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  • So Amazon gets to be the sole distributor of printer paper, the manufacturer is some old growth harvestor in the Amazon using prison/slave labor for harvesting/processing, and even then you’re paying more for a worse product than when a well regulated and unionized workforce was producing the commodity a decade earlier.

    That doesn’t really make sense in this context as this paper is made by Canon not Amazon. You could make the argument that Canon is using rainforest paper, but then the rest of this kind of falls apart.














  • People want to say we own the device so we should be able to do whatever we want, but blatantly allowing people to install cracked apps with keyloggers onto their phones unintentionally will get them sued, and ultimately hurt how many people stay using their products.

    Imagine every user and password with the site listed was suddenly just accessible by everyone. It would be a hellscape of credit card companies trying to stop accounts because you order 18 pizzas off the dominos app in Georgia, and another 13 sandwiches in the burger king app at the same time in Jersey.

    We need to have the freedom to load apps we trust, but if you look at the standard user base, that’s who they have to make the phones for.

    It has been 16 years since Android came on the scene. Why do you think that these things are going to become such a big issue now in 2024 and beyond?




  • But they all explicitly forbid me from using the work I commissioned for commercial purposes

    I fear the courts will side with the tech companies on this as regardless of how illegal or immoral a certain act is, if you do it on a large enough scale it becomes “okay” again in the eyes of the system. Genocide, large scale fraud, negligent financial actions, pollution/poisoning, etc. You dump toxic chemicals into one person’s cup and you get the book thrown at you. You dump toxic chemicals into an entire city’s water supply and you pay a paltry fine that is never enough to seriously damage the company because that’s bad for the economy.