The core issue stems from the US CLOUD Act of 2018, which allows American authorities to access data held by US companies regardless of location

Tell me how the US is not what they blame China to be.

Obligatory Welcome to Linux comment

Money throws logic out the window 10/10 times cant recommend.

If it was me, I would suggest that everything where you can post stuff to a feed/on a profile is considered Social Media.

Direct messaging is not. But if they implement other features into the app, like stories, it’s Social Media again.

They do it because there are so few alternatives out there, that the difference between them are greater than the average customer would want.

Break them up. If you are too big to fail, you are too big to exist.

Because these rules are not about you and me, but are important on a much larger scale.

If only there was a way to fund open source projects so we both could have better software for the world and paid employees…

I think you can guess which government body already do this. Just take a shot.

Omg I might have done that to some people! Never realised!

Previously I skipped downloadning the “unneccesary” files like .nfo og random .txt, or subtitles for other languages.

Never considered that would result in incomplete downloads for others.

If you want a new console + a PC at your TV, I think the new Steam Machine could be nice for that.

Running SteamOS (Linux) this should be good, or am I missing something?

Ofc they are. They are winning most things right now.

Chinas “weakness” is being reliant on being a production hub for the rest of the world.

And Trump tries to MOVE production to the US, so China can take over the dominant role.

I cant even.

/s right? Because it’s obvious people wont age verify for porn, when there’s a thousands alternatives.

Their biggest and saddest win, is making truth debatable.

Depends on who you are.

If you often discover music and searches for songs, your method is not the experience prefered.

If you always listen to your playlists, and sometimes want to add a new one, yours work great.

What everyone really wants, is a player that autodownloads and plays while downloadning, like with torrents, and then gives the option to auto remove after x days or keep forever. Everything happening under the hood.

Otherwise I’m afraid it will keep away most people.

I think there’s a middle ground. It’s not all or nothing.

We can have million dollar studios without having a billion dollar studio.

That’s true, which also illustrates how absurd the big paychecks are with your post in mind.

Sure.

The premise is to bring down costs, and not be free. This is a reality where we can share media we buy, because we own them again.

So you can kind of imagine the world 20-30 years back with VHS and DVDs. Just in the digital world.

Fewer people would buy the content, and less shareholders will be rich. Actors will also not go for multi million dollar salaries. But actors would still exist.

You can argue that this will bring down the number of movies, but most likely there will just be alot of small studios making movies instead of Netflix and Disney controlling the market from start to end.

There will be a much larger varaity in movies, and not that many reboots of past succes from the VHS/DVD age.

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a reality outside our own.

Nice change. But it’s probably because of the EU making it mandatory more than Sony being good guys.

Well, I think it’s too nice to call them facists only. It’s literally a dictatorship.

They need us (our money). We dont even like them enough to not replace them the second they go away.