Hi Caitlyn! I do believe your supreme leader wants people like you to vanish, by shutting up, by being invisible or why not by dying.
I would normally say don't submit to any of that, you have our support. But in your case out of loyalty, maybe you should shut up, find a spot to lay low, and become invisible. You see I'm much nicer to you than him: I do NOT wish you to die!
You assume commercial apps will choose to lose the US market rather than comply.
Big techs are all ready to comply with chinese authorities in order to get in! Apple did. Facebook tried repeatedly to get a pass, offering complete access to chinese authorities.
Corporates will just do whatever makes more profit.
If you don't control it, you don't really own it. Modern cars can be remotely disabled on the whim of the car maker. Is it really YOUR car if someone else can cripple it or completely disable it without your permission?It's already the case with your phone if you use OEM OS: manufacturers can do pretty much whatever they want remotely.Now it's the turn of the computers: either it has a "compliant OS" (remotely controllable by 3rd party), or you will be cut off a growing part of basic use.
1.Few will work around it, which will make anyone working around it de facto suspicious.
2.That law can also be weaponized as an intended side effect: all dictatures have vague un-enforcable laws for the sole purpose of making sure anyone and everyone is somewhat guilty of something. That eases considerably arbitrary arrests: there WAS a lawful reason, every single time!
It's a matter of exposure and attack surface vs rewards for the attacker, and risk in companies are evaluated by the trio: freqency of occurrence, severity of occurrence (how large), severity of the occurrence. Banks can spend a lot because severity quickly gets very high in money.
What's the incentive again for the next gov to properly fund the system? Oh yes: they would have to say "sorry! shit happens! that's all because of the previous admin!!" and maybe throw one guy under the bus.
He would declare himself new Pope of the True Catholic Church.
There's a precedent to that: for a short while, there were 1 Pope in France (actually some of them are now called anti-popes) and 1 Pope in Rome. That said, I'm not sure how many catholics would get on Vance's side…
Look, they already decided they knew science better than scientists, they knew war better than military generals, they knew economy better than economists.
The kernel update issue on Android is going to be exactly the same for PostmarketOS and for the exact same reason: proprietary firmwares and/or drivers.
There is a huge ecosystem for Android today, including apps for so many EU companies, that they would have to re-develop to port them to Linux, or they'll just rely on Waydroid, so you still have to follow Google somewhat, and now you need to maintain both a GNU/systemd/Linux AND a compatibility layer with Android. With a fork of AOSP, you need only the last.
From a security and privacy standpoint, Linux was never designed to handle hostile apps designed to aquire as much data as possible. Android has a sandboxing system: an app cannot go and check what other apps you have. A Linux app can pretty much access everything on your system.
GrapheneOS adds on top of that storage and contact scopes: you can define a subset of each per app, and they won't see anything else.
In an ideal world, it wouldn't matter: everything would be opensource and developed in good faith. In the real world, you still have tons of malevolent apps that people will want to use anyway, so better take that in account.
When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.
No, he won't try to "cancel" the elections. First he's trying to rig them through gerrymandering and voters suppression.If that's not enough, he'll make crazy claims of frauds at different places, and will try to reverse some results.
But I can guarantee you that if none of that work, you'll have a showdown. He knows well what awaits him would the GOP lose and he's getting impeached. He won't accept the results.
Just note that he's currently using the war to kick out generals he deems not loyal enough.
To win elections, you need a candidate who brings voters from their side.
Trump brought the MAGA, an inconsistent alliance of all kind of deplorables. But they were all enthusiastic about him.
Neither Clinton nor Harris had that, neither did Biden by the way. Their main platform was to be not Trump, and the rest was the status quo.
At some point, the Dems need a candidate that voters actually support rather than pick as the least bad choice. So what will it be this time? Yet another meh-candidate backed by the "good" oligarchs or a candidate people actually want in power?
In one word: neoliberalism. It inevitably and inexorably leads to this.
Decades of defunding education, maximizing corporate profit at the expense of the workers at the bottom, making life worse and worse for commoners.
You end up with a large group of poorly educated, humiliated angry voters. And they'll get fooled easy by the most populist guy who "say it like it is" and offe simplistic solutions and scapegoats.
That's why it's happening. And US is not a single case. They just have a much higher power of nuisance.
Hi Caitlyn! I do believe your supreme leader wants people like you to vanish, by shutting up, by being invisible or why not by dying.
I would normally say don't submit to any of that, you have our support. But in your case out of loyalty, maybe you should shut up, find a spot to lay low, and become invisible. You see I'm much nicer to you than him: I do NOT wish you to die!