I saw One Battle After Another in the Cinema. It’s still how movies are delivered for now.
I accept that the future of “cinema” is second screen content we can play in the background while looking at our phones, or maybe it’s 30 second tiktocks of people reacting to someone else’s 30 second tiktocks. I’m not sure any of us should rush to embrace it.
Enshitification is our future, we’ve become lab rats with a dopamine button, but it’s not something we should be happy about.
Not as large but still growing.
There’s no one thing. I’m sure everyone is trying to game regulations.
But, I’d wager a Honda Civic is not getting a truck exceptions. Yet a 2025 Honda Civic is 20% wider and 25% longer than a 1978. The weight has gone from 800 kilos to over 1400.
Crumple zones need space to crumple into. Side curtain airbags require bulkier pillars. Impact beams need space making bodies wider. Instead of a sheet metal box on a chassis we have a frame reinforcing the entire cabin. We need room for crushable hood braces and plastic engine shrouds for when we hit pedestrians. It’s all good stuff, but you have to buy an inch or two for this, an inch or two for that…
Eventually a 2025 Honda Civic is both longer and wider than a 1990 Toyota Hilux pickup.
American safety standards have led to an insane game of cat an mouse wherein I need my car to be bigger to keep me safe. But my bigger car is more dangerous to you. So you need a bigger car to protect yourself from my dangerously large car. But now I need a bigger car to protect me from your giant car.
And 30 years later everyone is driving around a 60 thousand dollar crumple zone so tall it can’t see pedestrians over the hood and needs a 6 liter engine just to move.
Same for child seats. Planning on having 3 kids under 10? Better plan on a truck or van with a 3rd row, because somehow, you can’t fit seats 3 small children in the back seat of a family sedan or crossover.
Or the feral cats? Does humanity deciding to cull a species not perfectly fit that model as you imagine it?
The Venn diagram of privacy focused and paranoid has a good bit of overlap.
There will always be some percentage of users that Linux just isn’t for, and some users that fall in love.
In my opinion the motivations that convince them to try Linux are irrelevant. What’s important is that the general trend is more users sticking with it.
IMO I couldn’t care less if people dual boot, we’re still have a use case for Windows. I have a Windows machine myself.
Well that’s kind of what I’m getting at. How many times does that happen before everybody just goes back to using GPL, MIT, etc…
I’m all for ethical licensing, and defensive licensing, but we’ll likely end up with an unmanageable soup of various licenses that everyone is nervous about misinterpreting. We lose efficacy and everyone will just default back to the same handful of licenses we’re currently using.
I think unless it was a small number of crystal clear alternative licenses with broadly agreeable terms, we’d get chaos, followed by complacency.
Doesn’t everyone?