As someone who helps out people with their liberation from proprietary software (read: I install Linux distro's on their laptops and PC's and give them a nice headstart by teaching them the basics and essentials of the respective distro's), I am seeing a new trend: the SaaS (Software as a Service) doesn't go down as good as Microsoft (and Apple) want. Most of the people realise, finally, that in principle their machine is not theirs anymore in that way. To be more specific: according to Microsoft Windows User Agreement (since the haydays of Windows 95) it never was, but now it is more obvious with cloud services. It has become a more important reason to switch for people.

Another big reason is simple economics: people do not want (or can't) pay for all the online services and also, people want to use their machines for longer than anticipated by hardware producers and accountants. "Every three years buying new equipment is good for the books" is a long time mantra, which I always found a bit peculiar, because writing things off of your taxes is letting society pay for your costs as company. It is also far from durable or environmentally responsible. Hardware producers design their products also with obsolesence in mind, which is nice for their coffers, but not for the environment and/or the budgets of users.

And about the article itself: I understand the reasoning behind seeing Android and Chrome OS as a Linux version, but it needs to be nuanced: only the kernels of both OS's are originating from Linux kernels and that's about it. Most of the software that runs on it is proprietary and has hardly anything to do with Linux or Open Source. For the rest it was a nice read and I see articles about Year of the Desktop as a nice utopian tradition. Utopian, because in this neoliberal world of commercialising everything I do not see Linux distro's rule the consumer world. It already does so in the back end of it all: as far as I know, all the fastest supercomputers run some version/distro of Linux and pretty much the entire internet runs on it. :-)

I submit to Comcast that this excuse is too unbelievable, and they can get rekt.

Other things Comcast thinks is too hard:

Having affordable services

Giving the customers what they want

Building any decent infrastructure

Handling billing disputes equitably

Having reliable service

Providing internet speeds above that of a russet potato

Not being a monopoly in the areas it serves

allowing users to easily cancel their services

https://worldjournalpost.com/internet/chatgpt...ng-the-innate-nature-of-language-acquisition/

New link that works. They changed it for some reason

Stealing news? Utter rubbish. Newspapers have been killed by the internet. Newspapers have always been primarily vehicles that sell ads with a little news thrown in to get you to buy them. Bundling just doesn't work in the internet age. What is killing newspapers is internet advertising. Many companies publishing directly. Getting the government to tax the organisations sending readers to news sites could well end up making the situation of news sites worse.

Of course they do,so they will have yet another revenue stream based on their buggy software. Do you really think the world wants Microsoft sucking up their money?

Why do you think robotics and the internet itself and NASA all run on Linux?

No it doesn't,it's just told us it does for years to assure it makes endless money. Just cause we see an ad does not mean we will do what it commands. I started muting ads as a child when I realized how they deceived the general public with their bs. Ads do not influence everything we do,we just are not that stupid..Ok,some of us are that stupid,but not everyone. The below quote is yet another big lie rammed down our throats anytime we have the gonads to disagree with them. We are not robots they can control and manipulate,but they never stop trying. I do not watch advertisements cause I hate them with a passion. The:"You must buy this or you will never be as happy as the people in our ad" is such a crockI don't buy fast food,junk foodor big name products cause I don't want them. My latest acquisition was a gargoyle gecko and his enclosure and powdered food was sold to me by the family owned pet shop,not by some glossy ad on tv or the Internet. I also use an ad blocker. Anyway,this actually turned into a very good look at the vile ad industry and capitalistisim in general. I enjoyed it.

The advertising industry is a global juggernaut that influences everything we do, up to and including our behavior, opinions, preferences, and even our thoughts.

Delta Air Lines is a major airline, and they are known to offer in-flight entertainment and connectivity options to their passengers. However, the specifics of their current in-flight internet service, such as its stability, availability, and cost, might have changed since my training data. I recommend checking Delta's official website or contacting them directly for the most up-to-date information.

People have lied on the internet since the internet was invented (by Al Gore, no less). For the last decade or so, big media and big tech became the arbiters of "truth" and lazy thinkers ate it up. Now, they don't want to question what they've been told, so they seek avoidance.

Discussions between people with different opinions used to be a common thing. Now they run away with their fingers in their ears.

I never thought of the internet as a duplicate.

I never thought of the internet as a duplicate.

The usual leeches want to turn the internet into their personal,never ending mainline of control and endless money.

On my webserver I can see all IP-addresses that visit my site, including an approximation of the location of those addresses. It's standard, without cookies. Also: it is visible what browsers the visitors use, with the equipment (tablet, phone, desktop) and their respective operating systems. Still without cookies.
When someone uses the internet, they hardly know what kind of telemetry their software and hardware hands out and I can only imagine that it can be pretty easy, with the help of cookies, scripts and trackers, to do whatever you like with that information.

Or donate to the people who develope all that open source software like VLC, Blender, KDE, Gnome or the EFF or even W3C, since the foundations of the internet (HTML, PHP, MySQL, Javascript) are all readable for everyone and is open for everyone to learn and use as see fit - for free). W3C are the ones who take care of standards, which is good for programmers and users alike. When there are no standards, everything goes wrong, check videoformats for streaming or interactive design (Flash, anyone?). Plugins for using the internet is a form of pushiness for capital gain and exclusion.

I have rules of engagement with the internet. I do not put pictures of myself,or anyone I know OL. Never have,never will,so no " sensitive images" from me cause I'm not that stupid.

I don't block "content",I block ads. Years ago,ad mongers had the chance to play nice on the internet and refused to do so...My blocking them is the end result. The advertising industry wants to remove your freedom to control your own computer & they forget, It's an internet browser, not an internet billboard.

I think the design of the site is crappy as hell, as in: the UI sucks ass and didn't get better throughout the years. And the more important data-mining became, the more flaws appeared. The site is ridden with malicious scripts that abuse your system or smartphone and I think that all in all the whole concept of it is intrusive, abusive and purposely made to either influence society in a propaganda way and/or to divide people. It's the sewer of the internet.

Note that Nielsen’s comparisons here include only programming viewed on TVs and internet-connected TVs — it doesn’t account for mobile or web streaming.

That's odd. Streaming is streaming.

I'm all for technological progress and I think that the current internet is just the tip of the iceberg of what has yet to come. I also think that a decentralized internet is the answer to a corporate claim of the networks, because at the moment we are being pushed to a conglomerate blob of commerce, which stifles or even stops progression. New or newer ideas get bought up and end in a drawer or, at most, gets separated and re-assembled in some sort of digital Frankenstein with the sole purpose to generate profit.

The early internet had succes because of its' openess and somewhat unregulated creation of content. It challenged common people to be creative within the constraints of coding languages, bandwidth and processing power. It is the same with a metaverse, although the constraints are now determined by several companies that have no openess in mind, let alone an unregulated form of creativity. The main goal is commerce, not expression or a drive to progression.

The biggest advancements of a metaverse will be when quantum-technology is better developed and commonly available or even open sourced, like HTML, PHP, MySQL are open source and freely to use for everyone. Again, it's an idea, but combine quantum-technology with decentralisation and open source and the worms are out of the can, which is my hope (or electric dream?). It's from chaos and somewhat unorganized developments that progress arises, not from overly controlled (and sucked dry to the bone for commerce) "enhancements".

Back to my coffee and cigarette. And later on easel, because, for now, the only metaverse I will know is made with paint, canvas and loud music. :-)

Up to today my website still has to use scripts to accomodate Internet Explorer users, because the browser renders pages way different than other browsers. That was the case from the beginning since I began dabbling in web design (somewhere 1995), eventhough there was and is a very good set of standards set by the W3C, Internet Explorer always seem to wreck cool designs and functionality, made according to those standards.

In the statistics of my webserver I hardly see any Explorer users, so I could actually delete all that scripting to "help" Explorer users? Or should I keep it for that absolute minority?

I am just as pleased as the author of the nice and good article that this piece of shit software will be gone (for good?).

And with this, whatever anonymity you may have left on the internet will be gone.

Good for implementing social credit scores, which I think is the goal here, not your convenience.

Isn't the internet always social and depending on interaction? What's not to like about social media are monopolies of the keyplayers, I think. And I question, for years, the amount of users those keyplayers announce they have. More users mean more advertisement income and reason enough to add a little spice to the actual numbers. The longer I am not using Instagram, Facebook and so on, the more I RE-discover the actual internet with a lot of "substitutes" to the mainstream outlets. And good heavens, there are actual sites that function and blossom without any algorithms or other beatmakers. ;-) Even way better technologies, as in peer-to-peer distributed sites and content or, hold on for this one, actual ad free websites that make a profit by paying their users and taking their (fair) share of the tokens that are traded (Odysee).

The big ass monopolies are on their way down, I guess, just by seeing how fast decentralisation is starting to get a grip on the internet. More and more tools (Signal) and sites like Pixelfed or Mastodon are popping up and growing really quickly. I like that a lot. It's never gonna be like "the old days" again, but there's definitely a renewed and really improved internet for all on its' way. From that point of view, and experience, Musk has made his worst investment to date by buying Twitter (with borrowed money and other forms of debt and by selling some of his shares of the companies he "founded" (read: bought out)).

Like with MySpace and others that are long gone, the current dominant players will deminish if they do not get a hold of that decentralisation and other technological developments, which they will be hesitant towards, since that also means a loss of power, besides income. It's like with banks versus crypto and trading apps: old versus new. And guess what? Old is already going down, kicking and screaming. But this will not go over really peacefully, we're talking about a lot of money and power here that is shifting towards new players , innovators (real ones) and visionaires that do not copycat old shit and call it theirs (I see you Microsoft and Apple). :-)

Yeah,large swaths of the Internet are such a wasteland. I liked it way better before social media.

It's definetely an overload, yes. I visit regularly several websites for my binge-watch-cravings and they offer really a lot of series and films from all providers. The majority of the content quality correlates to the quality of the majority of the regular internet and is slightly better than the average social media outlet.
That being said, once every few weeks I play a game of chicken with a movie which I select by searching on numerical reviews. One out of five stars, less than 4 out of 10, you get the idea. The chicken part is about how long I can stand the movie until I turn it off, because of several things like acting quality, special effects, soundtrack, et cetera.

Most Linux distro's can be installed when there's no internet-connection available. :-)

#iseemyselfoutbye

Brave browser + uBlock Origin = sexy internet. :-)