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Did you read the directive? https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/oj/eng

Has anyone verified what this article says?

Here’s the directive in question: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/oj/eng It doesn’t seem to imply what the article implies.

Also, here are some things from the discussion on HN

As is usual, there seems to be a massive misunderstanding what the directive is and means. The TLDR is that the directive contains no clauses that compels phone makers to keep the Android bootloader locked or that forbids EU users from unlocking it.

Samsung’s public reasoning might be that disabling unlocking the bootloader because of the directive, but there is nothing in the directive that forces them to lock the bootloader. It does sound like a convenient scapegoat if they don’t want to talk about the real reasons though.

The phone makes who end up disabling the unlocking of bootloaders are all doing so on their own accord, not because some regulation is forcing them to.

Finally, the EU’s broader right-to-repair policies makes it kind of impossible that an outright prohibition of unlocking the bootloader could happen. But of course, nuance doesn’t make people click article titles on the web…

I’m going to take a risk and say you write faster than you type and reaching for a pencil is quicker than launching a program.

Maybe for you, but opening KWrite takes only 5-6 key presses and I type much faster than I write

We don’t need to go back to handwritten mail, FOSS is the way to go.

Yes, often the course is just hard or the students are lazy, but not always. I’ve had several teachers who were strangely proud of the low succes rates.

I’m wondering how long it’s going to take to revert this policy

It might be because of child abuse themes and the portrayal of robot sex workers. It has been criticized before.

We knew right from the start that Detroit: Become Human was going to be heavy going. The 2016 and 2017 trailers both featured children in peril: first a child dangled from a rooftop, then a young girl being beaten by her father, but David Cage defended the dark subject matter with the promise that “there’s a context in the story, there’s a reason for that”, and we gave the game the benefit of the doubt. The problem is that having now seen the game in full it is clear that Cage’s child abuse narrative isn’t content with just one scene, and definitely isn’t used with care, context, and solid reasoning.

‘Detroit: Become Human’: Exploitative and Tasteless

I’m not sure if I agree with this sentiment. I feel like it was mostly focused on the way Kara goes out of her way to protect Alice, but I can kind of understand how someone else could see this differently.

I’ve never bought a porn game nor ever played one, but I just think it’s stupid that such large companies fold to a lobby organization and start moderating the sale of products. Christian fundamentalist activists are persistent and organized, and it’s effective. I think it’s bad how a small minority is able to dictate the lives of other people and I like how people get riled up because I hope it will remind the people in charge of those large corporations that catering to extremists is a bad decision.

TLDR: Idgaf about the games, I just hate it when religious zealots dictate the lives of others.

EDIT: I might have been wrong about “Collective Shout” and didn’t look into it enough before forming an opinion.

EDIT 2: Yeah, I don’t think “Incest Daughters BDSM” deserves saving. They seem to be primarily targeting rape and incest games, and I can definitely understand that you want to see rape games gone from if you’re an organisation like this. Article However, I still don’t know how accurate their own article is, I might check out more sources/perspectives when I have time.

EDIT 3: My initial assessment seems to be correct, a large amount of games are affected and the “policies” seem to be enforced with a disregard for accuracy. The organization also seems to be more extreme.

I think the limiting factor would be getting your number blocked. Maybe someone could get a bunch of VoIP numbers?

It just flickers for a very short amount of time on Jerboa

Most people have played Minecraft, they’ll know

Or when it ends on a cliffhanger just to get canceled. That really ruins how I feel about a show.

Have you considered that the machine is made by a collection of humans?

Yes, but I still don’t know why they seem to think it’s so important to write a new browser engine instead of improving Gecko or Servo. To me it just seems like people like it because they don’t know other things aside from the Chrome, Safari, and Firefox browser engines exist and just chase something new and shiny.

The fact that it’s aiming to be stable doesn’t mean it is. It’s still a work in progress unlike other browsers.

I also use them but I often get blocked from sites when it’s on

It is though. I currently use Signal installed through F-Droid. You just need to add a separate repository.

AFAIK it only affects the matrix.org server.

It’s a load of bullshit…

Based on what?