It’s easier to make cigarettes than vape juice. Everyone can produce them.

No reason to believe it’s any hard to build a similar monopoly on that, too

Also true

So, it is a drug, but it’s not right to call it one?

There’s no indication they use cameras in there. It’s most likely just a sensor for vape smoke, similar to your common fire alarm.

And if it makes bathrooms a place where everyone can breathe without inhaling nicotine, I’m all for it. This is not a serious privacy concern.

Doesn’t Phillip Morris profit from vapes, too?

Bringing vapes as a popular nicotine delivery system is literally the way tobacco companies are able to proliferate and return smoking into fashion.

Also, smoking should be prohibited as well. Not only because it hurts the smokers themselves, but because others are affected without their consent.

Lemmy generally has a pro-drugs sentiment, which is certainly unsettling.

Also, can I visit bathrooms and not get into clouds of vape smoke, pretty please?

Nicotine is a drug.

Alcohol too, btw.

A bit more politeness goes a very long way.

Try being more civil, this will earn you way more support, especially since you want to change people’s minds.

I see - thanks for clarification!

Got confused because beforehand there was GNU IceWeasel (now GNU IceCat), which is now separate from IceWeasel. Quite a shitshow.

I was under the impression IceWeasel changed to IceCat.

And, honestly, from all I could remember, the default protections are so strong a good half of sites doesn’t even work properly lol

Typical GNU maximalism.

(But yeah - it really blocks all the bad stuff and doesn’t do anything you don’t ask it to do, not even call for updates by default)

That’s so cuuuuute

A teenager making a simple and cute calculator and deciding to share it with the world and the world takes that, people contribute, and project emerges

This is actually inspiring

There’s much more to company’s popularity than just the product quality.

Google, along with some others, pays money for browser developers to be the default engine - so that people never bother to try something else and actually see how good or bad Google is compared to everything else.

Facebook (Meta) is known for predatory business practices like forcing startups to sell out or have their concept forcefully stolen and them destroyed.

Amazon dominates by plunging the prices of their in-house products below payback to drive the competition into bankruptcy, then acts as a monopoly, driving prices up.

There’s plenty more such examples, but let me stop here for now. Giant corporations have powerful levers that are only available to them as they approach market dominance. And when they get 'em, fair play is over.

Essentially Arch Linux graph minus something.

Fair enough; however, to me it’s only optimal when there are no alternatives.

But to each their own.

A local open-source one, preferably.

Can’t help but mention Yandex is 100% as evil as Google is.

Out of popular choices, DeepL is probably least evil. Reverso is often a nice pick, too, especially Reverso Context.

There are also things like LibreTranslate, though the quality is generally lower (but can absolutely come in handy for simpler requests)

I straight up refuse to legally purchase any media that is officially unavailable for DRM-free download.

Such behavior on the side of creators and publishers cannot be tolerated.

Pirate it. They deserved it with such policies.

If some piece of media is unavailable without DRM/Internet connection - feel free to pirate it.

Often times, this is the only way to restore control over your media. And it’s a sign that we’re only able to tolerate it so far.

Then, your pirated media can be placed wherever you like - and taken offline if you want to.

Also, Linux is your best friend. No, seriously. No one proposes to insert any form of DRM in there, and everyone is free to fork unwanted changes, so it never has to come. You decide what you want.

Government always tries to establish as much power imbalance as possible