The US government banning anything based on suspected use of forced labor is laughable. Pretty blatantly anti-China, and very hypocritical when a lot of US states use glorified slave labor. It is quicker to name the large US companies that don’t use prison labor than the ones that do.

Classic playbook for him and his successive governments: constantly trading human lives for political power and votes.

“TikTok does what every social media company does but this time it’s Chinese so it’s bad” is what this headline should really say.

This is never a popular thing in any country when it’s attempted.

Looks like even Chinese citizens aren’t immune to “Murica best freedom” propaganda.

Portable gaming died because of smartphone gaming, unfortunately

You have guessed right. The US government had a massive hand in the creation of modern social media, such as a significant amount of funding for Facebook during its startup phase. The intelligence agencies are mad that they can’t pull data from TikTok or influence its algorithms, on top of the American social media companies wanting to kill off their foreign competition as much as possible.

This bill has nothing to do with data privacy because if Congress cared about that they would’ve banned other platforms too. It’s about control and unfair competition.

The “data privacy” argument is bullshit and the people pushing for this law know it. That’s what is being sold to people but it is not why this TikTok ban got passed. It got passed because American social media companies are pissed that TikTok is outcompeting them for the attention of young people, and because the US government has a heavy hand in what algorithms are allowed to push on Facebook and Google and others. A good portion of Facebook’s initial funding came from government sources.

“Data privacy” is just an excuse. Lobbying from the intelligence agencies and social media companies is why it’s really being enacted.

Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU’s as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it’s more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API’s those console chips use.

I have seen the phrase “the Switch is a telemetry nightmare” on CFW websites

One might argue that it is, instead, the Lunchable that is the poor facsimile of a charcuterie.

Solidarity with workers everywhere. You love to see it.

Snap has always bothered me and this is another great reason why.

Oh I see what you meant than. Older and cheaper would definitely fit your application better and all of Framework’s stuff is expensive. Repairable and upgradeable comes at a cost!

As long as people keep getting paid to make predictions, they will keep making paid predictions

The fact that we’re talking about this means that, as a publicity stunt, it worked. Tucker got a massive amount of media attention for this.

And in the social media algorithm, there’s no such thing as bad publicity; all that matters is engagement.

Personally I won’t be watching. Not even for the memes. If enough people ignored pundits like Tucker Carlson, they’d go away.

What concerns you about Framework’s chipsets?

If you need cheap, and “built for a group”, an existing SBC and custom-printed enclosures are likely the best option.

No public sources yet, but there are positive whispers from anonymous people in the electronics supply industry. Companies that make boards, chips, screens, that kinda stuff. That plus the fact that the original Switch launched in 2017 is enough for me to believe the new one is on the way.

That console’s hardware is endlessly fascinating. Incredible what they did with it, at the price it sold for, back in 1996!

This headline seems biased just by itself. “Bigwig” isn’t exactly a respectful term.