Desktop and server are two wildly different support surfaces

Fair, but it’s electron. They can just add a new target and recompile the native libraries they’re using for Linux.

It’s really not that hard.

They have resellers

With that thinking, people would still be buying unlabelled arsenic wallpaper.

Consumer standards are a net benefit to society.

> and people are (incorrectly and dangerously) expecting to be protected now.

The general public hasn’t the faintest idea how to differentiate between a safe product and an unsafe one, and they shouldn’t have to

Then, that marketplace has no viable business. Society does not owe them anything. Seriously, if your business model requires you to sell illegal stuff, then your company does not deserve to survive. That’s the basics of regulation.

You're assuming the conclusion. Why is it the marketplace platform who should be the police? Should banks have to audit your life before you can open a bank account? Should you be unable to transact with anyone if you're not rich enough for them to justify that expense?

It's not Walmart you're proposing to unperson here.

The sellers are in practice anonymous, and the consumer facing Temu (or Shein, or Aliexpress, etc) very much markets to consumers, yet shirk any responsibility. They are Walmart but ignore the little accountability Walmart faces.

Of course Temu is responsible for things I buy in the Temu app, and pay Temu for, which then Temu ships to me.

> The sellers are in practice anonymous, and the consumer facing Temu (or Shein, or Aliexpress, etc) very much markets to consumers, yet shirk any responsibility. They are Walmart but ignore the little accountability Walmart faces.

They are not Walmart.

> Of course Temu is responsible for things I buy in the Temu app, and pay Temu for, which then Temu ships to me.

If you send money to someone in the PayPal app, are they responsible for what you bought? Not just for giving you a refund; for having liability if your house burns down. If the seller keeps their inventory in a rented space, should you be able to sue their landlord? If FedEx delivers a package to you, are they responsible for the regulatory compliance of what's inside?

Consider what would happen if you did that. Could a normal person buy or sell something or rent space or send packages, if the intermediary had to take on liability for anything you do with it?

Paypal is not fronting products or shipping them.

So you want to sue Craigslist or FedEx?

On Craigslist I have direct contact with the seller. Not on Temu.

Fedex has (almost) no idea what they're shipping.

These are not even apples and oranges.

And yet you still have children chewing toxic chunks of gypsum drywall,

because people now assume if you can buy it, it’s safe,

because their responsibility has been relieved of them.

I'm not understanding your example; as far as I know gypsum/gypsum drywall isn't toxic.

If you let your kid eat drywall compounds, and inhale drywall dust in the process, you’re not only missing my point, you’re proving it.

Just because it isn't toxic doesn't mean it is edible...? I would not allow my child to eat drywall, but neither do I consider drywall toxic. i.e. if they started chewing on some drywall, I wouldn't haul them to the E.R. in a panic.

Not uncommon to hear bold claims with every new and emerging technology that isn’t well understood by the media or general public. The excitement over nanobots seems to have run its course (for now?). Blockchain managed to find its way into every market imaginable. Battery technologies have consistently delivered bold claims on an almost yearly cycle, but we have at least seen incremental improvements. AI is obviously the worst offender in the current timeline.

It’s presumably easier to keep a smooth surface clear of bugs, dust and ice too.

Interesting - I knew they’d been trying to get off Qualcomm for years, but didn’t realise that they actually managed to do it.

Apple is on the three generation C chip I think the contract is up in the next two years with Qualcomm and within the next two generations that will it for Qualcomm modems next up Memory? The way things are currently going?

Can you access all that on you local lan though?

If so then you could access it over a reverse proxy like Tailscale.

Its trivially easy to set one up these days.

Trivially easy to set up Tailscale, if you have a machine on 24/7 at home.

If you’ve got the spare time and spare change to set up and coddle a 3d printing hobby you absolutely have the skills and funds to set up Tailscale on a $100 mini pc.

There is a lot of overlap between people who have a NAS and those with a 3D printer.

His passion does manifest as drama 90% of the time, but it’s somewhat necessary to build momentum and attention to the causes that he promotes. Also, he has to toe the line of opinion to avoid being slapped with spurious legal challenges.

Drama is a catch-all word now for people that lack the courage to engage with the wrongs in humanity.

Don't worry, we'll drag your lazy ass long while we clean up problems that you don't care to help fix.

> Also, he has to toe the line of opinion to avoid being slapped with spurious legal challenges.

Does he? Intentional misrepresentation is one thing and inadvertent inaccuracies quite another.

…or many people are using the products day to day in their work as IT professionals or developers?

I think it’s mostly the above, rather than a capitalist conspiracy, or in its relevance as a scientific curiosity.

EBay also has some very accurate data about market pricing for second hand goods and what categories are at greater risk of being returned, which reduces the risk of holding riskier items.

EDIT: regarding the CEO, you should find the interview where he’s challenged about funding.

The interview is here: https://youtu.be/Bmj2PaxX24E

Instant classic.