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While it would expand battery life that doesn't mean their intent was genuine. Could be a concern about their phone's image: "100%" looks better than "80%". It sounds like the "you're too stupid to understand" route.

I hope GNU Taler does well in Switzerland. One day I would like to accept payments/donations using Taler ❤️

It's not piracy, it's unauthorised copying. No boats and murder here.

I assume most companies write somewhere in their terms that "lifetime" means effectively "whenever the fuck we want".

If there is a company that uses the word lifetime properly they may be worth a mention.

One man's feature is another man's anti-feature.

Having power over others means there is temptation to use that power for your own gain, and at others' expense. Resisting that all the time is a lot of effort. Best to reduce the amount of power to a more manageable level, and affect fewer people if not resisted.

Hopefully we'll have more compassion in the future and treat criminals like they're in need of help.. not ideal test subjects for a new torture machine.

Who are Oracle's customers?

Freakin' sweet'

You can hide the bookmark bar to save vertical space and then it's just a more organized, forgotten bookmark list. Using a search engine to find the page again is more likely for me than a bookmaker 😅 (if no tab).

Bookmarks are great if I remember what I want is there. Usually bookmarking is like putting a piece of paper in cabinet that I will never open.. A tab is leaving the paper on my desk for me that I will rediscover.

Device lock-in is a symptom of a wider issue: the users are not in control of their computing. Charging for services is fine but a company deciding what you are allowed to do with your own property is unjust.

Change their post to say Microsoft's old phone brand OS instead of desktop Windows and what changes? You don't need to pick an equivalent to highlight a single aspect for comparison when arguing for a position.

Plex is in control of their user's computing in a way Jellyfin isn't. You can remove anti-features from Jellyfin software and even redistribute it. So it's much less likely they would do something like Plex and it even doesn't matter if they did as you can find others to work on it in a way you want. Plex is proprietary software, Jellyfin is software freedom.

That's not the FCC people need, which needs to be able to deal with companies taking advantage of consumers (e.g. putting on illegal stickers that say "warranted void if removed").

If no one discussed the value of software freedom on proprietary platforms then (hopefully) we'd be preaching to the choir here.

Linux has proprietary binary blobs in it. If any part of a software is proprietary then even if most of it is free why wouldn't people call "Linux" proprietary? Libre Linux removes those blobs.

Is there a reason to think all the other companies couldn't start doing it to?

A TV used to be clearly different from a computer monitor. Hopefully monitors resist this for longer but no reason to think this can't happen there.

Rather have a TV from 1999. Hope LG goes under.

Talking about "IP" as if it were a single thing confuses any debate. Copyright is not a patent, which is not a trademark - they do different things.

Software patents actually should be deleted. It is impractical to avoid accidentally infringing as there are multiple ways to describe the same system using totally different technical descriptions. Copyright for software was enough.