You flipflop between pro and anti nuclear, dont have standard construction methods nor designs, ship out labor or don’t train new workers at all, lower investment, and don’t plan for the future. Wow, costs are up! What a surprise!

Meanwhile China has a clear plan to act upon that goes decades into the future. Of course the costs will fall and construction times will speed up.

That this is a mystery to politicians and stakeholders baffles me.

Typical suit behaviour. They just see the money and understand nothing of the trade.

I’d be much happier with GoG if they opensourced most of their stuff and supported stuff like Stop Killing Games.

For now, I buy games from them and backup the installers, but until they become more open, especially towards Linux, and stop using shit like Discord, my support will just be in the form of shopping for games I want. Nothing more.

Gentoo has their head screwed on straight.

@[email protected] Google has been allowed to operate this way because they are the only real alternative to Apple. If that alternative disappears, it will pressure either the community to rally and create awareness, for it to work on alternatives, or (and this is my bet) for a bigger instance like that of an EU nation or the EU itself, to step in. Since the EU is beginning to see the US threat and voices for digital sovereignty are getting louder, such a move by Google could realistically draw the attention of the EU Commission, parliament, and courts.

However, that can only happen if Google makes the mistake. If we prevent it from making the mistake, it will have moved the Overton window enough to make the situation worse than it is now, but not as bad as it could’ve been. So we’ll just end up with a worse situation and no political nor judicial attention. Google will have boiled the frog.

The short term gain of Google backing off will offset the long-term gain of a real solution.

We saw what it’s doing for Microslop with their forceful introduction of windows 11…

Not all harm is equal and not all harm is useful.

The article does indeed continue 😮 There are so many full page interruptions,I thought the end had been reached.

Good to know that they are considering moving away from Microslop. It’s about damn time. As the article insinuates, there is little hope of Microslop turning down the dial on AI. They will create AI problems and sell AI solutions for those problems.

What do you not understand?

Don’t interrupt your enemies when they are making mistakes. Let Google make this mistake and the EU fuck them up.

But I guess using Microslop is fine for everybody else if ICE isn’t after you 😇 Github, Office 365, Winblows, all safe to use.

Move Godot to codeberg. Github is too popular. It’s where all the fool kids go and link their LinkedIn to. It’s Microslop all the way down. It’s highly likely the number of real contributors will be higher on Codeberg than Github.

Also, doesn’t github have a viebcoding platform built into it making it really easy to create AI slop?

Edit: yep they do! Get the fuck off of github!

Don’t be dependent on another state. Cooperate with all possible states.

That’s just dependency dressed up.

Anyway, it’s not like Europe is going to make their own chips.

European Chips Act

The seeds are being planted.

Nobody buys laptops anymore. Only geeks do.

Because the problem is that EU is dependent on the US. Switching to be dependent on another state is not the goal. Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire is not the solution.

It’s not nationalistic for states to rely on internal products. And BTW, Europe is trying to go opensource. I’d rather have opensource than foreign closed source, regardless of whether it’s Pakistan, Australia, or Nigeria. And other states should also be going opensource, not just European ones.

Everyone should be dumping closed source - especially US closed source, surveillance-ware.

But it’s strange it’s been this long and nobody seems to have gotten this feature working, despite a big want for it.

It’s not strange at all that the feature hasn’t been implemented. Not enough people donate, so there isn’t enough funding to implement features. Most people wait around until something is there or pay for closed source stuff. Funding is the major issue. If there were funds, people could spend time to implement such complicated features. Discord had millions in seed funding and has thousands of developer hours sunk into the platform. The developers of element have to juggle element and their jobs.

That is exactly why I’m saying: if you have the money to pay for discord nitro, throw some money Matrix’s way. It’ll benefit us all instead of some money-hungry enshittifiers.

As you can read in the other responses that misunderstood the post, some people do not want to self-host and want something hosted. That’s the beauty of opensource though: whatever suits you.

No problem. I wasn’t sure how to frame it. It just bothers me that people are willing to pay for closed source stuff, but as soon as it comes to opensource it must be free and have all the features, otherwise they won’t use it.

That’s the link of the post 🤔 It seems like you’re not the only one mistunderstanding that. Why is that?

But instead it offers people to learn hosting and sysadmin stuff.

It does not. The post says paying for a hosted matrix server. That means you pay for somebody to host it. There’s nothing more to it.

The full discord nitro plan costs 10$/month. That can get you a server for your friends and you can communicate with other servers. If everybody chips in, it’s the cost of discord nitro minimum if you’re 5 friends.

I already see this is going to be a fruitless discussion with those proposed discussion points. “His attempt to reduce government spending” 🤣 “attempt”.

That it’s owned by … the person who owns it.

How do you mean? You have to apply to get your game there and they reject it if it isn’t popular already?

Honestly, announce it on a gaming community here that allows promotion. And put it on GoG too. Some of use are trying to reduce our use of US tech or reduce use of monopolies.

People who want to use less US platforms.

Of course, no peertube. Typical.

Companies making shitty products need somebody to buy them. If consumers buy them, they are also part of the problem.

Humble bundle owned by EA or some crap company now?

Ziff Davis

I don’t expect a short term solution. Where did you read that?

If we keep android the way it is and just slowly boil the frog, there will be little to no incentive to spend lots of money and time on alternatives. If you seriously believe the majority isn’t already getting fucked over by Scroogle and their spy devices, what world do you live in?

There isn’t going to be an acceleration for a non-android phone if android still stays “acceptable”. It’s not like investments and developments in alternatives are going faster than bureaucracy. When do you expect we get a big third or fourth competitor in the smartphone OS market? Harmony by Huawei?

You want immediate change. You’re asking for the impossible and disappointed you’re not getting it or that it isn’t happening.

🤷

You accept that EU has started doing something and then demand they mandate something which they are in the process of doing.

Crapple built up their position to this point over 20 years in a time where the US were considered allies. Trump has luckily come about to change that perception and to allow the EU to stop being a bunch of pansies clammering to their daddy protector. They cannot piss of the US completely at the moment as it would take a single presidential order from a rampantly maniacal orange man to switch of most of Europe.

Change doesn’t happen immediately. It’s slow. Give it time.

The EU commission has multiple ongoing cases against Apple. The opened a new one in April regarding their non-compliance on multiple fronts, including the app store (which is related to Google’s bullshit). They have to give a response within 12 months which means that by 25 April 2026 we should have a response on what the EU will be doing.

The EU forced Apple to make their phones more repairable, they forced them to introduce USB-C charging for all their mobile devices (laptop, phone, and smartwatch IIRC), forced them to implement an alternative app store (very flawed implementation but see above), and probably more that I’m unaware of.

The EU isn’t perfect, it’s being influenced by the US, which have the goal of breaking it up), but they are doing something, which is more than can be said about most countries. I understand cynicism, but in this case, I still maintain that letting google fuck up Android would do the world a service, just like Trump is doing the world a service by fucking his country up. We may go through a few years (maybe decades if the US succeed in breaking up the EU) of difficulty because of it, but we will come out stronger afterwards.

Most people cannot and will not appreciate the EU and everything is has until they are impacted themselves.

I kinda want to see this fail in Europe. As in Google implements it and pisses the EU the fuck off. Please, I just want to see Google smacked in the mouth for implementing this, then losing billions fighting it in court while the EU implements digital sovereignty because the US can’t be trusted.

Please. It’s the only way people learn. First they have to lose something before understanding what it is they had.

That’s the one. Thanks.

Qualcomm should embrace Linux instead of relying on Microsoft. Valve recognized that in at least 2012. Who knows how long it will take Qualcomm to wake up.

People are starting to leave Windows. Windows 11 on ARM is not going to be a good experience and who will want all the AI crap slowing down a gaming rig? People won’t be able to install Windows 10 on the new ARM devices so the most likely option will be Linux with either SteamOS, Bazzite or something else that can run Steam.

Valve has also been investing in running x86_64 on ARM (can’t remember the name of the project) and even going to use it in the Steam Frame. It will run on Linux, not windows. Ignoring Linux is going to be idiotic if Qualcomm wants to be appealing to gamers.

Another place where Europe needs to throw off the US shackles. Import and exporting goods is not a problem, but allowing one country to monopolise your critical infrastructure is a decision that’s beyond stupid. Sometimes the decision is forced, but once there is power to eject the monopoly and the decision is made not to, that’s incredibly stupid.

The Trump administrations showing their true colors has been the eye opener the world needed.

What a surprise. I makes me think of the US women treating Eastern Asian women who married western men like whores, victims, or gold-diggers. Many people think about the world locally, not internationally. They apply their ways of thinking to the rest of the world and have trouble understanding that what is normal for me isn’t normal for you (and vice versa). They have trouble understanding that things aren’t always as they seem and making a summary judgement about a person from a short slice of their life, which they can interpret wrong, does not a person make.

I believe we have different definitions of slop. Slop isn’t the input to me but the output. You can get all the best ingredients to make a pie but if you mix it wrong, you get slop. Same goes for low quality input being moulded into a gem.

AI doesn’t always output slop.

And if you’re focusing on input, then all your electronics are slop. It’s almost guaranteed that child labor and exploitation was involved in collecting the resources required to build it. Your chocolate is most likely slop tooby your logic - if you bought any big brand or no name chocolate, child labor was almost certainly involved. And those children were likely also sold by their parents. There are also US products made from slaves (they call them prisoners, but is it really OK to lock somebody up for stealing a cookie and forcing them to work 8 hour days for cents per hour?) and in China Uyghurs are also forced to work unpaid. If you drink tea or coffee, boy is that all slop. The amount of land that ceded place to the large tea plantations (and let’s not get started on products with palm oil) and underpaid, overworked workers (mostly women BTW) are almost guaranteed to make that tea or coffee = slop.

Not all AI output is slop and not all slop is AI output.

That’s uh… interesting? I bet it wasn’t written in Godot.

Amazon Game Studios

Nope. Fuck Amazon.