The phone looks nice but last time I tried Sailfish OS (like 2-3 years ago) it was extremely limited. It lacked even basic things like multi-language keyboard with autocomplete. You had to pay extra to run Android apps. If it’s more usable now it could be an interesting option.

US stopped being a democracy long time ago. People didn’t have real constitutional rights for decades now.

The arguments about Europe following the same path are pretty weak though. Using US technology is not really the same letting corporations set the rules. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think EU is doing that well. Corpos definitely have to much power and will try to take over everything but I think we still have a chance. US is lost.

There’s little about surveillance in Chat Control. It’s very limited and measured legislation. If that’s the worst we will have in EU it’s pretty amazing.

Really? I have it running right now with 0% CPU usage and around 100MB of memory. Something’s wrong with your setup.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

Oh, I see what’s going on here.

I live in Europe so I’m looking at this from European perspective. While I think I don’t live in a completely just society I think it’s pretty good, it can be improved and I would like for it to survive. So I think Europe should have weapons and we should have best engineers possible working on them. While their weapons are sometimes used for immoral things I don’t blame the engineers for it.

You’re looking at this from American perspective. You think your society is evil and it should be destroyed. You don’t think it should be able to defend itself at all and all engineers helping to preserve it are morally corrupt.

You’re looking at this from a perspective or a Nazi engineer in 1938 while I’m looking at it from a perspective or a Polish engineer in 1938.

So you’re taking the most extreme case and applying it to all arms companies while I treat as… well… extreme case.

I have a friend in Poland that works for a company providing components for weapon manufacturers. Some components they make were found in Gaza. Do I think he’s immoral and should quit? No, I think those components are necessary to protect Poland from Russia and I don’t think Poland should be destroyed. He can’t decide were those components will end up. Would I say the same about Israeli engineer? No.

It’s really not that complicated. We have two “issues”.

1. Engineers making weapons
2. Weapons being used to kill innocent people.

There is an easy solution to both: don’t make weapons. That’s a stupid solution because if your country doesn’t have any weapons it will be invaded by other country and innocent people will die.

You know this easy solution is stupid so you say we should only “reduce” the number of weapons. But this doesn’t solve any issues. Engineers still make weapons and those weapons can still be used to kill innocent people. You just saved some money which is completely different topic entirely.

So now you’re stuck in a loop claiming that your stupid solution will solve issue 2 (which it won’t) while ignoring issue 1 entirely.

The real “solution” is to not use weapons to kill innocent people. “Issue” 1 is not an issue at all. Engineers making weapons are necessary. “Issue” 2 has to be solved by the entire country by electing better politicians. Engineers don’t have more power here than farmers or doctors.

Obviously.

I have literally no idea what kind of point you think you’re making.

I can see that. Let me explain that in even simpler way.

You say:

Me: Making guns.

You: “Engineers making guns bad! Make less guns!”

Me: Make 1 gun instead of 3.

US Army: Take 1 gun and kill brown children.

You: “Engineers making guns bad!”

I say:

Me: Making guns.

US Army: Takes guns and kills brown people.

Me: Army bad!

P.S. I don’t work for arms company. I was just making a point.

You do realize that if you “reduce” spending you will still have arms companies making weapons and engineers will work for them? I don’t think it’s that complicated…

You spend a lot on weapons. If you reduce it you will spend less on weapons but you will buy some weapons.

Like imagine you’re spending $100 a week on alcohol. You decide it’s bad for you and you reduce it. Now you’re only spending $30 on alcohol. You’re still buying alcohol. You spend less but you still buy it so someone will still make it.

Hope that helps.

Great, so let’s disarm unilaterally. I’m sure Russia and China will do the same.

Such a childish take…

Where did you get my desire for blood from? All I’m saying is that the same arms companies make weapons that fall in Gaza and that protect Europe. You can’t have one but not the other. It’s up to politicians to decide how to use those weapons, not engineers.

There will still be people working for arms companies. All of them will deserve hell?

The good guys. Define them as you like.

Here’s a great idea: let’s not produce any weapons and disarm unilaterally. What could go wrong?

This guy is exaggerating.

"The text aims to make the temporary “Chat Control 1.0” regulation permanent. "

This already passed in 2021. This guy is sensationalizing it like it’s opening new possibilities to tech companies while it’s been a law for 4 years already. If companies wanted to scan messages they would be doing this already.

Age verification and bans for teenagers are a separate issue completely. Many countries are working on this already independently. While I don’t agree with this personally I have to admin there are many good reasons to do it. A lot depends on the details of the regulation and this guy is not a good source of opinion on it. I will try to read it and post a more reasonable take.

It will let people create new wallpapers.

Given these positive signals, we would welcome contributions

Poor Google doesn’t have the manpower to implement it. They can only accept contributions from volunteers.

I’ve checked and on a rooted phone to app directly changes /etc/hosts. Without root it works as a VPN so has the same issue as TC. I’m on GrapheneOS which can’t be rooted.

One option I liked was iode OS. It has a build in tool like Tracker Control which doesn’t use VPN. I might go back to it.

Thanks, I will check it out.