed of properly. Very expensive, not very large margins.

Rare earths are important to making certain things, but, oil’s products are key for running things. You can go a few years without replacing a phone, you don’t get oil for a week and your transportation infrastructure ceases running.

Same exact computer, they just don’t charge you for the windows license. So it’s a bit cheaper.

It is very private, by nature of it recording so little and leaving so little trace. Which is what was being asked about, not strictly speaking security.

Most distros don’t collect any data by default.

Basically any distro not built and maintained by a company will be a thousand times more private than Mac or windows. Arch and Debian are both good in that regard, most distros are derived from those. There is also Fedora which is a community project, but it’s very heavily involved with Red Hat inc who is owned by IBM. I’ve never heard about any privacy issues there, but, it’s worth keeping in mind.

If you want something super secure and locked down in regards to privacy, there is Tails which has a lot of neat tricks and tor built in. Not sure I’d recommend it as a daily driver but it’s got it’s use cases.

*75% of code was written by people who were required to have an AI plug in installed.

Probably also having their usage tracked.

Also have had their work loads increased and their deadlines shortened.

And if they don’t hit the metrics and meet the shorter deadlines… they get fired.

I’m sure that’s a recipe for functional, well tested, efficient, and secure software. Definitely not creating a shit ton of technical debt.

It’s always funny to me when people are like “yah we’ll just grow food using hydroponics and grow lights powered by a diesel generator.”

Like, honey, you could store a decade of food in the volume of space needed to store enough fuel to run those grow lights through one harvest. Like, the conversion rate of fuel to electricity, to light, to biomass is … pathetically tiny.

Comparing brave and fire fox is like comparing librewolf and chrome. When people suggest using a privacy browser other than brave, they’re not saying “just use fire fox”.