PonyOfWar

Nothing really. Someone else already wrote that Android is technically Linux. But you can also get “regular” Linux on mobile devices, it’s just a matter of using a distribution with mobile-friendly UI as well as getting driver support for the phone’s hardware. Ubuntu touch exists for example, but only works on a limited number of devices and even on supported devices it’s not really suitable for the average user yet.

In Star Trek SNW’s crossover episode with Lower Decks (cartoon), Boimler’s first comment when he meets the crew from SNW is that they look “very realistic”

what if, by giving the lesser evil more energy and making them a greater evil, you give them the ability to put you in prison camps when the original greater evil could not?

You haven’t explained how that is supposed to work though. Why couldn’t the greater evil do this, what’s stopping them? And you truly think that every political party has the very same goals underneath? Let’s take an extreme example: Germany 1932. You think if the SPD (social democrats) had won the election instead of the NSDAP, it would have been just as bad? You think they would have also slaughtered all the Jews and started WW2, because they were secretly just as evil? That doesn’t sound reasonable or realistic to me. There’s more to politics than whether a party is capitalist or socialist. Nuances exist.

How far capitalists and the state are willing to go is as far as they think they can get away with.

I don’t agree with this, but going along with it for the sake of the argument: By letting the greater evil get into power, you are showing them that they can get away with way more than if it were the lesser.

So let’s say you didn’t vote for the lesser evil and the greater evil has narrowly won. The greater evil takes away your right to vote and puts you into a prison camp. What have you gained, a sense of moral superiority? Was that worth it?

It’s not new, nor is it AI. Predictive text suggestions have been in Android for ages now.

It seems, at the very least, deceitful. If you don’t want to give money, just don’t and don’t pretend otherwise.

I have the base model for my iOS builds (my main development PC is a Windows machine). It works fine for that purpose. The SSD space runs out immediately though, so I had my company buy an external drive. Also wouldn’t want to do any prolonged development sessions on it personally, just owing to the small screen, keyboard, lack of ports etc. That could be fixed with external screens and adapters though.

Countries have different laws and regulations that companies have to adhere to if they want to sell a product or publish a website there.

Additionally, they might have bought the rights to stream a movie in one country, but not others. Offering that movie in other countries would then be a copyright violation.