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I know it feels good, playing a tough guy on the internet, but this kind of attitude has a counterproductive effect on getting out of a crisis of democracy. You’re lost deep in magical thinking. I know this from experience of a US vassal that served as a laboratory for what conservatives are playing out in the rest of the world currently.

You're conflating your opinions with things that I give a fuck about.

If you aren’t interested in hearing opinions different to your own you might opt to write a blog and store it on a piece of paper under a secret rock.

That explains the wall to wall happiness, and sky high presidential approval ratings.

Seems to be doing relatively fine for the amount of dumb stuff he does on daily basis. Elections are the only objective poll. Definitely not at the levels required to make people boycott companies based on gifts given by the CEO.

Nonsequitur unrelated to the topic at hand.

Americentrism at it’s best. Apple sells things outside of US, a shocker, I know. We also have other luxuries, like toilet paper and bicycles.

LLMs are being sold as a service already. I have utmost faith that someone will come up with some kind of snake oil (call it QPU tentatively) and say your phone is obsolete if it doesn’t have one.

You’re confusing your personal opinions with opinions of majority, and it’s the majority that Apple is concerned about because they create mass market devices to sell them. Last I checked Trump won the popular vote which is a bit of an indicator where the majority in the US is. Rest of the world isn’t that into US domestic politics.

There are easier ways - getting rid of modem, replacing OLED in favour of LCD, maybe even non-metal shell. They won’t cut RAM because it’s required for „AI” and we’re still in that hype cycle.

One good thing to come out of AI bubble is that all iPhones have at least 8GB of RAM.

Given that Germany has pretty strong laws on what goes on social media, isn’t that a recipe for countless fines? Or is that in preparation of the next AfD government who’ll likely try to get rid of them?

In the absence of a perfect solution this imperfect one is better than nothing, regardless of who’s doing it, no?

It won’t break all known encryption, it’ll pretend to.

In a joint statement, leaders from the European Commission, France, Italy, the UK, Poland and Finland said “the current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations”.

Looks like it’s less of backing and more admission of defeat. Putin was „right” to put this many people through his meat grinder because he got what he wanted - unsustainable terms for Ukraine which will destabilise it eventually and lead to becoming a puppet state again.

Also disturbingly close to a symbol used by Eastern European nazis: