Think you’re taking this too seriously.

To the average Joe, yeah, Windows is easier to install than ever. But to anyone with a passing interest in the OS has needed to do more and more work just to keep the OS recognizably sane vs the mess it has become.

Contrast that to Linux, which has stayed recognizably sane or even getting better.

I don’t work on uBlock or even webdev but it doesn’t take much of a stretch to think YouTube’s servers will refuse to immediately transmit a video stream after the webpage is requested; probably waiting for a typical user to skip 2 30-sec ads.

I might be behind on the Tech News, but did Qualcomm really win the license dispute with ARM that quickly? Over the Nuvia/Oryon IP?

I wish I had a source but AFAIK it was planned, but MediaTek might be reconsidering, since Qualcomm’s X Elites haven’t exactly sold very well. Adoption is too slow.

I wish they put out Mini ITX boards or NUCs. I’d love to mess around with these SoCs in Linux.

Android Authority 's TL;DR (conveniently) doesn’t mention the actual downside to this update. But it’s fine imo, since this was actually a pretty insightful read.

My TL;DR:

• Google’s ARR/VRR implementation is hopefully more compatible with the GKI system vs. current per-vendor, per-device implementations
• To add this support, vendors must implement v3 of the Hardware Composer and Hardware Abstraction Layer APIs.
• That means also undoing existing kernel changes for their devices and retooling it to support HWC & HAL v3. Lots of engineering time.
• This solution still isnt perfect. There’s a notable limitation in something called the “panel’s Tearing Effect”, but im not an expert at displays so CTRL+F it for the paragraph in question.

I didn’t take my time to read this with my full attention, I’ll be the first to admit; But I think this article is being way too dramatic and paranoid. And thats coming from somebody certifiably overdramatic and paranoid.

EDIT: to add, it does have some reference to past and current events in the technology space but it quickly devolves into baseless, referenceless speculation.

Also, is this just a “stole this topic from xyz social media” article but from Hacker News instead of Reddit?