The likes of RIAA and MPAA are probably still lobbying as always. Also don't forget the Internet Archive is being sued by record labels over copyright.
More than anything, people might be too distracted to defend IP related freedoms right now with all the other issues.
I think he's saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.
Thing is, the list doesn't make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it's called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What's the problem?
Yup. With shows and movies it's the other way around. Netflix was already losing a lot of the third party content I liked and then they pulled the whole "have to live in the same house" thing. Instant cancel.
I do have Apple TV+ nowadays, but only because I have the Apple One package that gives you Music, TV+, Arcade and storage space for a bit more than any of the services separately. TV+ is also nearly all originals and there are a lot of good ones. They have much less content, but much better quality to garbage ratio. I've watched some shows 3 times over. Not a service I'd likely pay for separately, but the bundle deal is just an excellent value proposition for me.
Everything else I torrent. Indiscriminately. Hollywood blockbuster? Torrent. Estonian movie? If I missed it in the cinemas, torrent.
Absolutely. But at the same time, the base game is not all that approachable. Remake Morrowind with a proper combat system but leave the rest of the gameplay as is. I mean the lack of quest markers and everything. It's awesome the way it is. I'll buy several copies.
I must admit I've never reamly benchmarked any voice chat application. One advantage Jitsi does have is the ability to do p2p calls, saving a couple dozen milliseconds of transfer time compared to going through the server. But how fast is the software itself? No clue.
I've got that in my group chats in Telegram but since we should all be moving to FOSS and decentralization, have you considered setting up Jitsi? It integrates with Matrix too. That already pretty much gets you most discord functionality that people care about.
I've definitely hit my 400GB cap once or twice and regretted switching from unlimited. Most months is 20-60 GB but the next highest option after 400 is 40 and I'd hit that too often. And yes, this is mobile. My desktop runs 24/7 and has a torrent client on, so I can get a terabyte per month on my home network too, though thankfully those are all unlimited in my country.
Estonian here, similar, but two languages wasn't actually an option at least earlier this century. I started my first foreign language in 3rd grade and the other one in 6th. Could've added a 3rd one in high school but didn't feel like it personally.
Daycare isn't entirely free but the fee is very small.
Hospital visits are 2.50 per night for inpatient or 5 euros a visit for outpatient I think. Without insurance most tests are still double digits, but major surgery can go into the thousands. Insurance is tied to having employment - but being in school, raising a child under 3, etc counts too. And so does registering as unemployed. Pretty much the only time you have no health insurance is if you're a NEET and don't register for unemployment.
And you can walk to places. In my hometown, we could just walk or cycle to the next town over. There's a separate light traffic road next to the car road.
Hey Russian cops are alright, you just need to always have cash on hand.
Okay if you run into one that doesn't want your money, then you might be fucked. All in all they're up there with American cops.