The problem is that it's becoming less and less of a possibility, and more and more of a hassle, since everyone else, including our dear elected governments build shit with the expectation you engage in the big tech ecosystem.

I've been using e/OS, which is an Android fork maintained by a Danish university, so Google stops messing with my phone. I've made the switch after realising that when I wanted to restart the phone (was urgent at the time) the power button has been remapped to AI.

Yet, after moving to Denmark, I realized that the government ID service specifically disallows that fork and enforces using Google Android. The Danish government trusts Google over leading Danish universities.

Living without that ID thing on my phone would be possible but would require me to do tons of personal appointments with different companies, including banking, phone contracts, internet, public transit and so on.

There are great OPFOR scenarios made for ARMA 3 as well. I really liked the Chinese ones where you got to fight Americans as Chinese specops on Tanoa/Fiji.

Want to bet it's one of the guys on the helicopter that abducted him?

And he totally maintained a proper professional distance as agreed.

In front of the court when he got handed that restraining order.

How rough are those seas? Normandy was specifically done over rough seas to gather more of the surprise factor. Also, rough weather may protect against drones and stuff.

IDK much about this though, these are legit just questions.

I think it's more that the megacorp business model is fundamentally incompatible with making good video games. Their only reliable competitive advantage is money, they can spend more on a single project. But if they spend so much, they can't go as risky as indies go. A ton of indies publish shit games, it's just that some are absolute gems.

Point is, AAA games can only match indies in originality if they are okay with tanking the IP and the studio just to make something original. But since they are megacorps, they will never be okay with that. The also can't amortise the risk over a lot of small projects, because then they lose the ability to outspend indies and would have to compete with them directly.

It's like a sort of inverse economies of scale.

The "rewording ban" shows pretty clearly that it's not about the content, but that they don't want their precious dataset poisoned with LLM slop so they can better sell it to the slop generators.

“people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once” as a result of insufficient water pressure

How do US toilets work? It should be independent of water pressure, there is a tank of water that gets prefilled, right?

"The union made non-negotiable demands far in excess of what can be accepted if we are to remain competitive as a business,"

My dude, you literally have no competition! Your management bankrupted them by doing the same shit there that you are doing here! You know, before you all managed to fail upwards.

If you manage to be insolvent while running one of the largest monopolies on the planet, you should get checked out by a doctor, because it takes more than either base grade stupid or base grade malicious to be able to do that.

Also, isn't the whole reason Boeing is in hot water since they can't build shit right the fact they tried to fuck over the unionized workforce by building another factory in the Deep South, but the shit that comes out of there is falling apart? Seems to me, they need the union, not the other way around.

He's really hurting in his ego about his lack of crowds, isn't he?

At this point, using Firefox and an ad blocker does more for the climate than paper straws or recycling.

Even with ad blocking, half of consumer internet traffic is ads. Google is contributing to increasing this ratio, where most traffic on the internet will be stuff the client did not request, contributing more to climate change than Bitcoin - not that this makes crypto look better, they are just a useful milestone to compare to with the press they get.

And this doesn't include the idiotic AI shit they do.

Could they get out of kids pants and get to fixing the country?