Chat control is definitely going to pass eventually in my lifetime. Resiliency for secure and private communications will continue to develop. Anonymity will be needed too. Right now our governments instead of trying to inspire patriotism through improving living standards for the masses are focusing on information and communication control

PC gaming emulation on Android and hopefully someday high end regular Linux phones are going to be a big inertial multiplier for PC gaming. Performance for games that work isn’t far off from a Steam Deck from my testing on high end mobile phones. Compatibility and streamlining is still not great though. But a few more years at this rate and anyone with a phone as strong as a Snapdragon 8 gen 3 will have a pocket Steam Deck. PC gaming is going to grow a lot because of that

You can buy the cheapest brand and run a different OS than the companies software. Like I have a TerraMaster NAS. Use what you want on it

Grow up and learn basing your personality around what you don’t like makes you unlikable. Don’t spend eternity in teenage angst

Do you enjoy anything?

Nice to see the digimon comeback. This game is already a major stepup in production quality for digimon, the next is going to push towards persona quality I bet

The next Xbox if it exists will certainly sell worse than the X/S and with it will see the decline of gamepass subscribers

No better than PS+ Extra catalog. For streaming they’re worse than PS plus cloud, Amazon Luna, and GeForce Now. Gamepass exists for Xbox studio games that aren’t very popular

I have a 2 drive TerraMaster. I’m no advanced user of NAS’s. It was easy setup and use for me

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Foreign_Adversary_Controlled_Applications_Act

I knew this shit would be abused eventually. A year and a half and this publicly though. With how bipartisan support for this there was in congress and publicly, an instance of leaopards eating their face for those certain that safeguards would work/future bills would pass to improve the safeguards (how often does that ever happen? Post-9/11?)

React Native applications may be nice if that in any way ever helps popular media streaming applications make their way to normal Linux even just make it as applications distributed in like Steam for SteamOS

Qualcomm is too big and well established to be mediocre with day one Linux support

Those rumors about a new Xbox console next year, no way anymore. Too expensive. Series X is $650 and something more powerful than a PS5 pro would be a pre-buiod gaming desktop at Best Buy price level. If they’re trying to have their own Wii U level of sales failure, they’ll push out an $800 console and bomb out

Tried the first hour and it’s pretty nice. I did skip all the way to trails of cold steel the first go at the series and so far I like the gameplay differences. With this now I can just play the series in order as they already said they’re working on the second game

I googled Dr Slump to see if it at least looked closer to early Toriyama, Dr Slump looks a lot better. Looked up anything I could find on 70s Toriyama, that all looks way better than this

It’s an entirely different level of learning from fairly dry school and footage of massacres, slave mines/plantations-housing, exploring granular data of fatalities (age, civilian or freedom fighter), volume of rape, changes in life expectancy, images of indentured farmers dealing with famine as food is exported. Not a single country tries hard to convey just how terrible life was for generations of people under colonial rule. Not a single colonial country is treating their past leaders in their schools history books as they would treat Hitler when they should be. I regularly hear the delusion that post-WW2 was a peaceful transition for post colonialism as if Algeria and Vietnam weren’t millions of lives taken. That the decades after WW2 wasn’t western backed coup after coup, assassination after assassination. Economic isolation for not accepting colonial rule. Colonialism only ended to a degree because colonial powers could no longer afford to keep their colonies in the face of improving domestic resistance and competition for influence with the Soviet Union. The US and Russia are post-WW2’s most prominent imperialist. 3rd place would be France across southeast Asia to the present in Africa though that coercive power waning

All the watered down education in the US, France, etc didn’t stop the past 80 years of colonialism and it looks to me like countries in Europe want to be competitive imperial powers again now that the US isn’t being as much of a team player anymore. Social media is making people less patriotic. Less likely to join the military. Less likely to stomach the slaughter of war. Restrict social media and the results of your countries actions can be better kept low velocity spread. France has even better marketing than the US even before Trump. France has been the third worst offenders of colonialism and imperialism both violent and economic post-WW2. It would take years and years of dedicated classes to try to actually convey how evil the French and every colonial power was and how banal their populaces were to that evil and generally still are to this day. It’s not only the US with a sanatized history, uneducated population, subject to decades to centuries of propaganda and a warped view of how their country operates overseas

They don’t want kids to know too well how their government operates domestically and internationally. Don’t want kids to learn history much better than the watered down version they learn in school

That’s the kind of nonsense patent that when it’s finally challenged in court by someone that can afford to stand up in court, it’ll get struck down

Everyone should probably just assume that even if this fails this go around, it will succeed eventually and keep building and adopting tools to circumvent these rules

Fast forward to July 2025, Denmark reintroduced Chat Control as a top legislative priority on its first day of Presidency. While keeping the Belgian approach of limiting scanning to URLs and multimedia files, many experts feel that the text goes back to where it started – it reintroduces the indiscriminate scanning of unknown CSAM material, too.

The Danish proposal introduces new obligations for all messaging services operating in Europe to scan users’ chats – even if they’re encrypted – in the search for both known and unknown CSAM material.

Crucially, the mandatory scanning is expected to occur directly on the device before messages get encrypted, targeting shared URLs, pictures, and videos. Only governments and military accounts are excluded from the scope of the bill.

First day and that’s their most pressing concern, scanning everyones communications. This is EU, but after the Snowden leaks I knew it would all just be made legal since it was public knowledge then. Now trending towards making it all indiscriminate and mandatory. For a long time now I’ve come to always expect surveillance powers to eventually be abused. Damn near anyone paying attention knows this isn’t about child porn