American AF. It’s just their Dutch daughter company doing the official purchase for legal reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyndryl?wprov=sfla1

Lol, this is the dumbest thing I’ve heard in the long time (The story about sitting making the workers lazy, your comment explains it great, thanks!).

Wait, what? Do cashier’s stands in other shops in US?

Yeah, I also basically forgot about ads on the web :D

Not feeling that every step you make online can trigger an offload of content from a random internet bubble is great. Like when, e.g., that one day you clicked on a video about migration, and oh boy, algorithms go crazy. I totally don’t miss it.

Yeah. The Swedish government should have just bought the company (the current one would never do it, though) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

If your Finnish… Do you know how it compares to SailfishOS (I guess the latter is more popular in Finland than elsewhere).

I’ve been using it for a few months. Runs smooth and is easy/intuitive to use. Got me off Google Photos and One Drive in one go. I love their blog, it was one of the main reasons why I chose them, since they describe very well how to do different custom things (e.g. setting up Joplin sync, or downloading photos from Facebook before you delete them/your account).

I thought this is exactly what this project addresses?

It’s my arm!

Well, at least you will be able to scroll Lemmy at high speed as you stay extra 2h onboard the train ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I used to search with Ecosia, but the Bing-sourced results were sometimes really poor quality. I’ve recently gave one more try to Karma Search. While it worked really poorly earlier this year, I am very positively surprised by the quality of the results! (Of course, the “quality” is my vibe at the moment, and idk if there are good ways to benchmark search engines)

In what sense?

I mean, BNPL scheme is extremely exploitative. It makes people accumulate debt because they buy impulsively. Their direct payment system is convenient, but it is very hard to have sympathy for this kind of business…

Spotify is also sold on Wall Street… Defeatist tech bros mindset, thinking you can do big business only in the US (even if you have already done big business elsewhere).

Or - they think they will attract more capital by going public in the US. I wish the state would do sth to prevent it.

I haven’t been playing in years and this is shocking to me. Like, people pay almost six times as much for mobile games than for PC games? The mobile games I used to play were all simple and free (yes, I do think about Snake, among others).

Great points. Shame I did not mention Taiwan. Thanks!

And the EU, and the UK, and Canada, Japan, South Korea, could easily cooperate. Their goals in the tariff chaos are more or less aligned (maybe apart from the last two not caring much about Ukraine to the best of my knowledge).

EU has AMSL and other key semiconductor manufacturing equipment producers. Nokai and Ericsson dominate the telecom installations in the US, to much frustrations of some Americans, and with even the military getting more and more reliant on them.

The CPUs, GPUs, and Smartphones are much more Asian than American. It’s just the immediate shock of blocking mails and office software, and some of the even more critical software as well, that the US has long been preparing to use as a brutal leverage. It is not that much about having leverage, as about the state’s ability to use it.

So: Tesla sold 60 000 less cars, BYD 52 000 more. That’s almost equal. But Europeans also bought 25% more EVs in that time.

I think Tesla and BYD buyers have relatively small overlap. Tesla has been branding as a rather luxurious car. The edge of Chinese EVs is that they are affordable. So the Tesla buyers probably switched to some other known brands, e.g., Mercedes EVs (noticed shift in Stockholm Taxi). And then the BYD users are mainly new to EVs, or wouldn’t buy one more if not for the cheap option. But this is just my speculation.

Weird. Works for me without issues (Firefox on Android)