It’s all hypothetical. You can’t know if any of the rivals had any chance at gaining significant share of the market. I was using Blackberry when it was still perfectly fine OS, supported by all the important apps (but before everything was an app) and I didn’t know anyone else using it. I think that yes, the deals they made stopped most of the phone manufactures from offering alternative OSes like Geko OS or Lineage OS (before it was called like that) but we can only guess if any of them had any chance of becoming anything else than niche curiosity like Graphene OS today. So you can only really compare this fine with what they are doing now to block Graphene or AOSP. I don’t know if this fine is big enough but I doubt they made trillions thanks to those practices.

Google makes a good, open, affordable phone with 7 years of support. They suck but their phone is not the problem here.

Revolut was the only app I had issues with on Graphene OS. I obviously closed Revolut account and continue using Graphene.

The question is how much money did they make by using Android to block rivals. If using Android helped them make 1bn extra then this fine costs them 3bn and it doesn’t make sense from them to keep doing it. If they made 100bn than obviously they will continue.

I’m guessing about 30 American degrees.

I tried some keypass tools and immediately went back to Vaultwarden. Bitwarden clients work offline until you have to sync, no risks here, but the user experience is way way better. It’s easier to add new accounts, search for them, store additional data like addresses or credit cards and fill them out automatically. I can imagine using keePass for some password I have to access once a week but not for everyday use in my browser and on mobile.

Because of ingredients? I check ingredients first, origin second and price third.

Fuck FIFA, fuck World Cup and fuck Trump.

Yes but turns out they don’t need ideas to siphon all the money into their pockets anymore. The entire system is designed for it now.

How can it do that if I never installed it? Is it looking over my shoulder or something?

But that will only be bad for you if you’re poor.

Just wait for the collapse and buy when the prices are low. As the markets recover the poor will get poorer and the rich will get richer. What is there to be worried about?

Don’t worry everyone, this heatwave will scare people into walking more and eating less beef and the global temperatures will start falling. In a year or two it will be back to normal.

I live close to a highway and it’s just white noise. I can tune it out outside and inside you can’t hear anything. Except for the motorbikes with custom exhausts. You can hear those assholes even inside. And it’s not because of the highway, you can hear the motorbikes all on adjacent streets as well. It’s really crazy to me that some idiots are allowed to add huge amounts of noise to our environment just for fun. Fuck bikers.

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

• Bill Gates

Everyone knows he did.

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

• Bill Gates

Everyone knows he did.

I think what the experts are saying is that bigger cars are more deadly. Being distracted wasn’t always a death sentence.

Because android is more popular in Europe?