JuxtaposedJaguar @ JuxtaposedJaguar @lemmy.ml

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She’s Linux-adjacent :P

Freya Holmér is great.

Are trans women ok?

I don't like unrealistic optimism, but I think there are several reasons to be optimistic. TL;DR: enough US citizens would revolt to make it a winnable war against them, and Trump would back down first.

Not only would the idea of fighting the most powerful military on earth cause hesitation, but they’d be doing it from across the ocean where the us would no doubt have their navy stationed with nuclear submarines, destroyers, and air craft carriers.

That's if everyone in the US military complies with the order, and I think a lot of people would refuse. I also think a lot of citizens would start fighting their own military. It only takes 3.5% of people fighting from within an institution to destabilize the whole thing.

I've continually been surprised at what MAGAs are willing to believe (and then stop believing) and I'm sure that a lot them would buy into the new narrative, but it would be such a blatant and self-destructive abuse of power that a non-insignificant number of them would have to wake up. There are also so many individual actors in right-wing media that a few of them are bound to speak out before they get shut down. Just imagine if someone like Tucker Carlson did a 5 minute address saying "I've supported everything Trump does but this crosses the line."

if Russia is going to become more aggressive, which Trump is obviously empowering him to do, Europe needs to worry about itself.

Other countries have a self-interest in keeping foreign dictators in check; while it's true that fighting the US would make other NATO members more vulnerable to an attack from Russia, the alternative of letting Trump literally go insane with power would be more likely to end in a nuclear apocalypse.

We are right next to them as well meaning they would be able to take us with almost no trouble. So nato would now have to conquer the us not just defend against it.

If the US decides to Blitzkrieg us, yes--at first. As someone who lives within a 1h drive of the US border, I'd be fucked, but the US wouldn't be able to keep that territory; see all the above points. I also think Trump would start a military war in the same way that he started an economic war: announce that he's going to do it, get an unexpectedly strong announced retaliation from Canada and blowback from within his party, delay the implementation, and finally reduce the scope. During that time Canada and NATO would be able to prepare.

We'd definitely lose on our own, but we're part of NATO. If the US invades Canada, every other NATO member would come to our defense.

If the climate keeps getting warmer then huge parts of Canada will become temperate and farm-able, while places that are currently temperate will become too hot to live in or farm.

I don't care how far behind they are with AI because I don't want AI on my phone anyway.

I hope Apple releases some open source AI tooling to re-gain good will. Would love to see some more competition in the AI space.

That's literally never going to happen. Closed-source proprietary stuff is their MO.

If Siri is enabled, then the default behavior of long-pressing the power button brings up Siri instead of turning off the device. IIRC you can disable that behavior without having to disable Siri, but there's no way to set the "action button" to open Siri; if you want a Siri button, it needs to be the power button.

Why would Craig be any better? Modern macOS and iOS are far from innovative.

However, someone who writes articles for a platform called “Apple Insider” is likely to have some level of stock in the company.

That would be Apple Insider Trading.

Our team will handle all the paperwork and finer details of filing insurance claims and police reports to provide you a smooth transition of ownership and plausible deniability.

That should be higher up on the page, since that'd be the primary value of that service.

Honestly I'm surprised Elon hasn't killed the SLS and given SpaceX that contract; it's one of the few things that would both benefit him and increase the efficiency of the government. He's probably scared of Boeing suiciding him.

I neither want to become part of the USA nor part of the EU, although between the two, the EU is obviously preferable.

Yeah, I read that and I think it's a weak justification.

And they had this revelation and newfound sense of caution immediately after their main source of income was jeopardized? And they made this change at the exact same time they started forcing users to give them a worldwide commercial license to everything you enter through Firefox? Sure, Jan.

Apple is already displacing Google's monopoly.

...The reason being that they can't legally claim they don't sell your data.

The fact that they think they need to cover their ass about selling user data is concerning enough.

I think most people would be happy if the Mozilla CEOs "only" got a few hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. The current pay is literally millions.