There has got to be more money in Linux than Windows since the majority of servers are running it. The problem is Linux doesn't see user experience as anything that is necessary. When it does (ubuntu, et al) it thrives....but many of us have been waiting since the 90s for everything to "work" on Linux without having to screw around.
People love it when things just work and for many of them Apple and Windows do just that.
Because they realized they were in this together, unionized, not just demanded but fought for more rights and a better life balance. Since the baby-boomers more women entered the work force and used their "extra" income to buy things. That lead to inflation of those assets - especially housing. Now people continue to push down labor rights so they make even less than before.
I'm with you though, I find this to be extremely frustrating.
Replace YouTube with network TV vs cable in the early days. There is a way past YouTube but people must be willing to adapt and/or take the hit building the next thing. Most of the best TV shows have been from network and especially the premium ones like HBO, Showtime, and now Netflix.
However, it took many years to get here and most people probably can't afford to compete without net neutrality.
Nothing you mentioned is a replacement for Youtube, where on demand I can get a video on replacing the clutch on my car or a quick tutorial on promises in node.js
I didn't mean to replace YouTube as a product specifically. I meant that this happened over 30 years ago between the networks and cable. Network TV dominated and cable had the same problem with attracting both views and content producers. The point of the matter was to not complain that it is impossible; it is just hard. However, others have already solved a similar issue so the lessons learned can be applied here too.
Now this actually raises an interesting question. Would you define a monopoly based on the service a platform offers, or the resulting combined services created by everyone utilizing the platform? One could argue that any service that allows you to upload and share video is a replacement for Youtube from the perspective of the platform's service. But you're auguring that unless another platform has a comparable amount of content, it is not a viable replacement.
You fight it by taking the personal hit and run for office yourself. From my experience, the only thing you can really control is yourself. The problem is running for office is a pain and most people don't want their personal lives going public.
democracy used to be the optimal system because it processed information faster than authoritarianism. advences in technology reverse this relationship. whoever gets to the steering wheel has the potential to stay there for a long while with a very efficient (in terms of policing behavior per person employed) police. this all sounds like a bad joke but it is happening as we speak in china.
Check your diet. This happened to me when I was consuming large amounts of carbs for breakfast and lunch. I switched to keto and noticed the tiredness went away in the afternoon and I didn't require 3+ cups of coffee in the morning. Basically I was crashing multiple times a day which was driving me to the point of falling asleep at work or behind the wheel.
I built a bathroom with a heated floor last year. For that floor I needed 42 m of heating cable. This cable is poured into the flooring screed and as such can not be spliced, it has to be in one piece.
Ir ordered 42 m and got a parcel with 18 m in the mail, apparently the person who processed the order mistook the order sequence number - 18 - for the ordered amount. I notified the supplier about this mistake, added some photo's of the cable - which is helpfully marked in meter-increments - and told them to send a new cable as I ordered 42 m.
The value equation would tip a lot more if Americans paid a fair price for automobiles. Everything, from oil, to roads, to the cars themselves, are stupidly subsidized.
(1) Drastic increases in gas and car taxes would be highly regressive, and disproportionately affect the poor.
(2) Housing prices are rising in large part due to foreign investment / money sheltering. I doubt that you could plausibly increase gas and car taxes high enough offset this, and it would be outright dystopian if you did.
It really seems like we should be able to directly tax the foreign investment in order to improve public transit... I don't have any good ideas on this however.
> Ten years ago nobody was particularly certain electric cars could ever be feasible
This really isn't true. The "mainstream" media and other fools said it wasn't viable. I lived in a place where an electric golf cart was an option for primary means of transportation. The city had "cart" paths through out most of it. Electric cars certainly have been more than possible for several decades.
Of course with all things context matters. This was a designed/planned city that built itself from scratch in the mid to late 80s. So driving a few dozen miles a day was very possible, but no one was driving NY -> DC in a golf cart :)
Honestly, this stuff just shows us how rigged the system is. This isn't the first time it has happened. Flash crashes caused by bad algorithms lost a bunch of money that was reversed as well. IMO, it is horrible to reverse this. They took the risk and got to keep the reward, but as soon as they fail, they get bailed out every single time.
People love it when things just work and for many of them Apple and Windows do just that.