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It’s a monarchy really

Yes, this is actually a much more helpful way to think about Trump’s approach to presidency. Here is Dr David Smith from the United States Studies Centre explaining this in a recent episode of PEP (excellent in-depth American politics podcast from Australia).

Yeah they are all interesting ideas that appeal to some kind of niche, but their inability to support them as a small company undercuts most of that. It is a problem for most manufacturers though, even relatively big ones like Motorola are quite poor when compared to the big three (with regards to software support) of Apple, Samsung and Google.

LineageOS support would definitely make me more interested in the Jelly Max. I have considered it a few times but there’s just no way I could justify the purchase with the doubts I have over its long-term viability.

Same here, it’s part of the reason why I’ve never bothered to own a Sony or Microsoft console. Their first party titles are not radically different to anything I could play on my PC, and often I can actually play them on my PC with significantly better visuals/performance/input. Meanwhile, Nintendo is still puting out first party titles that are quite unique to their systems. It’s actually so good that they’ve become a portable-focused company now because their systems and games have become the perfect accompaniments for PC gamers.

Very true, though I think for many it is still a home console in their head because on the surface it appears like a direct continuation of the Wii U. It’s actually the opposite - a portable console that can optionally be used as a home console with, in some cases, improvements to the visuals when doing so. Some people still see Nintendo as being in direct competition with Sony and Microsoft when they really haven’t been for a long time now.

I would feel more confident in this film if it were animated. After decades of bad Zelda cosplay fan films, I find it very difficult to imagine a live action Zelda film not looking completely ridiculous.

Probably not to the same extent, population has been pretty stable this year.

You might enjoy some of Woo Min-ho’s films. ‘Drug King’ (2018) is a biopic about a Korean drug lord in the '70s, while ‘Inside Men’ (2016) is a political thriller focusing on corruption in modern Korean society (criminal organisations influencing politicans and the judicial system). I’d also recommend Na Hong-jin’s ‘The Yellow Sea’ (2010), which is about a Yanbian taxi driver who falls into the criminal underworld after racking up huge debts via his gambling addiction.

This would be amazing!

Many of your examples are just the US fucking up the lives of citizens in other countries. The average American at home does not give a fuck about the people being murdered by his government, he isn’t going to skip a day of work to protest against that. I think maybe you are forgetting how much Americans loved the idea of invading Iraq, for instance. It took a long time for support to decrease, and even then it was only to like 50/50 levels. Americans weren’t the ones protesting against that war, it was the rest of the world who saw it for what it was. When it comes to foreign affairs the American citizen has consistently been blinded by a mixture of patriotism, ignorance and the myth of American exceptionalism.

It depends how important the tab bar feature is to you. Firefox has pretty much every other feature you’ve listed there and would be my recommendation. Otherwise, Vivaldi has all of the functionality but isn’t FOSS and is potentially less private. It would still be a lot better than Samsung Internet in those areas, though.

How are people affording having 20 subscriptions to stuff they probably barely use?

Who said they can? This will be an unpopular opinion because no one likes to admit they are at fault, but the cost of living crisis we are experiencing in Western countries is actually just a cost of spending crisis for some people. Some of those who claim to be “struggling” shouldn’t be, but they have never been taught how to effectively manage their finances and until now they’ve been able to get away with it.

This is actually how people live now. It feels crazy to say this but I actually know people like this in real life who use their phone while “watching” a film. There has even been debate about whether production studios are dumbing down scripts to cater to people who are literally not paying attention. We live in insane times.

I sort of agree in terms of the type that unfolds into a larger display, although price is definitely a big factor with those. I feel like durability is becoming less of a concern as more people are exposed to them in the real world. However, I disagree if you’re referring to the type that folds down into a smaller form factor. They have been selling quite well as I understand, and are a clear solution to one of the problems with phones being so large now (that they are no longer pocketable in many cases). I would have a hard time going back to a regular phone after using one of these for over a year now.

This dilemma has been explored previously by Red Letter Media, but they had a whole section dedicated to it in the middle of their recent ‘Presence’ review (by Steven Soderbergh), because it was raised again recently by Sean Baker in his acceptance speech at the Oscars. I am the type of person who prefers to see films at my local cinema for both nostalgia/cultural heritage reasons and because the experience in terms of the audio and visuals is better than what I have at home, but at the same time the cinema experience is so vulnerable to disruption when it comes to these kinds of films that it always feels like I’m gambling with time and money when I decide to go.

I would love this. Motorola’s Android is one of the most vanilla.

It’s not as good as it used to be, unfortunately. Most of the bloat can still be uninstalled pretty easily (in my region, at least) but they have been moving away from the “stock Android” experience since the introduction of Hello UI.

Yeah it’s one of the reasons I prefer Proton. Not many VPNs offer that functionality now, unfortunately.

That’s rarely how donations work, though. Ultimately you need to have some level of trust that the people at the organisation you are donating to know a lot more about where, when and how your money can be effectively used than you do. Your pre-donation requirements/demands are extremely unrealistic and I’m not sure if people like yourself are genuinely delusional about this fact or if you just use it as some sort of moral bargaining tactic to never feel bad about the fact that you don’t donate any of your money to the causes you supposedly really want to.

Mullvad. Its only real downside is its lack of port forwarding and it passes all the Lemmy purity tests. You will never be downvoted for recommending it.