Not the economy, but “the economy”, i.e. corporate profits.

I understand wanting to unload one. Not so much the part where someone pays to be the recipient.

Yeah but they misspelled it, so they lose some points there.

They had to break at least two at the same time.

And I’ve never shot anyone.

I see you’ve never taken a gun safety class. There are rules you’re supposed to follow to prevent exactly this kind of shit. Responsible gun owners are absolutely anal about following those rules. And they’re really simple rules. Here’s the version from gunpro.com:

1. Treat all guns as if they are always loaded.
2. Never let the muzzle point at anything that you are not willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have made the decision to shoot.
4. Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

The same rule applies to whenever they sell the IP to. Whoever buys the IP should be legally obligated to continue the experiment as a condition of buying it. The alternative—putting the IP in the public domain—doesn’t do a lot for people who need active, ongoing support for a medical device, implanted in their body. I’d make a separate, stricter rule for that case. I don’t have a clear idea what that rule should be, though, because we can’t require a medical experiment to continue indefinitely if we want anyone to develop new medical devices.

Companies that aren’t actively using their IP should be forced to license it to someone who will, or put it in the public domain.

Assuming they need a server at all (and that’s a big if), the computer time needed to handle a crib should be basically nothing. $1 a year would be an exorbitant charge.

Chrome and Chromium are 99.9% the same. Source: I used to be a Chrome developer at Google.

It does have to be free. It’s open source software. If they tried to charge money for Chrome, people would just use Chromium or one of the other browsers based on it.

I’ve been using it for the last few months, and while it doesn’t offer as many “nice to have” features as Google (like automatically finding mask results need in where you are), the core functionality works great, and the lack of ads is refreshing.

Chrome doesn’t make any money. How is it supposed to support itself as a separate company?

No, this is the rich trying to rest the middle class.

“Private taxation” is just price gouging.

Socialism? Where’d you find a dictionary of right-wing lies?

Say it with me: Elon Musk is a Nazi.

He bought Twitter so he could give a platform to literal Nazis and kick off anyone he deems too far to the left. You can tell because that’s precisely what he did after buying it. Only the most gullible people ever thought his actions were about free speech for anyone but the far right.

And yet you can still buy phones with headphone jacks. Because there is demand for them. The reason you didn’t see many is because the demand is a lot less than what Lemmy users would have you believe.

I found 8 brands of DVD±R discs—none of them Sony—before I stopped counting. If you think one company stopping production is going to stop people from using physical media, or that demand hasn’t been falling for years, YOU are the one who’s badly out of touch.

Let me spell it out for you: as long as there is demand, someone will find a way to make money filling it. No company, no matter how evil it is, can remove a product category from the market just by leaving the market. Suggesting that a company choosing to stop making a commodity product is an attempt to prevent you from having access to said product is nonsense no matter what company and product you’re talking about, because such a plan could never work.

Or… they’re stopping production because there’s very little demand. Nah, that can’t be it.

Damn, that’s some Qanon-level shit.