False equivalence.

I don’t get it? Why are these protests not anti government? Do they consider everything else that is going on OK?
Cutting healthcare, the obvious corruption, and destroying the American economy in multiple ways, and making Americans poorer by devaluing the US Dollar.
But apparently Americans are OK with losing their democracy, and people working 2 jobs living in poverty without healthcare!

Protesting ICE is of course a place to start, but despite the protests ICE is still active in Minnesota!

Unfortunately USA is not a free country, and secession is illegal.
History shows that military force will be used in case states try to secede.

WTF?!
I know Sweden is way more liberal with what is considered street legal than Denmark,

systemet kräver i sin nuvarande form ständig förarövervakning

Translation: The system in its current form requires constant driver supervision

So it’s more like “assisted self driving” which of course is an oxymoron.

I åratal har Tesla sålt funktionen ”total självkörningsförmåga”

Translation: For years Tesla has sold the function “fully autonomous (self) driving.”

I wonder why they are allowed to advertise that?
But it seems it is following EU regulation, so I guess we can’t blame Sweden for it. But those shitty Tesla cars shouldn’t be street legal in EU even without FSD.

45% Failure rate!

A 4 year old model Y revision just reached the age of mandatory safety check here in Denmark.

Article in Danish:
https://fdm.dk/nyheder/nyt-om-trafik-og-biler/tesla-skandalen-fortsaetter-naesten-hver-anden-tesla-model-y-dumper-til-syn

Translation of the headline:
The TESLA Scandal continues, almost every 2nd Tesla model Y flunk safety check.

The previous record was held Buy Tesla model 3 with about a third of the cars failing!
The average for all brands is about 7%.
And a similar priced VW ID.4 is less than 2%. LESS THAN!
Without question the VW is way better quality, and even the cheapest Chinese cars we can get here have way lower failure rate than Tesla!

So very obviously Tesla and safety are not things that go together.

This is what many of us warned against already 20 years ago. It’s one of the inherent dangers of ALL proprietary software.
Back then most people didn’t believe or understand it, now that such dangers are out in the open, nothing continues to happen about it.
Everybody knows today, but (almost) nobody gives a shit.

No reason to worry, everything is going according to plan.
-White House

I’ll never forgive the assholes that voted this piece of shit into office

You shouldn’t. These are the new Nazis. Sociopaths completely without respect for anything.

American-controlled CPUs

and fucking invest into not needing to use American-controlled CPUs as every single one of them contains a backdoor.

China has been working intensely for at least 2 decades to catch up, and they are still about a decade behind!

Netherlands has ASML which is a huge advantage for European independent manufacturing, but even with that it’s an insanely expensive investment to make a realistic competitor to AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom etc. because they have loads of patents that are hard to avoid, and they have decades of know how. This is not even accounting for the software infra structure that would have to be built almost from scratch.
Chip production is a global enterprise, and even USA isn’t independent anymore. They depend on ASML and TSMC for their most popular products in AI, Smartphones, servers, laptops and desktops. And more and more Arm is taking over from Intel/AMD.

What we may be able to do would be using Arm and have TSMC help us with manufacturing. But to make such a project succeed is not an easy thing, we had European computer companies in the 70’s and 80’s that were heavily subsidized by governments that dominated home markets for several European countries, and they essentially all failed against international competition.
So what we risk if we were required to use a European product funded by EU/European governments would be to have to use an overpriced under-performing technology, that would be a millstone around the neck of all of Europe, making Europe not catch up, but instead fall further behind.

Best case scenario would be that the people demand a better democracy. But I doubt they will, because Americans are indoctrinated to think they have the best democracy in the world, when in reality it’s a highly dysfunctional democracy. And I suspect only a small percentage of Americans are aware of that.

consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches.

Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.

That’s part of how shitty the consumer protection really is.
But common for all, there needs to be complaints before the law is involved.

It looks like it, but he hasn’t quite won yet.

the truth is what drives everyone to do nothing about it.

The truth is that if Trump wins, USA is a dictatorship, and Americans have in effect lost a lot of the rights and freedoms they used to take for granted.
I think the truth should make people want to fight for democracy and their rights. The longer people wait, the harder it gets. Because the administration is systematically turning all the agencies into fascist wagging tails of the administration.

So are console sold with the possibility of changing the OS, only to have that option removed later? There was some issue with PS3, but apart from that I never heard about it.

I’ve been warning about this since before Trump won the election.
But to be honest IDK what to do at this point, except occupy white house and congress.
It seems more and more like either give Trump his way, or prepare for civil war. 😬
I hope your fellow Americans have better ideas. The time to act was before Trump had everything stacked on his side. But maybe he doesn’t have that quite yet. And some of the services will side with the people if they act now.
But apparently all the services are now ready to do Trumps bidding. And if true, that means that USA is already a dictatorship.

If true, this is sabotage of the customers product, and must 100% be illegal in almost any country!!
But my guess is they are limiting this to countries that have absolute shit consumer protection.

I hope this is a turning point, but I don’t believe it until I see it.
Trump has mobilized federal forces en masse now, ICE, FBI the National guard and even including the military to be ready to intervene against the population if necessary.
Trump is a sociopath, in an administration completely filled with sociopaths. They won’t hesitate to kill people if it suit their purpose.
It’s already evident that they don’t give a shit about those innocent people already killed. They resort to victim blaming completely against the evidence and without shame.

How exactly do people imagine things will turn now? Unless of course there are plans to occupy the White house, but I’m not sure even that will help, Trump will just be flown away in a helicopter to a military installation outside the reach of ordinary people.
If the administration is moved to another location, the White House is just another building.

On the more positive side (/s), all this turbulence has allowed Trump to withhold the Epstein Files without much uproar over that.

The real risk remains that when people protest, Trump will declare martial law, and while the checks and balances are scrambling to figure out what to do, Trump will take complete control. Because the system was not designed to reign in a malignant narcissist for president and an administration that backs him up completely. It was designed to make the president strong and effective, giving the President way to much power, and no real power to the ones outside the administration that are supposed to reign him in.

This is not a turning point, it’s an escalation, and Trump already has plans for that.
But lets hope Trumps plans fail, because he isn’t very bright, he is merely completely ruthless and without any conscience.

Yes Obama was part of the problem too. Refusing to acknowledge the surveillance and rights to authorities as soon as they claimed terrorism were way beyond what’s healthy for a democracy. Unfortunately Obama too was very “American” in that regard.