This has happened in the US too with the patriot act (having all your electronic communication monitored to protect us citizens from terrorist attacks, following 9/11) and we saw how that played out with the prism program. You can’t be opposed to protecting people can you?

Now the EU is trying to couple a law to which you would normally be opposed to (having all your electronic communication scanned to protect children from being abused, following the raids on EU child trafficking rings), with a topic like child protection to which you can’t possibly be opposed to without sounding like a complete psycho-pervert.

It’s just more expensive to make a new substitute and stop selling the toxic shit you still have in storage with no way of getting rid of it. So regulation has to lead the way…otherwise there is no incentive to stop. How about letting THEM come up with a way of removing the chemicals they already put into the environment first, before giving them the next free ticket to pollute.

Asus, Samsung and Sony are still making some very handy phones. Apple and Xiaomi can go suck it. Admittedly smaller phones in 2023 tend to be on the premium side, but imo they also last longer…because you don’t drop them as often.

Especially the Sony Experia 5 (I through V) is the perfect balance between an old school width where you can easily hold and use the phone in one hand but also have more space to scroll vertically. Its got a beautiful 21:9 display, so cinematoc content looks dope as well.

Greta for EU president.

That’s how late-stage-capitalism works. companies just exist to maximize profits, unnecessary scale, or simply make more profit for their shareholders. It’s not for the customer. As soon as the innovations stop and the market is cornered by the competition, it’s just maximizing profits until the wheels fall off, f the user.

true, but that doesn’t mean it was cheap.

Usually that means: We didn’t hire enough devs for optimization, didn’t allocate enough time for it and prioritized marketing.

shitify?

Nice to see Microsoft is cleaning house one day after the aquisition went through, starting with the root of the problem. This is very likely part of the deal and is gonna bring about some long needed changes.

firefox hitting homeruns on user-friendliness with actually useful features that protect you online, while all other browser just wanna put more ads in front of your face.

X is the new toilet of the internet. Go X yourself

There are many fans of linux at microsoft. The subsystem is a testament to their push towards more interoperability. Not perfect but a start.

rumored to be an enterprise tier “windows in the cloud” solution . But that doesn’t mean there won’t be an offline solition personal OS where u have basic functionality with ads on the desktop. If you know win11 and xbox new startmenus, expect more of those unmovable ad spots…sorry recommendations

If all VPNs are banned, french companies are fucked. Any remote login happens via VPN.

It’s a shame humanity hasn’t learned more from the last century, this one wasn’t supposed to be a sequel.

Linus just recently did a whole episode on a few Android TV boxes from China. Very concernig findings

bing-gpt is a legal genius and so are you.

The logical question here is: will COD be in gamepass? otherwise what’s the point of this takeover.

Valve just recently announced they weren’t planning a refresh “any time soon” but that doesn’t mean they are ignorant about Nintendo apparently trying to close the gap with a new switch, that’s supposed to be at least as powerful a PS5/XBS. Competition is good for the consumer.

The streaming market is splintered to max and oversaturated by content. The bubble already burst and now people are cordcutting again or fleeing to independent content. Absolutely nobody wants ads back and all companies do is push them on users for ever more revenue. The model only worked because it wasn’t as inconvenient and full of ads as traditional paytv/cable.

So now we’ve gone full circle and back to lobbies who at some point will undoubtedly create streaming-packages that will include a certain set of partenered services. Can’t wait for the +1000€ per year -T-mobile-package-plan! Apart from Spotify who have kept their “affordable music streaming for 9.99€” promise over the last 10 years…the motion picture models have just become more expensive and user-unfriendly!