But they prefer the right over the left because of taxes and regulations. I wonder when companies will flip, because they cannot handle the business impact of bullshit decisions like random tariffs or lawsuits over made up controversies any longer.

I became way more productive. Cleaned up and organized everything. Just made me go.

Yeah, I don’t disagree with that. Just wanted to highlight that strong software projects are not enough.

I work in SW for a device vendor and I see how much communication there is between OS, vendors and everything in between.

Probably Egypt. Went to Hurghada and from the first moment I got there I was being scammed. The aggressiveness and directness of the scamming is something I’ve never seen and I’ve been almost everywhere. Only Morrocco comes close to it. I usually take it easy, but there one cap driver had me literally screaming at him for some fucking humanity. 75% of the people there see you as nothing more than a walking and breathing sac of money to be squeezed.

Never again.

You need hardware vendors on board or you’ll get nowhere.

Well, you can’t expect the whole net of dependency to be torn down that quickly when it took decades to be established. Especially if you want a somewhat normal life.

Even before the latest acceleration into fascism I kept looking for alternatives of almost everything I use and the pain is something I’ve just got used to when it started with switching to Linux only over 20 years ago. Of course I still get envious when iPhone users just quickly AirDrop some pics, so I get why it’s not always easy to switch to alternatives.

But alternatives exist. Exploring them has become a lot more mainstream and they get more funding and support.

If your constituens are basically illitarate you can tell them whatever. As long as it sounds good.

Google’s restrictions would act through its Play Store. Custom ROMs don’t need to use GPS. So they could circumvent it.

I sold almost all my US stocks beginning of the year. Probably losing out on some short term gains.

“It’s all about the Trumps.”

Looks like that’s exactly what they’re getting.