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2027, year of Linux car, or bicycle.

Let’s hope my predictions are wrong then. Are you betting on it?

Just reminding people Kobo is not just that nice little Canadian tech company anymore, it’s part of tech giant. So don’t fall for the David and Goliath narrative that is implied here. It’s rather third-rate Goliath and Goliath. So take your precautions where you can. I sadly don’t have an alternative to suggest.

I don’t want to ruin good news, but everyone needs to know that Kobo is owned by the shitty Japanese Amazon equivalent called Rakuten since 2012. So the risk of enshitification is pretty high, why not if the hardware is nice, but try to cut as many software ties as possible.

Edgy leftist teens in particular

Who finances the Sovereign Tech Agency?

The Sovereign Tech Agency is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation and is a subsidiary of SPRIND, the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation.

https://www.sovereign.tech/faq#who-finances-the-sovereign-tech-agency

They over-consumed the goods from those countries and they lost their minds.

I think it’s already the case for 1080p at the distance most people put their TV.

Yep, literally the whole habitable layer of our planet.

I didn’t know about that. Do you have a reliable source?

See how little the recent “No Kings” protests have accomplished vs the death of that one health insurance ceo.

What did the murder of this CEO accomplish?

Motorola Mobility belongs to Chinese Lenovo but headquarters are in Chicago. Not sure if that makes it better or worse regarding privacy and surveillance compared to USA only.

The red line is the amount of cash they are ready to compromise for.

I am not knowledgeable about this, I just checked the Wikipedia page to confirm my understanding of the joke and found these very interesting historical uses.

Octal 31 = 3 x 8¹ + 1 x 8⁰ = 24 + 1 = Decimal 25

• The Yuki language in California has an octal system because the speakers count using the spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.[2]
• The Pamean languages in Mexico also have an octal system, because some of their speakers “count the knuckles of the closed fist for each hand (excluding the thumb), so that two hands equals eight.”[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal

The tobacco industry is a good historical example of all the shit world dominating companies do. The most sneaky thing I can remember is that they finance perfectly good research on a lot of causes of cancer, except for tobacco, so researchers were too busy and happy to get some money to work on something, to investigate tobacco. They also have been buying companies that used to finance legitimate research so researchers that depended on them are now forced into a conflict of interest. https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1153

Personal anecdote, a young female data scientists left my current department to join Philip Morris, it blows my mind that young educated people would join this industry willingly, I guess it was for the money.

Latex hell? Good luck

Sure, not just world wide like the USA currently.

For now, once China becomes the dominant power, they will certainly abuse it as much as the USA do.