The problem is not an “AI company” but Google being evil and AI making scamming so much more efficient. I had the habit of using youtube as music player in the background (with ublock of course). This has become incredibly miserable and I finall freed myself from that and rather pay qobuz a decent amount of money from now one, for much better quality and much more money actually ending up with the artists and no scam BS like the above. Oh and also active removal of AI music slop, in case it even makes it there.

I find this comparison highly offensive. For all the monster Hitler was, he was objectively a vastly better architect than Trump (and also had some basic understanding and knowledge of that matter) and while his preferred style was, to the surprise of no one, thoroughly fascist, it had proper proportions. Not that I am a fan of fascists or their architecture but just look at the images in this thread. The one building has sound composition and proportions make sense and the other is a wacky McManson on steroids, on the inside and the outside.

What assertion? Hard to respond to you when you are entirely unspecific. Much of what I wrote were no assertions but simple facts. The US literally threatened to annex territory of a NATO ally for example.

I was being polemic. It is like saying Putin drinks the blood of young Russians. Yes, he doesn’t do that literally but he is sending them to the slaughter house just the same.

Believing Trump is a Russian controlled agent is, acknowledging that Trump is deeply corrupt and bribed by foreign dictatorship is not (not necessarily Russia, but in general). The bribing is happening out in the open for everyone to see. Also just judge Trump by his actions. US support for Ukraine has been scaled down dramatically and largely has been taken over by Europe. Not only that Trump tried to bully Europe into stopping the support as well. Of the stuff that is supposedly still going to Ukraine, much is actually in question. At the same time Trump pushed repeatedly for a “peace deal” that was almost word to word what Russia demanded from Ukraine.

Why Trump is doing that doesn’t really matter, there are plenty of reasons explaining that without him being a Russian agent.

That is false. The US followed a clearly different strategy before. Yes, it has slowly shifted indpendently from Trump but the outright hostility towards Europe does not serve any US interests. It is entirely self harming for the US. Not investing into European strategic assets is one thing, openly attacking Europe and threatening with annexation of territory of allied nations, making it clear by actions (not merely talking) that one consideres Russia more of an ally than the EU, is an entirely different thing.

Only if you take that without a grain of salt. The “Krasnov” story is obviosly not trustworthy but it is obvious that the Trump administration is a lot friendlier towards Russia and a lot more hostile towards Europe as a whole and Ukraine in specific, than the previous administration. Doesn’t matter why Trump and his administration is doing that, the actions speak for themselves. Might be as simple as that Maga’s interests and those of Moscow just align on a lot of things.

If you operate that within the EU, you better know what you are doing, hope it never gets leaked, or don’t do half of what you are implying here.

What’s an “Alligator Alcatraz”, are they talking about the swamp Gulag?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnur_Mussayev#Krasnov

The problem is when the tech oligarchs own the government.

And then Krasnov turned down Ukraine’s offer to help with modern drone warfare.

Late stage Weimar Republic vibe.

The first amendment is just (on) a piece of paper. Will it be enforced against a constitution breaking executive? That is the question.

The Pocophone F1 was 300 EUR when it launched. Sure you can buy used phones for much cheaper than new ones. If you want to get a cheap Sailfish OS device, get a used Sony Xperia 10 II for 50-80 EUR. Yes, it is a tad worse in performance for the CPU (and much worse for GPU, in case you care about that) than the F1 but there goes your “10x” difference, when one is not comparing apples and oranges. Or you go for a community supported phone like the Mi Note 10, which you can find for 120 EUR, comparable SOC performance but much better screen and dramatically better camera than the F1.

Btw how is the camera functionality, VoLTE functionality, battery status, etc on such a device with postmarketOS? Honest question, because according to postmarketOS documentation, there is not a single device that is listed to have all the basic functionality, other than the Librem, a device with weak hardware sold today for 799 USD.

Tinkering is not black and white but a spectrum. That is why LFS, Gentoo, Arch, Fedora, Linux Mint etc all have their justification to exist. Sailfish OS gives a a pretty functional phone out of the box but allows you to tinker around if you want to, not to the extend a Postmarket OS would but UI aside, you can get down deep and dirty if you want to, as far as I understand. In a similar way, I don’t think one should get Sailfish OS over postmarketOS, there is a place for both. That Sailfish OS costs you 10 times more, necessarily, is just false information.

The premium of the new Jolla Phone, over Chinese competition is maybe 2-3 fold. New vs New. Look at other dedicated Linux phones and that is quite common, simply because small production run phones can never compete with Chinese mass production phones on price.

The license is a one time payment for third party models. All of them are already aging. The C2 was a white label phone for Sailfish OS, the first dedicated Sailfish OS device in years and does not require any license nor does the new to be launched “Jolla Phone”. Most people ordered the Jolla Phone at 580 EUR. Whatever “postmarketOS-capable” phone you were thinking about but for 58 EUR it can’t be that great. Even cheaper Chinese competition equivalent hardware will cost around 200 EUR. The only Dimensity 7100 device I could find at this point was 260 EUR or so, with a worse screen.

I do agree that they should go fully open source but they are at least gradually opening up those parts that are still closed (mostly UI and some few stock apps). Sailffish OS is light years from mainstream adoption, at the very least. But that is not the game they are playing. This is a niche product for people that either want to get away from Google or Apple, or some that actually like the fairly unique UI of Sailfish OS or like to tinker with its Linux base (whatever you think about Sailfish OS and its not entirely open nature, it is still the most functional Linux based alternative out there, when it comes to functioning as a phone, including VoLTE, camera etc, at least in Europe).

Jolla has been years out of the wheel when it comes to own hardware. The crucial thing they need to prove now is that they are capable of delivering what they announced at maybe 15-20k sales.

In the EU VoLTE seems to work with most providers but there are issues with some providers. I think the sailfish OS forum has a compatibility list. Not sure how the situation is in the US as, this does depend on providers.

… or Volkssturm.

I am not, i should have made it clearer above by saying “just a fine”

If multiple (or even countless) people die because of your grave negligence (which is the most benevolent way to look at it) I don’t think the appropriate judgement is a fine.