I don’t think open Android is viable.

It’s technically open, but it’s structured in a way that it’s de facto not open.

I am personally planning to move over to a Linux phone of some sort. Going to keep my A73 for critical apps/use cases and slowly move over to a Linux phone.

In a way, it’s good that Google is killing sideloading (in the real sense, where I decide what gets installed, not some hoodlums in Mount View or wherever).

Yes, I am in Europe.

I actually had a Nokia N9 back in the day until I lost it.

Jolla is on my watchlist.

I suspect I will keep my old phone for banking/e-government/work apps.

I really hope there will be some solid development on Linux phones in the coming year.

I will have to drop Android once it’s not possible to use F-Droid. This is a red a line for me. In a way it’s a good thing, it will help with my goal of dropping Americans services/products.

Literally promoting phrenology.

That’s why I said this article was subpar. And I even commented on this in pretty harsh terms:

the regime members are really busy doing their best to make a new metaphorical rope

I don’t agree with a lot of what they say, but I don’t believe they are malicious, at least to the extent that many American news sources are.

The Economist is generally a pretty good news source, but I thought this article was subpar.

Irrespective of whether this facial evaluation algorithm works or not, as things stand today, it is pointless to discuss its use in the context of meritocracy. A regime founded upon the rejection of personal responsibility, corruption and criminality makes such discussions irrelevant (algorithm or no algorithm).

At the risk of sounding like an accelerationist, I can’t get rid of the feeling that the regime members are really busy doing their best to make a new metaphorical rope.

Xi is not an oligarch, to my knowledge, he has always worked in the CCP.

I’ve never actually tried gaming on Linux for ARM, but there do seem to be some games:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Linux_ARM_games

But this list doesn’t seem to be complete as it doesn’t include Doom3.

You’re not going to beat the Americans at their own game. It’s a society that does not respect the rule of law, does not believe in true market competition and does not believe in democracy.

If you think I am acting out, consider the following point: recently Meta was found to have directly (in a premeditated manner) promoted scams/frauds that netted them $16B in commission in a single year. We all know that nothing will be done about this even under a hypothetical centre-right US government.

How do we know that? Well was anything done about Microsoft’s anti-competitive behaviour in the 90s?

But for me, the real irony is the polemics about competition and “free market”. In a real free market, MS, Meta, Google would not have hundreds of billions of dollar to burn because competition would drive profit margins to a state of approaching zero. Zuck would not be able to burn $45 B on his weird and disgusting Metaverse Mii autosexuality fetish.

Not a fan of the leadership of China, but I genuinely do believe that one area that we can learn from them is how to deal with oligarchs.

Counter arguement: you need to do your own research/planning/applications and so on. There won’t always be an easy “all inclusive” path. But opportunities are there for those who are looking for them.

That being said, it would massively help to speak at least one other language fluently.

You’re also correct that it’s not easy from a resource perspective. But if people from much poorer countries can make it work, than so can people in the US.

Touche! Nice one!

Not sure what you are refering to.

According to The Mercury News, Jinfeng Luo, who started at Intel in 2014, received a termination notice last July 7th, ending his service with the company at the same month.

There can be reverse situations (e.g. opportunistic individual delivering hard earned data from an honest company to American criminal groups) so its not black and white.

That being said “reap what you sow” can be a fair and just characterisation.

Someone downloading full datasets that would rarely happen in the regular course of work (unless there was special projec tor some sort).

Cuba may not have an extradition treaty with the US, but I somehow doubt you can just arrive there, as a relatively well known person of interest and stay there without giving the local thugs a cut.

I would speculate he is working with the CCP.

This is for fabless companies only. So this wouldn’t include Samsung since they both fabricate NAND and sell consumer SSDs.

That’s why Crucial is not on the list; they are owned by Micron which fabs NAND.

I will admit, this is not really clear at all. I am assuming “own brand” refers to this.

Getting different perspectives from different circles instead of being migrated to one dominant website culture is a big part of why I haven’t moved to piefed, since it seems like that semi-forced centralization is part of their vision.

Have you used Piefed and its multi-community comment system? I am asking because from using it, I don’t the impression of “being migrated to one dominant website culture”.

Looks like some pretty solid improvements (I use piefed on a different account).

Looking forward to checking out the image upload functionality and the UI/UX improvements.

Post urls are now “friendly” since they include the community name and a snippet of the title instead of just a number

It’s good that the old style links aren’t broken.

Funny how an America venture capitalist wants everyone else to subsidize his “venture”.

This one of the great features of Piefed!