You’re completely missing the point here. Yes, being a landlord in some areas can be practically unprofitable… but those landlords aren’t the problem, the greedy/corporate landlords that buy large amounts of housing for the express purpose of turning a profit are.

That said, I know what upkeep on a house is like, and I understand that it’s not for everybody. But, we should have more people owning homes so that they can cultivate the skills necessary to be less reliant on landlords, or we could have the upkeep and maintenance be part of some social program(s), enabling more people to be homeowners.

Just because most of the user base is unaffected, that means that it’s okay to defy the expected convention and change something (which does still affect some of the user base) without any justification other than “because we can”?

You’re not just paying for the hardware, you’re paying for a device with certain functionality and compatibility that you expect to not lose as the result of future updates. Just because corpos think it’s ok to abdicate their responsibility to the consumer by separating hardware and software in the legal contract doesn’t mean that they’re not violating the social contract when the device loses functionality as the result of a software change.

How is that relevant? The main issue is corpos like google deliberately making it difficult for people to do things with their open-source software that they don’t want them to, forcing them to rely on their approved downstream version of the software which has built-in “features” that enable them to sell your data (or use your data to sell ad placements) and squeeze more money out of the product.

To be fair, it’s entirely reasonable to be able to expect that paying money for something should get you the thing you paid for. It’s just the current dystopia that we live in where corpos can’t be satisfied with anything other than the continuous extraction of money from every possible consumer.

Ahh, yeah that makes sense… when I first started HRT I thought some of the stuff I heard he was doing was interesting but I never got caught up in the cult of personality. Well, maybe a little, but I wasn’t a very emotionally healthy person and I’m well past that.

Ego is a hell or a drug and it does sound like he has a lot of it.

I’ve been out of the loop for a while; what problems are there with Dr. Powers?