Does anyone expect an electric device of any OEM to hold its value after being opened? I think it's crazy it's fetching $3200 on the used market.

People are pretty quick to label you as a liberal or conservative in Canada. It's a way of shutting down discussions on merit.

Agreed. Democracy isn't democratic anymore.

It's quite an interesting action to compete against something that is essentially free and always available. Maybe show a human strength instead of the exact situation companies despise about human employees.

Competition and innovation are the natural state of things... It's the rules and regulations that prevent it. Reduce the barrier to entry, invest in companies and allow the freemarket to decice whom the numerous winners will be.

South Korea has alot of FABs, Japan has some FABs. Europe is part of the tech supply chain and Canada can certainly provide most of the mineral exports.

China has no problem building older FABs because they were allowed to use out tech until a few years ago. They can't currently get passed 7nm. Which isn't a problem now but in a year or two they won't have FABs that are remotely close. They will likely figure it out eventually but they will be a decade behind and still not have the FAB to mass produce the chips.

I get corporate licensing and security etc, but for 98% of us out here, you can buy a fairly modern Beelink mini PC with 8GB of ram, 512 GB SSd and a quad or better core laptop chip for less than $195 USD and have a on premise computer that can actually still access cloud desktops and do more.

Been using and supporting Emby for years - it is a great product. I have tried Jellyfin and switched back to emby as it was more reliable and had better support for newer transcoding hardware, however I am sure it's improved and just as good today.

Precisely. Although I'd still would like to understand the reasoning more... Just to make sure we aren't walking into fire here.

They have definitely tangibly improved the quality and relevance of users delivered to their customers. There is less spam and the quality rank of truly relevant businesses has improved.

Google's customer is not the end user of Google. It is an advertising business and combating spam and improving relevancy improves the marketing ability for businesses wishing to advertise, increasing clicks and reducing costs per click and improving the quality of the user delivered to the advertiser. This is the business of Google Search, or Bing, or DuckDuckGo, or Brave.

I have high level contacts at Google and from my understanding from conversations, Google releases improvements to its search engines algorithms and ranking logic several times per day and then a major update several times a year. If the US tries to argue this, I believe Google will be able to flood them with incremental changes which they will have a significant burden to prove each and every one of them is insignificant, which is like true for the vast majority of the updates but, there will be dozens per year that offer so level of significant improvement in some tangible area which will destroy this argument. The burden of proof is on the accuser and simply, they will have to spend millions to just get up to speed with the rate at which Google Search is tangibly improved over time. Notably, since starting to work with SEO and SEM 15 years ago, there has been major updates and shifts in strategyever two to three years to combat different practices and improve the tangible quality of the results for end users.

I'm pretty sure even house league baseball, house league soccer, house league basketball has standard equipment requirements. And no you don't need to use a console to have a even playing field. You need a verifiable chain of equipment to prevent cheating. Verifiable controllers is a bigger step than requiring consoles could accomplish and could be done on any device with driver support - even Linux. There are many proper ways to implement anticheat and this is already done on PC for online multiplayer

It would set Linux back tremendously if RHEL and red hat died. Roughly 60% of the patches across all distros origininate in RHEL/Fedora/Centos. Canonical is to busy playing with snaps and SUSE doesn't contribute nearly enough and take alot of RHEL already. There aren't many more companies with vested interest in Linux with cash flow to fill the gap in a open manner.