Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

I mainly listen to electronic music for the past decade or so and have several artists I’ve listened to consistently, they’ll collab with some new artist or do a mix and include their music so I check them out and it grows from there.

To point out they already tried this for gamers specifically with GeForce now, stadia, etc and its not exactly a cash cow. Not sure why they think a whole pc is preferable.

I’m not sure if this is a dig or true, so I’ll assume it’s true and say that’s honestly super cute. I love when old folks use fun slang :p

I’m not sure how you’ve come to the conclusion I think America is good in any way lmao. Are you arguing with someone else?

And yeah I’m a Millenial and use lol and lmao, don’t care what you think about that.

Used swappa many times, can confirm it was good at least a few years ago.

If you think the US isn’t backdooring Chinese tech too you’d be mistaken lmao.

Its not that Chinese tech is any more secure fundamentally, they just don’t literally build in backdoors for the CIA/FBI/Etc… They’re still hackable especially if they’re just running android or similar.

I mean, do you really think it’s better idea to let them build their own water and power system separate?

They should be forced to upgrade the existing infrastructure so everyone benefits.

Is this a joke?

“I like weird interesting phones with cool features.”

“Have you thought about buying the most basic smartphone?”

Are you truly implying it’d be more secure to buy Chinese tech then US specifically if you’re not wanting to be spied on by the CCP?

That’s quite the take lmao.

I don’t disagree at all, this is my most charitable take, definitely just ends up being anti-consumer.

I think the more balanced take would be both sides are doing it lmao.

Kiwi Farms and 4chan say hello

Also oddly your criteria for social media doesn’t align with the broader public.

And? Do you understand the rationale behind the existing bans?

Telecommunications equipment and PC parts are not the same

I remember some food preservative used at Subway is also used in floormats and everyone freaking out saying subways has rubber in their food.

Say you buy a phone online, it’s comes in DOA/bricked due to being tampered with in-transit.

Seems better then unknowingly getting a tampered with phone with spyware hooked in, and like my oneplus 6t just gives a generic “bootloader unlocked” that most end-users wouldn’t really understand by comparison.

Idk still seems too destructive to me as well but I can see some possible rationale.

The most charitable thing I can think of is anti-tampering, potentially some sort of exploit in the prior version to install undetectable malware then upgrading back to the latest where it could still be retained but not newly installed?

Idk tho seems just anti-consumer “Never settle”

“Common features” does not imply it must have all on the list to be considered social media.

Here’s the other three if you’re curious:

Online platforms enable users to create and share content and participate in social networking.[2][3][4]

User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through online interactions.[2][3]

Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user’s profile with those of other individuals or groups.[2][5]

https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs