Yeah 4% is big enough to get on Google’s radar as a threat. Especially if it’s trending upwards.

This is more than just a few tinfoil hats now.

And yes they’re working on locking bootloaders and also making AOSP less useful

Give them away? Not really, Samsung S series are the same pricing as pixels here where I live. The pixel a is different of course, it’s more like a Samsung FE.

It’s not, it’s easier to visualise one person out of a group of 25 than it is 4 out of a group of 100.

True but we were talking about Google here that’s why I mentioned Gmail. But yes with Microsoft it’s the same. And together they control most of the email accounts in the world.

Yes they are changing gdpr so that training AI on user data becomes “legitimate use” and won’t need opt in approval (though there may or may not be an opt out(

https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-commission-wants-wreck-core-gdpr-principles

Also many other principles are being removed. It’s basically a surrender to Trump and his big tech buddies

Well yeah but then the mails your receive from Gmail users or the ones you send to are still captured unless they have opted out. Which you can’t see without asking.

And the EU is dropping its protection against unwanted AI training 🤬🤬🤬

Haha especially the angry bird is genius

I often get situations where umount -f doesn’t even work :( Especially on a full desktop (not server) where some stuff is probably crawling the drive to make thumbnails or whatever.

I agree completely. I wish more people did :( In Holland in particular, neoliberalism is like a religion and nobody even questions it anymore.

I think 12h is a big deal, for business travelers it makes the whole trip pointless. And for leasure travelers it means paying for a really expensive sleeping cabin or “sleep” in an uncomfortable seat.

I agree the privatisation was a big mistake, also in healthcare, energy etc.

In Holland it seems to show them all but it probably differs by country.

One thing we are really really bad at in Europe is homogenising rail systems. Every country does its own thing, like voltage, signalling systems, sometimes even with their own gauge (e.g. spain). Only the high speed lines are fairly commonised.

There’s some projects going on like the ETCS safety system but they go at a snail’s pace because there’s so much installed base and design by a 25-country committee that are all trying to rope in their own industry ties is a slow process.

Also I read that in the US Amtrak gives priority to cargo trains even though laws exist expressly forbidding that, so that a 200km trip with no stops ends up taking 4 hours.

And still here in Europe they are not a meaningful alternative to the plane. Taking for example an Amsterdam to Barcelona is an exhausting 12-14h deal (almost 10x as long) and 5x more expensive.

What we need is express trains that go from A to B without stopping anywhere, avoiding city centres and constantly running max speed. If I’m going to Barcelona I don’t want to stop in Schiphol, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and various cities in France. There should just be a dedicated departure just for that (and judging by how many planes go back & forth daily these trains could certainly be filled). This would cut down on that exhausting travel time a lot. But we lack the high-speed network capacity for that. And won’t have it for at least 15 years even if they decided to build them now :( So planes it is.

Those iPhones made in China you mean?

America is not the only superpower and well on its way to no longer being the biggest one. Trump complains a lot about providing defense capability for Europe and other places but in return for that America got influence which is what made it a superpower.

Now that people are no longer trusting the US that influence will be reduced. Europe won’t be the next superpower but probably China will be. I’m not very happy with that but as a European I don’t really want us to be a superpower either.