Stupid. There are already alternatives. Nobody wants them.
No matter how good you make it, now that tiktok was taken from people any app will just be the tiktok replacement being forced on us instead of a worthwhile social media unto itself.
It's not like twitter which sold its own soul and was subsequently run into the ground. I think any attempt to replace tiktok will just piss people off, especially if they're clearly American corporate enterprises.
A chain that has historically built its business in being a cool place to hang out, now quadrupling down on being the lamest, most obnoxious place on earth...
American tip culture is fucked, and it has been for a very long time. Once gas stations started begging for a tip on my soft drinks I figured it was about time to rip the band aid off.
Unfortunately tipping less means wait staff are gonna get fucked -- no way to soften that. We need to get to a place where their livelihoods aren't dependent on generosity.
Oh, I'm keenly aware! I'm running vanilla arch on my laptop right now, and planning to migrate my desktop this year, I'm just pleasantly surprised how many have been willing to take the plunge
The prestige behind the thinkpad brand specifically predates lenovo. They bought it from IBM in '05. AFAIK they've always been seen as reliable, well built laptops, albeit a bit pricier.
As far as spyware, with win11 being what it is your options are install Linux or live with it no matter which manufacturer you go with.
I really wish it was easier to open up a TV, rip out all the compute and replace it with a custom display driver. Someone could unironically make a decent amount of money selling diy TV stupidification kits
Still plenty of Debian/Ubuntu out there. And with bazzite even Fedora's getting in on gaming.
Arch distros have made some truly impressive gains in userbases recently, though. Especially for being based on a distro that explicitly eschews user-friendliness
If I'm not mistaken the overwhelming majority of elons wealth is in company stock (including his other companies, not just Tesla)
It might need to fall pretty damn low for him to be able to afford all outstanding shares.