The useful shit is the big money deals.

When the US (or their Ukrainian assets) blew up Nord Stream Europeans cheered and opted to become dependant on US LNG. Turns out that was stupid.

They sign unfavorable trade deals and accept tariffs.

They buy extremely expensive F35s and the likes.

They host US military bases.

So yeah, not buying from McDonalds isn’t the big middle finger to US you think it is.

That would be the smart thing to do but let’s see if it happens. So far our EU leaders seem to worship the US and would gladly sabotage our economy to please the US and spite China.

Lol what a hot take.

No, we expect them to regulate a multi-billion dollar industry because that’s what governments do. Healthcare is a multi billion dollar industry. So is agriculture, and many others.

Not usually. Only if I have too much crap on my desk and it catches on something, but that’s easy to fix.

I do. Don’t really need a wireless mouse on my desktop PC. It’s not going anywhere :)

Sci-fi RTS sounds good but it looks sooo much like SC2.

Truly inspiring. This is what real leadership looks like!

Legislation to stop gambling for children when?

Personally I liked both Horizon and RDR2 but I find it stupid that people are downvoting you for just voicing your opinion.

I think it’s much better than the usual shit they do these days like “You won’t believe what bla bla bs”… At least it tells you what the article is about and you can decide if you want to learn more about that or not.

Very small update. I’m keeping an eye out for Danger Zone if they bring it back. Also hope they’ll enable demos again so stat sites like leetify work.

Garry pulled Linux support from Rust so imho he can get fucked too :)

Edit: to clarify I mean after I and other people purchased it with Linux support.
So now he knows what it feels like when you purchase something and the seller changes terms on ya. Nice!

We all know companies are pushing for a return to offices but I expected more pushback from employees.
Luckily I have it in my contract that I am a remote worker and the company doesn’t even have an office in my city, so I’m safe, but still I’d like to see wfh become the new normal.

Would be great if it would actually be usable.

From what I’ve read from people owning it it’s unfit for any purpose at the moment and very few people actually use it as their main phone.

Pine64’s model of “we build the hardware, the community builds the software” doesn’t seem to be working very well unfortunately.

I wanted to get a Fairphone 4 until I saw I saw it didn’t have a headphone jack. Made me think all their “sustainable” mottos are just marketing.

Purism with their Librem phones took people’s money and didn’t send them the product so I didn’t want to chance it or support a company that does that.

So in the end I got a Pixel 7 instead and put Graphene OS on it. Not particularly happy but didn’t seem like there was a better choice.

Recently found out from a Louis Rossman video that the lead dev of Graphene has some mental health issues that don’t make him a very trustworthy individual. Supposedly he stepped down but he’s probably still contributing code.

Tl;dr: phones = bad

I wanted to get a Fairphone 4 until I saw I saw it didn’t have a headphone jack. Made me think all their “sustainable” mottos are just marketing.

Purism with their Librem phones took people’s money and didn’t send them the product so I didn’t want to chance it or support a company that does that.

So in the end I got a Pixel 7 instead and put Graphene OS on it. Not particularly happy but didn’t seem like there was a better choice.

Recently found out from a Louis Rossman video that the lead dev of Graphene has some mental health issues that don’t make him a very trustworthy individual. Supposedly he stepped down but he’s probably still contributing code.

Tl;dr: phones = bad

Good read. I also liked his recent interview with Adam Conover, came at just the right time with this wave of everything getting shitty.

I’m also in the “let them burn” camp, hoping that’s gonna bring more people to open source platforms like lemmy/mastodon/etc.