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I suspect there must be a secret majority of capitalist-apologists lurking on Hacker News because every time I open a thread, the top comment is defending one of these corporations.

I grew up and lived in Seattle. I left because of Amazon. My rent spiked, Capital Hill's cultural landscape that raised me was bought out and appropriated for the new influx of tech workers who couldn't care or know the musical miracle of what they had plundered.

I live and breathe computing systems and I want less of me wherever I go. Our effect when we enter local ecologies is stultifying, ruining, yet is celebrated as progress by some nebulous measure none of us can touch or taste or feel except for the wealthy.

With Amazon's entrance came foreign Chinese investment to buy out family run businesses like Mama's Mexican Kitchen. My aunt worked at Mama's for more than a decade. She was a fixture: articles were written up on her special brand of caustic wit she brought to every table. The Chinese investors bought out the whole block to convert Mama's and other neighboring cultural waystations into soulless high rises for the likes of me.

I'm not certain we need to make this accessible to "the next billion". We like to dress up these actions in virtue but the truth is we hook people up because it's a business. Facebook devastated our social fabric. I don't think it should have been invented. But here we are with its nuclear fallout all because some young douche thought it was a good idea.

If everyone owned a personal cloud box, security procedures would quickly fall off a cliff, those people are now the new botnet.

Maybe leave people alone, stop sticking our fingers in all the places they might stick to money. Let the geeks take care of their little tribe.

Their webpage says Iridium is built on top of Chromium.

This was the Buddha's own thinking when he established his order of monks. Sadly, it has not weathered the last couple thousand years in such grace, as many East Asian Buddhist monasteries have become thoroughly corrupt, with monks misappropriating funds.

Perhaps nothing can preserve institutions from ossifying than date-determined termination.

Has anyone called dang's attention to this? Hacker News should be in support of a free and open web, not a gated one. Allowing such links is implicit approval.

This is deeply upsetting to me because I have continually pushed Firefox to friends and family as the only alternative to Google's strongarm dominance of our virtual lives.

I have no other alternative to recommend my social circle and feel, daily, increasingly helpless to do anything about a future determined to shake down the miracle of humanity for pocket change.

Mozilla Corp--the for-profit business arm of nonprofit Mozilla Foundation--has sold out its users before in a partnership with German ad company Cliqz and again in a marketing blitz for Mr. Robot. No amount of outrage from its users has changed their behavior. Perhaps because we are locked into a browser duopoly, Mozilla Corp feels privileged to continue to abuse user trust.

How do we take back user privacy when the world's computing window becomes poisoned by those impassioned for money? It is deplorable behavior.

Why didn’t anyone ask the residents if they wanted a megacorporation to move into their neighborhoods? Amazon insisted on absolute secrecy moving forward and elected officials went right along with it.

Queens residents are outraged by this news. No one asked them. How is this democracy at work?

But does Light Table now without its original founders have any steam behind it? A glance at its GitHub tells me no.

A team spent years raising funds and developing first Light Table, then Eve, only to walk away with apologies. Why does this make me frustrated? Does the team owe those who pitched money into this (I wasn't one because I didn't know of Light Table at the time) a show of commitment to their product? I can't help but think of the bad will Google garnered shutting down beloved products, such as Inbox and Reader. That bad will will take decades to repair, perhaps longer.

I am not making any personal attacks: I am only curious at the way I feel knowing two projects were shuttered before they really had their chance to live.

Why Chrome first? This makes me sad.

I just wrapped up post-production on my first short film, "Mead" and was looking for a resource like this!

I don't know why the article didn't mention the most prominent technical features of Pop!_OS that propels it beyond being a mere copycat.

* HiDPI Daemon: They wrote this themselves and what it does is if you have mixed DPI monitors, it auto-detects and conforms them to the lowest common denominator. Wayland does this by default but support for Nvidia isn't there yet and applications like Firefox don't reconform between monitors.

* Systemd-boot. GRUB is the past. Systemd-boot is life. Faster startup to desktop.

* Do Not Disturb and performance profile picker from the menu bar.

* Dat installer. They collaborated with Elementary OS' Daniel Foré on this. It's polished, easy for anyone to grok, offers simple full-disk encryption, and and creates a recovery partition in case you hose your install.

System76 has really thought through these usability improvements to bring us a desktop that anyone can use and encourages security out of the gate.