Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "TechAltar" channel.

I think the real reason they cracked down on Jack Ma is that they didn't want a space alien telling them what to do.
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At least 100 antitrust lawsuits should have already been filed against numerous corporations, some multiple times over, and yet 0 have been in the past 20 years. How did you still have faith in the regulations let alone those administering them?
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@JAN0L You missed the /s at the end, people might take this seriously.
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And because they did, others also removed the charger. Don't have one compatible with the new device? You're screwed.
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It took me 0 seconds to get the advertising ID on my system. I don't have one. I use Linux, free, open source, secure and private.
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I've never bought a new car. Never will.
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@austinhernandez2716 Non-compliance with standards. Watch Louis Rossmann's video where he tries three different devices with three different chargers with limited success. Although, Samsung may have the best chargers if his results are anything to go by.
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@Mönch WINE, Proton and several other environments exist that allow me to run all the Windows software I want, and the free and open source alternatives to the walled garden apps you use are far better and completely portable to Windows or Mac. So it's not a complex, it's just fact.
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@Samosayummyyay And so your argument is what? That people in one country typically lease? Generally, businesses will lease if it's more cost effective, but not all, not even a third will. Most businesses will outright buy, and sure, new cars, but they'll keep using them for years, potentially decades depending on the business. Individuals for the most part buy used.
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@kiwi2035 Let's see how that plays out before we get too excited. Follow through isn't a leftist's strong suit. Nor are adequate punishments for criminals.
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Yeah, that's the attitude to have. Been using it for around 25 years now and it's nice that finally people are wising up to Microsoft and Apple's evil and moving towards a platform which allows them to do what they want with their own devices.
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Why would you want to save Windows? It's always been garbage and that it's getting worse and more people are jumping ship is a good thing, but sadly they're mostly morons that go towards shiny gadgets that don't allow you to really use your hardware. What's worse though, is the push towards ARM chips which are legitimately inferior to x86 chips in every way except power use. Of course power use matters for portable applications, but I spend my day at a desktop that I expect to be responsive, and the more I have to wait on something to finish loading or for source to compile, the longer I'll be using the computer for and thus eliminating any power savings. Ultimately, I wish more people, but especially YouTubers, would promote Linux and at the very least try to push people towards the superior platform.
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@Muzikman127 I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm not calling antitrust law leftist. I'm calling the regulators who don't enforce the law leftist.
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@the_aurora You know this yet still brag about being able to find the advertising ID? Okay, that's some serious copium right there.
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Unfortunately, framing it as monetary greed will not win this fight. It's not even what they really want. What they want is control, over you, over me, over everything and everyone. People need to realize what the fight is really about, and if they can't realize it on their own they need to be pushed head first into it. Only once enough people see the truth can we win this fight.
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@Michaah Fine, if you're not saying you'd force people to do your bidding, then sure, add infrastructure to enable all methods of transportation. But don't discount those who are unable to bike, there are more than you think and they shouldn't be ignored just because they're not as capable as you or I.
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@thebacheafghan Actually, since they keep setting the standards that other manufacturers go by, your options are, don't have a cell phone, or buy one that's just like Apple's anyway.
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I hate Windows, and I'll never buy an XBox myself, but to call it a failure is to lie. They still make billions of dollars selling the consoles and billions more selling the games.
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@MrBahjatt I think you're reading the wrong things into their actions. It's not that they don't care about Windows, because they likely never did, but rather it was a means to an end. Basically it's a solved problem at this point as Windows has the majority of the market share on desktops and has had for at least 30 years now. The government, whose job it is to breakup monopolies, has basically given them a free pass, and they can do whatever they want and have the money and freedom from governmental interference to do so.
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@MrBahjatt At this point I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. They don't need to do R&D because it's already been done. The Windows Phone failed because it sucked and people already had alternatives that were better. People look at the two devices, a phone versus a computer, as completely opposite paradigms, even if they're both computers, just that one has peripherals built-in for phone functionality. People who game will always need the niche OS for gaming that is Windows, and people who know nothing about computers will always use it due to both the monopoly forcing it on them with pre-builts and their inability to change things. If Microsoft ever decides to pivot their business model, they'll succeed at that as with everything else because of their monopoly. As it stands now, they make a boatload from games, and that device is still a computer and still runs a version of Windows. Like I said, a means to an end.
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This was a real bad take Marton. You completely misconstrue useless data as being useful to the calculation and you average things wrong. You also misunderstand taxes and the cost of infrastructure. For one, a parking space isn't being maintained the same way a regularly driven road is. You're not going to have thousands of cars driving over that parking space day after day until it has holes in it. A single car will drive on, stay all day and drive off, or in the case of night parking it'll be empty all day and parked on only overnight.
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@toms8812 That's another good point. If people drive their own cars less to instead take the bus, then we'll have more bus traffic which means the roads will require more maintenance. Since cars and their one to four occupants weigh less, the road is damaged more slowly. Not even all the people in a given city can bike to work, and in super cold winters they won't. All the talk of biking just seems like he's pushing for his sponsor.
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@toms8812 Exactly what I was thinking.
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@Michaah Would these be black gloves and brown jacket? Because that's what you sound like. And no, there would be no public health benefit.
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@Michaah Ah okay, so you know what's best for people and thus you will force them to do your bidding and own no cars? Do you really NOT SEE what's wrong with this idea? Are you going to bake people who disagree?
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@Michaah Oh okay, let's address the health point. If people biked to work, assuming they're physically able to do so, it would make them healthier. However, do people care? Do they want you telling them what they should and should not do for their health? Nope, they don't. What's more, if they're not physically able, what are you going to do? Surely you wouldn't suggest getting rid of such people, right? Right!?
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@silak33 The more specialized your job, the tinier the percentage you'll make up of the work force. Of course there are some jobs that are specialized and use open source and thus don't have a close source equivalent.
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@silversolver7809 Sure, and you're telling me that you're not a true believer in the ecosystem you're stuck in and/or refuse to leave? Further, what is it that I'm a true believer in? Freedom? Because I have it, those on Windows and Mac do not. If you're saying you choose the walled garden you're using, then fine, be a lemming, but don't push away knowledge of what's better and prevent others from freeing themselves from prison.
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@silversolver7809 So no rebuttal? Okay. The cliff is right over there.
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@silak33 It's not an argument, there really are jobs where they have to write their own code. Certain government contracts are that way, and the code needs to be audited to be trusted.
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@silversolver7809 In other words, you don't have a valid response. Windows is garbage and it doesn't respect you as, I'd assume, a human. But you can't seem to quit it anyway and you can't seem to put your support behind anything better. You just want to be a troll on the internet. I'd guess you consider yourself a success in that department. Have fun under that bridge.
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@silak33 It's not irrelevant. It's a corollary.
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@silak33 Wrong definition. It's something that naturally flows from or follows it. Your statement that there are jobs which only used closed source was lacking in completeness as one reading it would naturally assume that there are no jobs which only use open source. So the corollary to your statement is that there are in fact jobs which only use open source. Hence why it is relevant.
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@silak33 Nuanced in such a way as to attempt giving yourself an out for the obvious intent and meaning behind what you're saying. So yeah, your comment isn't good. And the free and open source alternatives are better, not just because they often function better, but also because if they don't function to your liking you can change them. What's more is that the file formats they use aren't closed so you can take your work somewhere else if they're not to your liking. Your whole argument seems to be that you dislike having your intent sussed out for what it really is, apologism for closed source.
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@silak33 I'm not assuming anything about someone who might be using a program to create files. Generally that's what most software that most people complain about is doing. Granted firmware often doesn't, but open firmware does also exist. So even if someone isn't using software to create files, they may be using it to read them, and open formats facilitate using whatever firmware you want. I think here you have a misconception about what open source really is. It doesn't mean free as in beer, and it doesn't always mean free as in speech. In fact, look at Unreal Engine for an example of neither. One might be tempted to call it free as in beer if you're doing a tiny project, but once you make money you have to pay for it, and you certainly can't redistribute your changes under a different license. Further, there are at least hundreds of full time developers, possibly thousands, that are actually paid to contribute to open source, Linus being one of them. Look at companies like Red Hat for inspiration on companies paying to either have open source code written or to offer technical support for use of open source. As to the flight planning software, that's quite the rabbit hole. Obviously you must not be a developer, or you'd at least be able to give it a go extending one of the numerous open source programs. I would never have thought that anyone outside of the government would have a need or desire for such software, but apparently there's a lot. I see that there's even some done by companies that pay to contribute to open source.
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