Heh. Yes they're similar, but on the technical side different in a very important way. It has to do with opening a file from inside another program. If you select a shortcut, the program with treat or as a separate file, so most of the time the action will fail. A link, though, you should end up with the program opening the target of the link. In other words, a shortcut is a file that points at a different file, where a symlink involves she filesystem trickery to accomplish almost the same thing.
That's a horrible, just terrible explanation, though - but I'm pretty sure this is the gist of it.
I don't think we started out great, honestly. Our history is pretty fucking dark. I think we could have been great, and we might have even been getting close. But I absolutely agree that the progress we have made is regressing in front of our eyes. Worse, anybody who doesn't celebrate this senseless destruction is also being demonized.
I did a quick Google search, and this is just a random sampling of the results. What you are saying is false. Period. I don't know if you're intentionally lying or not, but it's frankly embarrassing to see someone try to argue against reality.
I agree with all of this, just want to add a little bit: these treated fucks are literally offended that we have anything. Because then we don't "remember our place" or whatever.
Except for the fact that nature has successfully balanced itself out for, well, as long as life has existed on this planet. Including recovery and finding a new balance after extremely drastic shifts in the environment.
Humans managed to remain a part of this for most our existence, too. So the current trends have absolutely nothing to do with our ability to manipulate our environment.
We've allowed an "elite" class of parasitic sociopaths to dictate the direction of modern society, and their influence has spread a corruption to every corner of the modern world. This insatiable greed will be our downfall, and there's nothing natural about it.
Well, not so much preventing as actively inhibiting. Technically, that order only applies to models used by the federal government, but it does create a perverse business incentive that I suspect is highly likely to have a chilling effect on the industry as a whole.
But I agree things are accelerating in the wrong direction, and regulations were needed years ago to prevent the upcoming shitshow.
Whoah, no need to get defensive! That was just a guess based on my own observations, and I never said anything about whether they have the right to do whatever the hell they want with their own chips (which would be true regardless, I reckon).
That said, given that their business model depends on their walled garden approach, I just find myself wondering if they might've seen the possibility of running any old ARM executable on their silicon as a potential threat to their business model? But there's all sorts of factors in play, so maybe I'm wrong and that whole possibility is irrelevant.
Do you happen to know if they strictly extended existing APIs?
Heh. Yes they're similar, but on the technical side different in a very important way. It has to do with opening a file from inside another program. If you select a shortcut, the program with treat or as a separate file, so most of the time the action will fail. A link, though, you should end up with the program opening the target of the link. In other words, a shortcut is a file that points at a different file, where a symlink involves she filesystem trickery to accomplish almost the same thing.
That's a horrible, just terrible explanation, though - but I'm pretty sure this is the gist of it.