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Consoles are a shrinking market. If they were offered money by TV manufacturers to cooperate with putting more ads on it, they most certainly will.

And I suspect Microsoft/Windows will too. Apple might not, though.

In the US

FTFY. The long term outcome for this is that the world stops revolving around the US. For better or for worse

Was there some context from the book that we’re missing?

Honestly, it sounds like amazing way to get started. You don’t need to be a programmer to make that fix.

I recommend joining the kde-devel matrix channel. Someone there will definitely be able to tell you what to do.

https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/building/help-developers/