Mostly because the FOSS community doesn’t have a single point of leadership that is maniacally focused on becoming a total monopoly.

And that’s a good thing

'It used to be this and I want it to be this way, hold my hand for an hour while telling me its not this way anymore

Yeah, but that already happens every time Microsoft does a major version “upgrade”.

Embrace, extend, extinguish will accelerate.

A lot of EU regulations will often cause an industry to standardize on their global products following the more strict standard.

Of course, it always is.

But a lot of this type of enshittification can be difficult to learn about without getting your hands on thw product first. Especially if it’s a new model.

the CRA website? I’ve been able to access it on Firefox (through Linux) without being hassled.

Same here.

Maybe they’ve got some privacy plug-ins that are preventing the CRA website from functioning properly?

In the past, I have had to add my bank and some government websites to my whitelist

The problem is, you don’t always know they will do this until after you pay your money for them.

Not to mention a lot of states voted for the bastard 3 times.

Increasing that price means less people will buy the product.

Unless your competitors are also facing the same forced price increase.

That is the least of his linguistic faults.

her goal isn’t to get them to stop, it’s to get them to recognize what garbage writing is and how to fix it so it isn’t garbage anymore.

Sadly, that may be the best we can hope for.

Can I sell them some insurance) first?

Countries outside of the Western world and Asian neighbors have been siding with China over the US for a while now, probably due to all the invasions and coups.

And the targeted application of soft power.

A game which the US also used to play, but has recently decided to rapidly abandon.

Pariah state is the designation I have started to use.

Learn?

The Americans are doing the opposite - they’re complaining that AFD has been labeled an extremist organization.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/02/marco-rubio-germany-afd-00324283

The US is no longer trustworthy.

And it will take a lot of time and effort from the Americans to regain the trust of the international community.

Once again demonstrating how unreliable the American government has become.

It will be a very long time before the international community trusts America.

Obama put in some regulations on the investment industry with the intent of preventing another sun-prime /derivative crisis.

And Trump removed those protections a few years later for no other reason that Obama had implemented it in the first place.

If it’s on private property who gives a shit

• Fires don’t respect property lines.

• Rescue workers still have to deal with the mayhem (and risks you have created) if you do something stupid on your own property.

If your idiot son wants to build a structurally questionable tree house and the parents don’t do anything about it and he dies that’s on them.

Some of us have human empathy.

See: Regulations around building structures on private property.

Even those are based on people doing it wrong in the past and endangering themselves and others.