I just got my fairphone! It feels so free!

The shame, the people should know!

Oh god I remember that from the Midwest. Oh you need milk? Better get in the car and drive 15-20 minutes one way to get to the closest (and most expensive) store. By the time you get back you brined at least $5 in gas, not counting the cost of the milk.

I absolutely feel you, but the best way to stick it to them is to ride transit as often as you are able with their shit schedules, and walk when you can. Metrics and ridership are what drives investment. Its stupid because it is actually backwards (investment drives ridership) but in america car is the only thing worth spending billions of dollars on.

For most of Americans this is a thought they honestly can't grasp. Car culture and car brain are real. The first thing I head every time I see a post with a walkable neighborhood is "where is the parking?". They truly never have thought about what life would be like without a car

it's not entirely clear if the HDMI Forum can (or will be able to) block people going with a trial and error approach to getting more modern HDMI features working in the open source drivers

Hey this is our monopoly! You can't just come in here and use your brain to bypass our arbitrary rules!

I wanted to try it, but they specifically banned Linux players, so they didn't want my money I guess

Commenter didn't say it, but also the IO board may be bad too. Drive may be fine if you crack it open and treat it as an internal drove. (Note you may be forced to reformat it so the data would be lost, but functionally it might be fine)

If you're only option is to give in to big corpos, then don't do it. Go replay a classic game, relive a world you haven't touched in years. Mass effect, dragon age, halo, skyrim, think of all the old games completely playable on a 360 now that you probably haven't touched in years. Go back to them instead of giving in.

I truly believe its bad now, but its not going to last. Yes, I know that they want to take computers from us, but their purchasing isn't going to stay this consistent. Its going to be rough for a bit, but after a few more contracts fall through and these purchases aren't renewed for year after year (and looking at stock prices investors are not happy about these massive purchases) data centers are going to purchase less, and I really believe we're going to see hardware crawl back to gaming.

Its up to us to decide which companies deserve our money when that day comes.

A Milhouse divided!

You're a grand old flag you're a highflying flag!

In five years when its even more dire WSJ will be posting about how millenials are splurging on sliced bread and milk.