I install the minimal version and go from there.

you really can’t pay people enough to watch child abuse

I wonder what the package was, besides the salary. And the hiring requirements.

law enforcement shows up and threatens them

They didn't threaten the company, they threatened an employee... at their home... kinda different.

No! C is legacy! No one uses it anymore! It's too hard!

/s

What really gets to me is that during those two pandemic years the tech industry didn't stop because, wait for it... everybody was working remote, and now they want to gasslight everyone into RTO with a bunch of bullshit arguments because it's better?

My phone has a camera... i can set photos as wallpapers...

XMPP is still around although there's a constant campaign trying to claim it's gone.

So the EU's been forcing Apple to allow sideloading and Google goes Nah, it'll be fine?

that normies will much sooner switch to Mac.

Rich normies.

I'd focus on enforcing standards and interoperability first, in a serious an highly punitive fashion for offenders.

If you can read/write your spreadsheet using any spreadsheet tool or OS you're half-way there and will've severely hampered the old embrace-extend-extinguish (it's still a thing).

Gentoo took the (imo) correct approach by providing users choice as well.

Of course, just what the world needs, more weapons.