Somehow that got me thinking of Roku's Basilisk again. If you don't know that, I'm sorry for mentioning. :) But it's also a cool thought experiment.

She was hired as a contractor by Valve to work on Linux graphics driver related stuff. Valve knows who the experts are. And yes her work is amazing.

• Glass Hammer - I like oxymorons [prog rock]
• Blind Guardian - also kind of an oxymoron [power metal]
• Animals as Leaders - political messaging at its finest? [prog rock/metal]
• Carbon-based Lifeforms - that's us (and our surrounding) [ambient]
• Envy of None - yeah... [not sure about genre]
• Ayreon - sounds cool, is basically a play on words of the creator's name (Arjen Lucassen) [prog rock/metal]
• NoFX - quite fitting for [punk rock]

The app might have better UI/UX because developers have more possibilities with native UI toolkits compared to a webapp running inside a browser. The app can also simply be better made than the website (or have more features), when the developers prioritize the app in that way and leave the website as a second-rate app (they don't need to do that but they might).

However, the app can harvest much more data from you (and your device) than a website can (although a website can also gather quite a bit). Plus, the app can lock you into a specific platform-specific ecosystem. For example if the app requires Google's DRM (Play Services Integrity), then the app will only run on Google-sanctioned Android variants, not anywhere else.

So there's pros and cons. Usually, the cons are more severe. A webapp is overall a bit less privacy invasive and truly works cross-platform and cross-device.

Still needs to drop much more.

Piracy indicates a service problem. That's all.

Yes, unfortunately he already got the ball rolling and others will keep it rolling (see Project 2025, Vance, ...). They needed Dump to be in the position he's in to get it all going, but they don't necessarily need him to keep it going.

It's because that might allow them to monopolize access to information later on. Your future library is called Amazon and it costs you a 100 bucks per month subscription. Plus, they can change the information displayed to you at will, as it all comes from their algorithmic black box.

I'm fairly sure that they know this will eventually happen. Windows pretty much only exists for them to milk their user base further, while they're still "hooked" on it. I'm fairly certain that MS knows that Windows isn't worth long-term investments anymore. So this is the enshittify-and-milk-users phase of the Windows decline. MS already positioned itself so that it doesn't NEED Windows to be successful. They make most of their money with cloud services these days. And they are internally building up Linux knowledge by having created their in-house Azure Linux distribution as well as hiring some prominent Linux ecosystem developers like the systemd author. Plus, they ported .NET and Powershell 7+ to cross-platform. They will have no problems if, say, in 10 years, Windows loses its dominance. In the meantime, the poor Windows users who still use this clownware are fair game.

Plan 9 From Outer Space is the classic worst movie ever made, and that's why it's entertaining.

"current gov allows us to do anything so we don't care anymore because that's cheaper"

Yes, unfortunately it's not an easy situation. Firefox's market share isn't nearly as big as it once was. I think it's in the single digit percentage world-wide. That means it will never be big enough again, which means it is 100% reliant on Google's money. Another weirdness is that Google is supposedly only paying this money so that they can claim they aren't a monopoly because a competitor exists (but only because Google lets them live). Mozilla did see it coming, but you can't really make money appear out of thin air if your projects aren't nearly successful enough anymore. That means stopping Google's payments will not just hurt Mozilla/Firefox (to the point of destruction), but Google/Chrome as well (in comparison, it stings them a little bit). The browser situation is just bad overall.