How will that help?

And how long did it stay around even though there was a better option? And how much more penetration into everyday life does WhatsApp have today? Right.

There is no other version. An electron app is a browser app.

That fails to acknowledge the force of the argument which is that tariffs affect innocent people.

Point is, it’s too important. If you fight back when you’re invaded, innocent people (like your own soldiers) will be killed. Consequences will be worse if you just roll over though.

Maximum pressure needs to be exerted on the US, through retaliatory tariffs, ceasing to recognise American intellectual property, and sanctions.

Competition and markets authorities are empowered to block acquisitions and it’s often high profile when it’s done due to an unfriendly power like china trying to do it. The USA is now a more aggressive power than china so acquisitions by US companies ought to be blocked by default.

This may mean less money flows from the US into the European acquired companies, but tough shit, this is too important.

We need to realise that the status quo is not what we had two years ago, because Trump changed it. He’s making the whole world poorer, and we can choose whether that poverty affects us monetarily (because we need to put money into replacing US tech) or more fundamentally - e.g. if he uses dependence on US tech to exert political control over European nations.

You just haven’t tried it with the latest release of this fork of Plasma.

At this point it’s less about technology and more about network effects. If I go to an open source cloud document service it’s mainly about the tech, but if no users are on your food delivery app, no restaurants will bother using it, so no users will come.

And if the us government were lending someone money to buy Nvidia, that may be relevant.

Dumb thermostats last for multiple decades.

Nobody thinks they’re incapable of working this out; we think theyre deliberately advertising something dumb that lay people won’t necessarily understand is dumb. Replying that they have smart engineers is stupid because no-one denied it - we just don’t think they used those engineers to come up with the idea.

I’m not sure he was thrilled about peanut butter choice, he basically had a breakdown

It’s the 4th largest country of origin for 4chan from what I can find. It doesn’t sound like you’re actually responding to what I said is being missed. Guess you don’t want to.

I think this sentiment is common but misses some important things. First: the UK is a big market of internet users, so losing it is not insignificant. Second: most people will not bother with a VPN because it’s annoying or costs money. Third: from the UK’s perspective, banning non-compliant sites is a good thing.

Recognising all this is important, because it’s part of resisting such censorious laws.

Potential arrest and imprisonment for failing to pay the fine, you mean? That would be a proven damage, wouldn’t it?

People don’t use Firefox because it doesn’t have a global tech company shoving it onto people

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Do you mean unlucky?

Bs, I have had so many sleep issues on laptops without Nvidia graphics cards.

The most recent issue I had was something inhibiting sleep that I couldn’t disable.

Before that it was being unable to decrypt the hibernate data on an encrypted disk.

Yeah, it can work, because it’ll trigger the recall of different types of input data. But it’s not magic and if you have a 25% chance of the model you’re using hallucinating, you probably end up still with an 8.5% chance of getting bullshit after doing this.

Ram usage today is insane, because there are two types of app on the desktop today: web browsers, and things pretending not to be web browsers.