As a long time developer this tracks and sounds all too familiar in the first half. I'm just happy the client is actually coming soon™. Thanks for the update and the fun read

They are. I have one and it was delivered as advertised

The person who replied to you is correct. I meant as a machine to write scripts on, manage servers, etc. I do agree though Bazzite probably isn't the best for everyone, but that's what is great about Linux, there is a OS for everyone

This is correct.

I didn't pick it for home labbing as a primary as I mostly use that machine for gaming, but just to show how well it works overall as a general purpose OS. I did end up switching over to their Dx branch for updates so that helped for some of that stuff as well.

I switched to Bazzite based on a recommendation and it's been a fantastic OS for me (gaming and light development/home labbing) and I no longer have any desire to distro hop.

Took a bit to figure out the immutable stuff for some very niche things I needed done, but other than that ezpz

Don't know what constitutes "major", but if you expand out to the top 50 by population then over half have a mayor that is a PoC. A lot of those are in red states and are in trouble if these fascists start targeting blue dots specifically, I fear

They're not payment processors. Not saying they're not at fault for anything, but the whole fucking payments industry is complicated as hell with a ton of different layers between different companies and anyone of them could've been the ones to cause this issue. People are just circle jerking on Visa and MC because they're the biggest dogs in the chain

And they were profitable in 2020 and 2021, what's your point?

Companies lose money sometimes

I think the stream to own MP3 like you just downloaded from Bandcamp or something definitely has to be the model from the start. Then they can tweak it from there.

Square is owned by Block Inc who is a publicly traded company. They made $190m net profit in Q1 2025

It almost certainly wasnt the card brands forcing the issue. They outsource that stuff to payment processors and other middle men because it's cheaper and gives them some legal shielding if someone buys something illegal with their cards

That's not quite true.

There are several layers between point of sale and the card brands and each layer is generally an independent company. Each of those companies makes or sells hardware and/or software that is used by the companies lower in the chain.

Square takes up several of these layers at once and charges much higher fees than other processors. The high fees and massive market coverage is why they exist, not because they're chewing through VC funds still.