There’s a lot they could have done, locking down Linux isn’t that hard. Just look at Chrome OS, it’s based on Gentoo, yet it’s locked down completely. All they had.to do is lock the BIOS, enable secure boot and disable root access, and then it’s pretty much a locked system.

Nintendo was super competent with the Switch, their kernel is actually ridiculously secure. I’m pretty sure if Nvidia hadn’t messed up, we would still be scratching our heads with the Switch.

It’s not impossible or even hard to lock down Linux. Just look at Chrome OS, it’s Gentoo based, but with the bootloader locked and root access removed, it is pretty much immutable.

And Chromebooks just use off the shelf parts.

Nothing has changed in that respect.

On iOS, Apple only allows browsers to use Safari’s WebKit. So they all use the same rendering engine, effectively making all iOS browsers Safari clones.

Brave is also built on Chromium and they won’t be adding support for the API.

Apple “privacy first” policy is just the corporate image they want to sell, if they can get away with it without being questioned by the public, they will.

Mozilla is funded by Google, they’re pretty good at just opposing them.

It’s about 10%. Still not a lot.

Bad management mainly. The cofounders fought and one basically expelled the other. And then there’s the bad choices like removing .deb support by default. Also, it’s a bit buggy nowadays.

I still remember fondly when elementary was relevant. It’s been a while.

Will they finally get a taste of their own medicine? I somehow doubt it, but the symbolism is still nice.

Man, I’m glad Sync for Lemmy launched today, I really missed the automatic amp removal from links.