Why today would any international PhD students WANT more than 4 years in the USA? Get your degree then . . . GTFO

Or just never study in the USA at all . .

Thanks for that.

If by “for a while” you mean “until I’m dead” . . then yea, sure. Any other definition . . no chance in hell.

Ironic . . as I use a burner phone when traveling to the USA.

I drive an MGS5 EV - MG is a British brand, but it’s manufactured by SAIC Motors. Every bit a Chinese company. I traded a VW ID.4 for it . . and WHAT AN UPGRADE. Better across the board - faster charging, longer real world range, much, MUCH better software . . . all for 25% less than the ID.4.

Jim Farley is right to be terrified . . . Both the American and the German legacy car companies are screwed.

https://www.mojeek.com/

100% UK based and unlike Startpage and Qwant . . .uses 100% it’s own crawlers.

Be warned: you will NOT get the same results as Google, Bing, Startpage . . Sometimes that’s helpful . . sometimes not.

You’ll need to be of a certain age to remember this . . but for those of us who are . . THANK YOU!

I wasn’t going to go THAT far . . . but I can’t disagree with a word you wrote. Take my upvote.

Add me to your beta list . .please!

His technical chops are without question. However he has been so over the top obnoxious to MANY other leaders in the privacy space. He really hurts his own cause by refusing to acknowledge there are other threat models that can be solved with other answers.

Didn’t you notice the April 1 release day???

Another big upvote for Metrolist. IMO its the best of them.

Has the GrapheneOS team ever, once, been supportive of ANY other custom ROM initiative? I ask this as someone with both a GOS Pixel10 and a FairPhone 6 running /e/ on my desk this week.

For as good as their security approach is, their constant shit talking of others also making efforts to free us from big tech helps no-one.

Oh the irony of using the phrase “blessed OS’s” coming from the GOS camp.

Clearly the writer is a firm believer in TINA (there is no alternative). I am old enough and lucky enough to have witnessed one alternative in person. I was able to visit the USSR in the 1980’s and work in Moscow in the 1990’s. This not a plug for Soviet style Communism, just an observation on (then) Muscovites’ daily lives. As the expression went “we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us”, their job did not define their life. Far from it. Prior to the collapse, their lives were defined largely by their clubs, their sports, their after-work activities. Chess clubs, photography clubs, knitting clubs, running clubs, . . . there were clubs for EVERY activity you can think of. If you asked “so what you do” . . . the answer was almost always a list of these activities . . .not their “job”.

Sure UBI might turn some people into stay at home, 24/7 web surfing, X Box playing hermits. But humans do have a strong social drive . .and I suspect after the novelty of not NEEDING to work wore off . . . an explosion of social activities would follow.

/e/ OS is not a Linux based OS. It is a fork of LineageOS, which is a fork of AOSP. I run /e/ on a FairPhone 3+.

In the age of a 1TB SSD costing $50 . . . frankly who cares. Flatpak’s are the easiest to deploy Linux packages . . . a perfect pairing for Mint - an OS designed to “just work”.

There is a word for the future you are describing: exterminism.

Sadly the world appears to be heading that way. This is the most bleak future described in one of my favorite books- Four Futures:Life After Capitalism

It’s a quick read . .and highly recommended. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/59-four-futures

It appears you are confusing moral absolutism with moral universalism. I stand by what I wrote.

You rather made my point - everything about morality is relative. There are no moral absolutes - it is up to your (and my) prospective. For the record, I do wrestle with my employment there . . . yes, we did stop many, many Russian tanks. But I also suspect other systems have been used in Gaza by the IDF.

As for speeding and taking out Musk - 100%, sign me up for that moral tradeoff right now!!!

Everything is relative to your prospective.

I worked 10 years for a major EU defense contractor. Mostly on civilian projects, but not exclusively. For many years, I hid my employer from acquaintances & friends - when asked, I would just say “I work in software”. After I left that company, one of the anti-tank missile systems I had a very (very) small part developing started to tear the fuck up Russian tanks across Ukrainian farm lands.

I don’t hide that history today.