Ah, ok. You haven’t read the article. They risk losing an election, as they use social media for self promotion and messaging. If theban twitter, they risk other being able to take their lead and they only have a small margin.

They could ban grok and fine Twitter.

No, this is traffic coming from google. Instead, they are using ai snippets to stop people going to websites. So, basically, stealing content. This is one area it might actually benefit the consumer, when accurate, a big if. However, they do it to keep people on their site, not to benefit the consumer.

Or easy to band them together?

It’s not that they don’t do anything to help it. They actively try to sabotage it.

A Linux launcher that can be used to launch games from the epic store and others. So, basically a workaround so you don’t need to use the epic launcher.

Adding to the other comment. You can install more than one launcher and try them out. You select which is your default launcher in the settings. Nova launcher was a great launcher that was highly customisable and many here had it and likely the paid premium version. Then it got bought out and enshittified. Lawnchair is an open source alternative that many like.

I assume it’s worse in cities than rural. Young people are more likely to be in cities and more likely to be lower paid at that point in their career.

Like, some of the cheaper countries are also the ones which are crowded and from location, seems likely they would be of poorer quality too.

Stats like this are helpful but don’t paint the whole picture.

If your point is more than everything online is virtual anyway, then you’re missing the point.

Your email being tied to your online identity doesn’t mean it’s part of your sense of self or personality. It means it’s ties to multiple online services that identify you partly by using it. If you change or lose your email, you lose those log-ins or, at least, it’s a pain to change them all.

Many places now use a phone number as an identifier instead of an email or as an alternative. Again, because it’s unique to you and unlikely to change. However, that makes you easier to track and susceptible to losing it being a loss of things beyond your phone number. This may include access to things like bank accounts or personal photos or friends contact details.

If your redirects are all through a central point, then that works, but if it’s done manually, that is a pain to change. So, if your provider changes or you move, it’s a pain. I’ve moved recently, but loved at my last house for 14 years. I still changed providers multiple times, from dsl to fibre-to-node, to fibre to home.

If my email had to change each time I might not have been so nimble. Unfortunately it’s a Gmail address and I am in the process of degoogling, so online mail has pros as well as cons!

Neither is your social security number nor your passport or dericing licence. Your email serves the same purpose online. Losing/changing it is extremely annoying as it’s tied to so many other services.

I don’t know anyone that uses isp based email that isn’t over 60. Tying your on,ine identity to a service provider that is location based makes no sense.

If I’m annoyed by an internet connection, it’s rarely due to one site. Sure, the onward connection is out of their hands, but they have choice of provider and deploy the local infrastructure.

I’d be looking at their recent declaration about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Cut them where it hurts his chances in the mod terms. Affordability all the way. He’s very much a let them eat cake kind of guy. But with big Macs.

When tariffs came in, I was hopeful they realised, finally, that they were dealing with a madman. However, they still negotiate as if he’s a rational actor. Express concern etc. Just like the Dems in the USA. He pays no heed to their comments or concerns. He only responds to power.

Tariff the shit out of USA tech. Stop buying USA weapons. Start allowing Ukraine to attack inside Russia. Cut off their supply of precious metals by working with Australia and Denmark (Greenland).

Show them you mean business by reducing tariffs on china in return for Chinese concessions. Start really penalisong any European or American companies that still do business in Russia.

Its mind boggling that they are doing practically nothing concrete.

It’s the USA precedent. If you CAN do it, then it’s fine. Might is right.

Which is why its so awful for everyone.

Which is the point of a united Europe. They should work together.

Like Charlie Kirk outrage?

I don’t condone any shooting or terrorist acts, but I wish there was half as much outrage for school shootings.

I was referring to both scraping to create the models and using the models to create infringing content.

I guess it depends on what kind of ipntheft you mean.