Tech workers have only resisted unions because employment has mostly been easy to find in the industry (depending on location and sector). They also have an innate libertarian bent in the culture that would resist unions. But with all the company consolidation and layoffs, it's hard to tech workers aren't being taken advantage of in most places.

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that hardware costs being driven up dramatically has made it more difficult for their sponsors to provide infrastructure to the project for free.

Simple Firefox is perfectly fine.

Ungoogled Chromium is my standby for the instances when a Blink browser is needed, though it's not entirely simple to set up.

Excellent! Hoping for Jolla someday too!

They are putting them in Alaska (the governor is even working to attract more), but sparsely populated Alaska doesn't currently have the energy infrastructure to support a major build-out of data centers there.

On a hot day, cool the car down before you get in. Same for the inverse of wanting to heat the car up before you get in when it's super cold.

OpenOffice has been more or less dead for a decade. LibreOffice was its successor.

That would heavily depend on whether a fork splits systemd's developers off. Controversial changes have spilt FOSS development teams before. The entire point of forks is to allow taking projects in different philosophical or technical directions.

That's the son's company (Skydance). Maybe Larry could just ask him for a loan I guess.

My understanding is that Claude is particularly geared towards being a tool for people to use rather than a human replacement. That's why they had that whole spat with the Pentagon about a human needing to be in the loop.

Possibly at a base level, but not well. Most US carriers have a white list of devices certified to use their networks.

The xmpp server also seems to be out of date. Conversations can't connect to it.