Three of the biggest premium mattress brands are owned by one company. That company now owns Mattress Firm. The FTC tried to stop the merger and lost in federal court.

What 15 years of comments, confessions, arguments, and reader engagement taught us about men’s loneliness.

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it’s everywhere, and a new book argues it’s key to understanding today’s inequality.

An unsolicited plea for dignity, from a former FCC Chief Counsel.

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

writing is a technology, frames are a frame. bespoke human content.

Your possessions came alive. Now they won’t stop talking.

Maybe insightful… I don’t necessarily agree with everything here (I haven’t had too many problems with wayland, and personally don’t care about systemd). I don’t really see how an average or even semi-power user would care about some of these things. Personally, I think if someone is fed up with Windows enough to switch they can overcome a few hurdles if they are savvy enough, but I understand that might not be viable for some less technically inclined people.

Scientists and researchers from respected institutions lay out the case against age verification as we’re beginning to know it.

Video about GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS is a custom, open-source operating system designed with the idea of providing users with the highest level of privacy and security. It is based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but differs significantly from standard software versions found in smartphones. Its creators completely eliminated integration with Google services at the system level, which avoids tracking and data collection by corporations, while offering a modern and stable working environment.

RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

I just really liked this paragraph: “There’s this great, overarching metaphor that sticks with you — that Microsoft Windows is like a station wagon, and Apple’s OS is like a luxury sedan, while Linux is like a free tank. Linux is the much better, much cheaper alternative. People find it intimidating, because they don’t know how to repair a tank. But it isn’t like they know how to repair a station wagon or a sedan either!”

Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.

With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.