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Ehm, clearly they meant Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Help me Mr. Morgenthau

Sad. But also fair. Any situation, whether in or outside of their control, that affects a US citizen traveling there will be a PR spin to justify further action against them. Like the kid in a coma who US doctors said had no signs of mistreatment but who the FBI(?) encouraged the parents not to seek an autopsy for. Have a seizure and hit your head while there? The evil commies must have clubbed you.

Oh for sure, I live nowhere near those cities and I have people street racing outside my house every couple nights with souped up cars that have lights under 'em like it's Need for Speed. So far they haven't hit anybody, but it's only a matter of time. There's no way I'm the only one who knows or cares, but nobody ever stops them.

I still hear anecdotal reports from both places about cops refusing to do their jobs, potentially as retaliation. Taking hours to show up to an urgent scene, not following up on reports, etc. A few weeks ago, a teenager carjacked someone and zoomed right past the cops in Minneapolis, who didn't move a muscle. Their reasoning was that a car chase was more dangerous than just showing up to the kids house, which might be fair (except that they often stop to rob 5 or 6 people at gunpoint before they're done), but the perception is that they generally don't do anything in 99% of other youth car jacking cases that go on in the area.

I hope this is what it means, but since companies like Microsoft and even the people working on the Linux kernel have to follow US laws, I'm betting support for them will be 0 as far as drivers and such. When Russia-Ukraine started, some Russian contributors were banned from contributing to the Linux kernel with Linus Torvalds being a little smug about it all and saying it was out of his hands since the Linux Foundation is based in California. And if China is creating its own motherboards and other parts also, why would they work on support for combining their tech with US hardware?

It's true that you typically get more for your dollar when buying from just about any Chinese company like OnePlus, Xiaomi, etc. I mentioned it in my comment above though, the only issue is sometimes cell service bands that are/aren't built into the device. If you're in Europe, it's less of a problem. But it can suck in the US. It can also be a pain to activate on carriers if they don't officially support it. Some of them will refuse entirely, others will work fine, and some you will need to activate on a supported phone and then move the SIM to the new Chinese phone.

For example with cell phone bands, the Honor Magic 7 Pro (which doesn't make phones specifically for the US market) vs. the One Plus 12 (which has a US store and domestic/global version), and finally a Google Pixel 8 Pro (which has all bands for all networks).

I hate Pixels, but if network coverage and speed while traveling is important to you, there's no beating Google/Samsung/Motorola, etc. There will frequently be times where my partner has service on their Pixel in the middle of the woods while mine stopped working before we even entered the forest. In exchange, my phone doesn't overheat for no reason and has a significantly larger battery that charges in 20 min.

I have a OnePlus 12 and its my favorite phone I've ever had. I sometimes take the case off to admire it because I'm a freak and because its a beautiful emerald green.

Problem is that most of the Chinese companies don't include all the necessary cell bands on their phones for the US so service and/or speed can be a little worse or very significantly worse than something from Google or Samsung.

But you get a device that usually has higher resolution and better overall specs for the same price.

OnePlus, despite the only company to sell domestic versions of their phones, still removed some bands from the 13 series that were in the 12.

I hate the US cellphone monopoly.

It's not just me??? Why does Arrowhead taste so uniquely fucking weird?

I just started up a Morrowind game too!

I've played it a ton before, so I used the automated modlists for OpenMW this time and chose the Expanded Vanilla. I never really modded the game because I thought it was dumb to manually drag and drop 100s of mods in a certain order back in the day and modders didnt approve of adding their stuff to premade mod packs. So I just used to use maybe one broad texture upscaler and natural leveling mod.

I've turned off some of the gameplay changes, like an air dash that hurts you if youre out of stamina. I guess meant to discourage spamming jump. Its just silly though. Other mods are pretty cool though and I'm looking forward to the expanded content.

I'll make it to Tamriel Rebuilt eventually.

I get negative or at least uncomfortable reactions from people if I mention it in public. Like if we're talking about TV shows and they ask what streaming service something is on, I just say "oh, I don't know, I pirated it" and they just kind of go "oh..." and clearly think I just told them something highly illegal.

We just need a forever expanding attribution list, even if we get rid of copyright.

X was created by Dave, Y was created by Eliza based on work by Dave, Z was created by Joaquin based on work by Dave and Eliza and so on.

Academics already do this when citing sources, just make everyone else do it too.