What never ceases to amaze me is that he can't just do these things himself, meaning that other people are putting time, money and effort into these utterly childish and petty acts.

Interesting! I ignored the prompt for exactly the reasons you describe. Sadly, it appears I have no friends here anyway 😭

While that is default, it's fully configurable as it was in Arc.

This is good to know! Is there a reason everyone seems to ignore Zen? I've been using it ever since moving from Arc and have been quite happy with it.

I used to have some actual sponsors, not even through ad networks, back when I was doing the weekly open source updates and stuff.

Remember the days when your blog could be a legit source of secondary income?

It's worse than performative pointlessness since all available evidence indicates that the people who remain there get a misguided view of public perception or even of well known facts that pulls them inevitably to the right rather than the opposite.

Wait. You're saying there are people who like chewy bacon? Monsters.

But...but...how can it be real truth telling if it doesn't mirror right-wing talking points?

It's not really about saving money. It never was. It's about a fundamental disregard and devaluing of the workforce in order to weaken it. The lessons execs learned from 2019/2020 were about giving employees "too much" power and they are willing suffer whatever cost to not allow that to happen again