I’d go in a different direction - requiring someone to sing your national anthem is wrong. It’s wrong when the U.S. do it, it’s wrong when Canada does, it’s wrong when China does it.

I find national pride hard to understand, but forced displays of national pride are really iffy.

I wouldn’t even say that. Even if they had a truly unique LLM that ran partially locally with a custom co-processor, Android might still have been a good choice. It’s just hard to beat an open source base that’s already compatible with most mobile hardware, and relatively easy to find Devs for.

I love how everyone is debating “Sells that information to companies”, but no one’s talking about “knows everything you do”.

Someone in the dorm I lived in had a Ford Ranger. Even though it’s one of Ford’s smaller pickups, it looked very oversized compared to everything else in the parking garage.

For games like this it’s almost always licenses for cars or music. They probably weigh the cost off renewal vs likely future sales.

Using Android as a base was honestly the most reasonable thing they did. No reason to reinvent the wheel. What they made with it is admittedly really shit, though.

No, that was IBM, not valve.

Huh, I’ve been in that train. Sudden, random hit of Nostalgia.

Not a mod here, but I don’t see how written tits could be a problem. Hell, artsy tits should probably be fine too. Sexual tits are, I’m pretty sure, the actual line.

I think Reuters only has a Best of feed from their agency side, which isn’t really that useful as a news feed. All their feeds seem to be shut down, at least the ones I had stopped working.

I trust Reuters more than I trust Media Bias Fact Check. I of course still vary my media diet, but they’re certainly a pillar of it.

Seem to remember that they had a big scandal with a climate change denier editor that changed some articles a few years ago. Good to remember that no oragnisation is above scrutiny.

Water. Cold brew black or green tea if I’m feeling frisky.

Looks very “default corporate design”. Only association that comes up for me are office supplies.

I’ve seen what a splintered carbon arrow can do, and for a very short moment I thought the image was actually showing something like that. Still sucks, though.

I am very much pro space exploration, but the current plans many companies present for Mars colonies just seem like they would add very little value, while bringing tremendous danger and strife for the inhabitants, should anything ever be built.

I think we need to separate legitimate interest in space and related technology from bullshit marketing with scifi flavour.

I mean, if I felt morally obliged to disclose illegal or immoral practices to the public, I’d be sure to run so somewhere they can’t get me. If there aren’t proper whistleblower protections, you gotta make your own.

one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it’s a gacha. I don’t want to gamble with my account being banned

Yeah, let’s keep it to one kind of gambling. I like and use opensuse tumbleweed. Rolling release, never had stability problems.

Ich habe tatsächlich beruflich recht wenig mit Bürokratie zu tun, daran mag es liegen, dass mir das als Problem nicht so präsent war.

Und beim Status Quo ging es mir eher ums Lieferkettengesetz - zu den Strafzöllen kann ich nicht so viel sagen. Es nervt mich allerdings etwas, wie sehr wir uns bemühen, Konzerne zu schützen, die recht wenig für ihre Kunden und Mitarbeiter übrig zu haben scheinen. Heißt natürlich nicht, dass es unbedingt so toll wäre, von importen abhängig zu sein.

Ja, ich denke dass es am Ende ein großes Problem ist, eine Lösung dafür zu finden, ausreichend große oder gut vernetzte Firmen davon abzuhalten, entsprechendes in ihrer Lieferkette zu verstecken.

Bei der Bürokratie fällt es mir tatsächlich schwer zu entscheiden, wie problematisch das in der Umsetzung tatsächlich gewesen wäre. Am Ende fehlt mir da die Perspektive, ich habe nie irgendwas geschäftsmäßig importiert.

Ich halte es jedoch gefährlich, mit der Rechtfertigung, den Status Quo im Markt nicht gefährden zu wollen, erstmal nichts zu tun. So kommt man schlicht nicht voran.