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The impact as of right now is that everyone thinks they're being absolute assholes about it.

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If it's a small but loud group of unpleasant people on the internet, can't we just do what we've always done and ignore them?

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According to China's Coast Guard, Manila's ship had deliberately and dangerously approached a Chinese vessel in an unprofessional manner, forcing it to take control measures, including "boarding inspections and forced evictions."

Oh no! An inflatable boat has approached our large, well equipped vessel! Quickly, we must forcefully board this boat even though it is "dangerous and deliberate," and chop off their fingers! Then we will puncture their boat with our swords, that will show them!

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I always buy Christmas cake after Christmas, it's a steal.

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The current version of the OS has been built with open-source Android code to make Android apps compatible for the time being. It is designed to be used in all Huawei’s consumer products, including watches, televisions and vehicle systems, which makes it possible to integrate functions across devices. It is said to have 700m users and 2.2m developers.

The next version of Harmony is expected to drop all Android-linked code.

Harmony OS is an Android fork. Dropping all Android-linked code in an Android fork means removing almost all its code. I'm curious to know if Huawei have indeed developed their own OS, like Samsung's Bada, and if it really contains no trace of Android.

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I had to double check when reading the article that this was indeed published by the Economist, particularly after this line:

As a private firm whose goals dovetail neatly with those of the Chinese government, it is becoming a model for how China thinks about innovation.

How do they know this, besides perhaps an official from the CCP making a statement about it?

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To give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they are trying to stay neutral by publishing articles from various points of view, including the CCP's.

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The picture says "No Smartphones Allowed." Doesn't seem entirely right...

BREAKING NEWS: EU Commission announces preliminary tariffs up to 38% on Chinese EVs (www.euractiv.com)

The EU will impose additional tariffs of 17.4% to 38.1% on electric cars produced in China, the European Commission announced on Wednesday (12 June), as preliminary results from its anti-subsidy investigation confirmed prices are being distorted by Chinese state support....

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Tariffs are the most straightforward way to deal with dumping. Hard to fault the EU for this approach.

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It will possibly be recriminalized by the end of the year.

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Could it be the new taskbar? It's the worst part of W11, I don't understand why they had to replace the old one.

De-googling and privacy on Sony xperia

I have been considering replacing my nearly 7 year old iPhone (although very reluctant) and I was checking for options. Really the only phone that caught my eye was the Sony xperia 1 V, but I found no information about how to degoogle and lock down the device. I really like the features and the built in camera apps, etc. Is...

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De-googling inherently causes functionality loss on Android because Google provides a lot of basic services via things like the Google Services Framework. It might be best for you to buy something cheap (secondhand Pixel?), install LineageOS, and then see how you like that before committing to something costly like an Xperia, especially since you're coming from iOS.

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It's likely because the developers are highly opinionated, and this is true even for topics they don't know very much about. See the entire discussion about implementing battery charge limiting in GrapheneOS. This makes for a lot of friction for people who would like to see more focus on usability in GrapheneOS as opposed to it being purely focused on security.

I stopped reading threads on their forums because the developers are so abrasive even though I still use the rom, because I don't mind the loss of usability compared to other roms. I can completely understand why there is a lot of negative sentiment around it though.

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It really does not. I use an external device connected via Bluetooth to achieve this on GrapheneOS, and others use home automation.

Edit: that thread isn't what I'm referring to. There was a larger one, perhaps on their github, with a link to a blogpost about why charge limiting "isn't necessary" being cited as the justification for why the rom doesn't have the feature. Either way, it's frustrating to read and best ignored.

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I WOULD IF I COULD

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Would it be impractical to open another window and align the window somehow?

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Sony's always kind of been uncool like this. Before, all PSN games weren't available on PC, so it didn't affect regions that couldn't register for PSN.

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It's almost as if cheaters ruin hyper competitive games like Valorant. How dare they try to keep the game free from cheaters. The nerve!

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Lemmy in general hates Windows.

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Are you doing it for your own sake, or for the relationship?

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Where I live, I consider nothing I do on my phone private at all, and I have to act accordingly. I would be in breach of Chinese law were I to do the same in China.

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I don't know if I've ever felt an urge to be marketed to.

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Sometimes it feels like most of my job nowadays is deleting code now.

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Adding Ahadns to this list: https://ahadns.com/

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You should've RMAed. Maybe you still can?

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Melty Blood might count. Does UNIB count? Skullgirls and Fighting Herds? There are a couple.

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Is there a privacy conscious keyboard that offers a floating mode like Swiftkey does? I'd love to switch.

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Will it let me control when my location is shared with Google? Where I am, my carrier already knows my name, full address, and credit card information.

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Bring back Windows Phone in the form of an Xbox Phone. Would love a third option to Android/iOS.

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