Historically that’s all true, and good reason to keep an eye on them.

But Proton is very much different than all the previous companies in this space. They’re a non-VC funded private non-profit, with a board of trustees made up of scientists and engineers. The buisness model is funded by subscription, not ad sales. And by design, they themselves have no access to any of their users data.

With all that in place to prevent enshittification, I don’t realy see any rational reason for concern.

I recently discovered ReviOS. I just did a clean re-install of Windows with it. And its been great for the last few days. No dumb bloatware or spyware. Though not so privacy crazy as to break things. Supposedly it’s changes can’t be rolled back with updates due to the techniques they use. We’ll see

Not when it gives you a false sense of security.

I’m asking because you quoted a statement with the phrase hierarchy of kings. But I never used that phrase, so I’m not sure who you’re quoting.

I would say calling anarchy a Political System, is something like calling a blank canvas a painting.
Anarchy is the absence of a system. Once a system is in place, there’s no longer anarchy.

Who are you quoting?
Are you replying to the right comment?

Your privacy is compromised eithor way. That’s the point. You just don’t want it to be so obvious. Like putting a spare key under the welcome mat at your door, that’s a bad idea.

Because people don’t pay attention to signs.
You knowing people can easily see everything you’ve posted, effects your behavior here, far more than any banner you’d also complain about having to click past every time.

Yes. The later makes very clear to everyone, they don’t have any privacy here.
My point is, that’s a good thing.

Oh Wow! This is the first different one! I haven’t seen that since I sent a referral to someone.

In fact I might argue it’s not so much an ad in itself, but a request for you to send someone an ad. It works more like those reminders a lot of sites have. The ones that want you to complete setting up your profile. It’s more that kind of thing than an actual ad.

… Or maybe I clicked the “Don’t show this again” button. I don’t remember.

I’m assuming you’re referring to the US when you say “We literally live in a society governed by the whims most powerful people…” That part is true. But the most powerful people get there, largely by breaking the law, trusting it won’t be enforced; Even when it is, the punishment won’t really matter.

Rule of law got its beginning in the whims of kings deciding that everyone “beneath” them on the social hierarchy should follow their rule or be subject to punishment.

No actually. The “Rule of Law”, replaced the “Rule of The King”. Meaning instead of The King being the ultimate authority, The Law is ultimate authority. Prior to The Law, The King made rules, but those weren’t Laws. You may be making a bit of an equivocation fallacy here.

The rule of law is literally “might makes right”, you either listen to the authority of those at the top of the hierarchy or they will send the state dogs (the police) to force you into obedience.

No That’s the Rule of The King again.
The Rule of The King by the way, is the natural consequence of anarchy.

And none of what you wrote directly disagrees with what I wrote.
You think it does, due in part to the misconception or Rule and Law I just tried to explain.

Laws are a governments attempt to codify it’s peoples aggregate morality into something enforceable. Something more than just an individuals own judgement.

Without laws society would be governed by the whims of the most powerful individuals. The existence of laws themselves, are a moral stance against Might Makes Right. So following the law is a moral rule, of it’s own.

Stealing (taking something that doesn’t belong to you) is immoral. So is failing to give something you don’t need, to someone who will die without it. The times when moral rules come into conflict, are exactly the moments I’m talking about when I say “Don’t let your morality get in the way of doing what’s right.” You can’t follow two contradictory rules. So you have to choose what action, in that individual moment, will lead to the best outcome.

It makes sense to start a PR war over it, trying to fix HDMIs open source policy.

Both HDMI and display port are at their core, data cables. As long as the noise is low enough to maintain bandwidth, it’ll be fine. The cables them selves don’t have any intelligence to determine one feature over another.

Length matters. Off the top of my head I think the spec is for 16’ max. If you’re dasy changing a pair of 10’+ cables on an adapter like that, you might run into problems.

That one I linked does HDMI 2.1
I haven’t seen any that claim 2.2

There are also cables with DisplayPort on one end and HDMI on the other. No seperate adapter

Morally you’re right of course. Everyone should follow laws and procedures. Even when others don’t. No disagreement.

But there is a line from the first Foundation book. I’ll paraphrase: Don’t let your sense of morality stop you from doing the right thing.

When you’re playing against a cheater. You’ll follow the rules every time, and loose every time. Which is fine in a game. Especially when you know someone is inforcing the rules and the cheater will be stopped. But when when actual lives are on the line? And the ref is the one cheating? Going against your moral code to do the right thing, becomes the moral thing to do.

That’s what RobbinHood was all about.

I’m not sure why people are so upset.
It’s a little annoying sure, but don’t these work?

UGMA or UTMA is probably what you’re looking for.
You should talk to a tax pro, to be sure.

It’s a gamble. A literal bet.
The customer is betting they’ll need it. The retailer is betting they won’t. And the retailer sets the price to ensure the odds are on their side.

I don’t gamble at casinos for the same reason.

Fair enough. That’s true.
But I stand by extra warranties being a scam.