While I appreciate the dedication, I am looking for something more akin to firefox 4.0 levels of functionality and resources usage.

Back when your browser used around 512mb of RAM when you had 40 tabs open.

Now if only browsers can become that lightweight again.

I think they are just using AI to put a positive spin on it. They know hard times are ahead and they need to reduce headcounts to preserve cash.

Taking the pot off the stove, throwing away and starting again, then repeating it many times is not giving it time to cook

The free option is not sustainable and does not reward the correct customer/business relationship.

I’m with you, paying is better than supporting the Ad business.

I just wish YouTube did not treat paying customers like criminals with the app based restrictions.

Some arch+hyprland would be awesome on even this hardware.

As someone allergic to horsehair, this explains a lot.

Drugs cooked his brain.

Germany and Italy learn from their mistakes. The US keeps repeating them more than any other country (except for Argentina)

But those are Americans.

Would not say equally shitty, otherwise they won’t have popular support they do.

You are correct however that they are not pro consumer.

They are just a smarter, wiser business with a sustainable business model that understands the importance of consumer trust.

It’s a dire chihuahua

Well the electromagnetic forces in your bones are no match for the accumulated energy of a few seconds of gravity.

Say that to gravity when you start even 5m above the ground.

Is that a standard Carlos, or an imperial Carlos?

Just a bit of South African context. In South Africa, in order to get a telcoms licence, you have to comply with BB-BEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment) requirements. Basically, you have to sell 30% (soon to be 51%) of your company to a local black owner. This is in addition to DEI requirements for employment.

For most businesses, these requirements are not mandatory to exist or operate, but gives you a bidding advantage for government contracts. For example, Microsoft, amazon and Temu can operate here, because they dont need any special licences. But for some sectors, companies need to aquire a license.

It can be argued that such legislation was necessary to incentivise business to diversify their employment and ownership to those previously excluded.

BUT, the way it is implemented, there is a huge emphasis on black ownership for various sectors. What will basically happen is a business needs to acquire a license from a government department. These licenses would only be granted if you give ownership of your company to the “appropriate” investor. Invariably someone connected to the government. They determine the price and basically get gifted portions of companies.

So what has basically happened is that this legislation only effective portion these days, is to enrich the politically connected.

So basically Elon is not wanting to pay the bribes necessary to get the required license to operate.

I Hate the buffoon, but on this he is correct.

Intel started running into trouble 15 years ago when they appointed CFO leadership as CEOs. They eroded 20 years of engineering leadership for the sake of “stakeholder value”. They also destroyed the company culture that made them successful and replaced it with MBA corporate BS.

You can’t rebuild that overnight. You basically need to start over.