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Google is such a fucking joke of a company. They release multiple products that do the exact same thing regularly, have apparently no capability for long-term planning, and are just shoving AI into everything even if it makes the end product worse. Why would I purchase a Google product when anything that hasn’t existed for 10+ years is likely going to be axed in a couple years? The cherry on top is the idiot execs giving themselves raises for their shit performance while laying off workers.

It makes absolutely zero sense to require someone to pay child support when the sole reason you took their kids away was because they didn’t have enough money for housing.

I personally don’t think that’s really feasible unless they provide smartphones for every citizen themselves, and even then people like my grandparents would basically not be able to live given that they only barely know how to message me (and even that they do wrong sometimes, so…). They can certainly make it difficult without a smartphone, but they likely can’t completely eliminate physical IDs until those issues are gone.

EDIT: also, if that does become an issue at some point, you can keep your smartphone off unless necessary and don’t use a simcard. When on keep it in airplane mode. If you need a connection to use digital ID, do it briefly over wifi (since presumably most places you’d need digital ID would have wifi) and then turn it back off. While not perfect, this would probably be good enough for most people.

While it’d be difficult, you can usually make do with a browser or visiting in-person (e.g. with a bank, they need to know who you are anyway, so visiting in-person is mostly just an inconvenience). Physical ID is likely still going to be a thing for the forseeable future since at minimum there are bunch of old people who basically don’t know how to use smartphones (or at least use them well).

Messaging is more problematic. You could probably use a combination of something that functions on your computer and a dumb phone for urgent things (although since texts/calls wouldn’t be E2EE, you’d have to assume the govt knows the contents of the convo).

IMO it’s entirely feasible just quite inconvenient.

If govts actually start making stuff like grapheneos illegal, maybe I’ll just stop using smartphones. If they’re gonna be that blatant about wanting to be a surveillance state, then I see little reason to help them.

I think if they kept the features but made it close everything by default it’d be pretty good (asking if you want to save before closing). I basically don’t see a real reason to keep stuff open with apps like this, honestly.

I can’t wait for the AI future.

I’m ngl this looks somewhat useful minus the copilot crap. Having lists and headers and so on are useful for actually taking notes.

I still don’t fucking understand how people voted for someone who sounds they’re having a stroke 24/7.

My dude, the chips aren’t manufactured in the US. If the tariffs don’t apply to the chips that are inherently imported from outside the US since basically only TSMC and Samsung make them at this point, then there is no tariff at all. Companies in the US import the chips, then use the imported chips as part of their products. All the companies in the US do is assemble the imported parts (and sometimes not even that).

EDIT: Ah, there was a miscommunication. I think we’re both saying the same thing at this point. Well, mostly the same, since this doesn’t really help US companies and just drives up prices for everything.

I’m convinced you’re a troll/bot. That is not in fact how tariffs work since the chips are not made in the US.

Looking into it, the US implementation goes down into the components, so yes. Except, I believe it’d be $50 chip @ 100%, other components at whatever tariff rates they may have, and then the 15% per-country/region tariff applies to all of it on top. So if the other components have no tariffs, it’d be $172.50. I’m now wondering how expensive everything would end up if you have tariffs on materials as well.

In any case though, it becomes ludicrously expensive no matter what because you’re at most dodging the 15%.

EDIT: You can also dodge some of the tariffs if some percentage of the product is made in the US. I wonder if you’d be able to dodge the chip tariff if the materials for it were partially sourced from the US. If possible, that’d probably be cheaper for companies than actually trying to manufacture chips here.

EDIT 2: Actually your calculation may be right, I’m having a hard time finding how they’re actually meant to be calculated. Admittedly it seems a bit weird to me that the rate would override the country-specific rate and thus be the same for chips from the EU and China, but I suppose none of this makes sense in the first place.

Pretty sure that’s their point. Say a product costs $100 dollars with no tariffs. If you import the product from the EU with a 15% tariff, it’s now $115 with tariffs (assuming no tariffs importing the chips into the EU). If you manufacture the product in the US, you need to pay 100% tariffs for all the chips. Obviously the impact depends on how much the chips cost relative to the entire product, but if the chips are half the cost ($50), then with a 100% tariff you’re now paying $150 for the product manufactured in the US.

I’ve never used them, but if you want streaming, you can use Moonlight/Sunshine. It’d be very cool if a project integrated everything together, so you could choose whether to download the games or stream them from the server.

I have pretty much zero sympathy for people like this. Karmic retribution if he actually gets deported.

Just watch as the media and idiot politicians focus on them being trans instead of being a fucking Nazi.

Tbh kinda explains why they use Brave

Given that most of the people I know who go to (or went to) what you’d call moderate churches also voted for Trump, I’d say your view is at best flawed.

I haven’t really checked since I’ve never needed to, but I imagine there’s a way to report that they’ve harassed you, which presumably would be worse for them.