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Netflix is just getting more expensive and less interesting to me. With all of the content I like being taken off to be hosted on network exclusive streaming platforms that I refuse to pay for - I'll probably eventually just cancel Netflix as well going back to the tried and true method of just buying bluray box-sets of the content I want to watch.

Or piracy.

I think the critical mistake that all these megacorps are making is that people don't actually want to pay for a bazillion streaming services. That's the reason we cut the cord in the first place. People hated being locked into packages and this is basically the same thing - you need the "NBC" package for The Office or the "CBS" package for Star Trek. I can't be bothered to spend all that money.

Netflix was worth it because it made accessing so much content easier than piracy, but with everything getting pushed into a walled garden "package" approach again...piracy will be easier again.

I get HD over the air with less than a dozen chanels, and that's often enough to keep me distracted if I'm not feeling up to playing a videogame or watching a movie.

I'll take your word for it, I've never used it.

Every time I used FF on Linux, it had serious issues with hardware acceleration.

Give it a few years, and Windows will be using the Linux kernel while shipping NT in this way for compatibility reasons.

This is for me. I prefer Windows on the desktop, have a bunch of software that I use for my day to day that only exists on Windows, use a Linux VM for a portion of my dev work, employer is locked in on Windows, can't dual boot because of IT, etc...

The current WSL is pretty good, but version 2 is going to be a massive upgrade.

I also refuse to give Apple money for their overpriced garbage products.

Firefox is absolute garbage on any OS that isn't Windows. I think that's probably the biggest thing for the power user crowd...but as a someone that finds dual booting too inconvenient, so I virtualize instead, and will never touch an Apple product..works great for me and most family members and friends I set up with it are pretty satisfied.

The new built-in tracking protection is pretty great, and the only extension most people really need is uBlock Origin.

Maybe they honestly didn't know? Hell, I didn't even know about global warming on Mars until OPs comment..

The framers wanted the people to have access to the same weapons the government did - to allow the people to have a very real check over the overreach of said government.

Benjamin Franklin was an inventor - if you think when they wrote the second amendment they didn't think "gee, maybe guns will shoot faster someday" then I don't know what to tell you.

Reddit doesn't need this system there are plenty of vote farms that you can pay a miniscule amount of money to and they will do it for you.

Well yes, but that is a privilege that the country bestows upon you as a token of good will and faith - not a natural right under the constituion; and I would not expect it either. Should I be allowed the affordances of the 1st amendment while on American soil to advocate for the fall of the American republic? I would be deported very swiftly.

> We don't "owe" anything to anyone, but this not the behavior of the greatest country in the world.

I didn't say the US shouldn't let people in or be respectful of foreigners - I was just stating the fact that they do not have any legal obligation to do so. Of course they do it because it is good for the country - but if they stop, who is going to make them change their mind? It's up to the American people to decide what they want for their country at any given time - the rest of the world has no power to make them do otherwise - as does any other country and I wouldn't want to force any country to take people they don't want to either.

You say that like countries already don't take opportunities to spy on foreigners.

> Your comment sets up a pointless argument in that of course no country is required to admit anyone, but reasonable policies invite good reciprocal treatment.

All I said was that the US has no obligation to do anything for outsiders. I didn't say they shouldn't and obviously they do - just don't expect some kind of natural right to be accorded to you if you aren't a citizen of their country.

In the time the constitution was framed, "well regulated" meant properly trained and not "subject to 30 million pages of government control and criminilization".

If you want to cherry pick certain parts of the second amendment - I can do that too: "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".

Try buying a firearm while on a tourist visa.