I don’t think there’s a financial reason for this. I think he’s willing to lose money on his AI in the short time by doing this just so he can score some points with Trump since the EU is soon going to strike his company with even more fines for breaking EU law. He probably wants Trump to stop this from happening and this kind of stuff tickles the pickle of that dingus.

Wait, you think Putin has credibility when speaking on climate change?

I never said that. I said that to the general public he may appear as more credible based on his behavior when adressing the issue compared to Greta which would undermine environmental efforts. This is what I’m concerned about.

I can’t imagine a world where you’re calling that “petulant”. At 16 years old she had more poise and gravitas than many of the world leaders she was speaking to. You say she hasn’t done anything. I beg to differ. Further, if what she has done is nothing, it raises the obvious question: what have you done to avert climate catastrophe?

Ok, usually I welcome debates, but I can see that you were very angry when you wrote this so I think it’s better that we stop here. Before finishing off, I would like to clarify one more time that I’m not a climate change denier. I just don’t like the way Greta and others like her operate since it’s my belief that their aggressiveness undermines the movement and increases the risk of turning people into reactionaries. That’s my opinion. I’m entitled to it just as much as you’re entitled to your own.

Here’s a useful chart comparing all the popular cloud and email providers - https://eylenburg.github.io/cloud_comparison.htm

I use Tuta and I’m very satisfied with it. It offers end-to-end encryption, the client is open source and it’s user friendly. The most common complaint you’ll hear from people about it is that it doesn’t offer IMAP. Personally I don’t mind it that much. It really depends on what you’re looking for.

Greta Thunberg is 22 years old right now, and was “screaming” and “blaming people” when she was 11 years old.

Expecting an 11 year old to provide answers that none of the established world has is silly.

Fully agreed.

She saw the world she was going to inherit and forced conversation to work toward solutions

I disagree. I saw her speak and the reactions to some of her speeches. Her inflamatory and derogatory speeches did nothing more than help opponents of the energy transition. To give you an example, when asked about it during an interview Putin jumped at the opportunity to discredit the energy transition. While the public saw Greta behaving like a petulant child during the speech, they then saw Putin speaking calmy, asking real questions like “How are poor nations going to transition when they need cheap fossils to sustain themselves?”. They then take this bit and plaster it on every social media site. People see it and are inclined to take Putin’s side since he appears more knowledgeable and in control of himself. And just like that he gets a boost in his reputation.

This is why I don’t like activists like her and the author of this article. They do more harm than good by expressing themselves in such a violent manner.

“listen to the experts who have been screaming at you for 50 years.”

That would be fine provided that it’s done correctly and civilized. Which is my point. Raising awarness is fine.Throwing insults loudly left and right to raise awareness is not. It only makes you seem delusional and sheds a bad light on your cause. This allows climate change deniers to take advantage of that to further their agenda.

We fully transition to clean energy like nuclear and build more power plants to allow us to store our online stuff.

The author of this article is not a serious person. He’s in the same bucket as Greta Thunberg. They just like to scream and blame people instead of providing practical solutions. It’s frankly tiring to hear them despite their honorable intentions.

It also includes the people that deleted their Twitter accounts following the acquisition. I’m one of those people and I’m especially annoyed because I only used that blasted app only to register to some giveaways when I was in middle school. I have since discontinued that email account, but still.

As someone who had a Samsung Flip3, I miss how easy it was to carry it around. It didn’t feel like a brick that I had to take out of my pocket every time I needed to check my notifications. It was also surprisingly durable. Price is the main downside of these phones.

There’s a fair chance I’ll buy another one in the future if I have enough money when switching phones.

I’m also interested in hearing more updates. Last I checked, Meta said it’s planning to release support for messages this year while call and video support would be released by 2027. I should mention that this was in october of 2024, before Trump took office. There’s a fair chance that Zuckerberg will seek to delay the process now that Trump took over and is threating retaliation against the EU if it chooses to strike back against abuses from US tech companies.

If anyone has more updates, by all means respond.

It is not an arrangement, nor attachment to Zuckerberg. It is not beneficial to Zuckerberg or Meta for this to happen and I assure you that they are not fans of the ideea either.

The EU did this to break Meta’s monopoly on communication. Right now I can’t ditch Whatsapp no matter how much I want to because everything in my life is connected to that blasted app. My university, my employers, my family, my friends, EVERYONE is using Whatsapp and Whatsapp only. If I were to delete it, I would be isolated. I would be able to convince my family to switch to another app and probably a few of my friends, but I sure as hell won’t be able to convince my workplace or my faculty to do it. Allowing third party apps to communicate with Whatsapp is the only way I can ditch his app.

I should also mention that this will only apply to the European Union. Meta will maintain its monopoly everywhere else. The EU is the only one that actually cares about consumer rights enough to pick a fight with the US over them and I’m thankful for that.

Edit: fixed some grammar.

Can confirm. I finally managed to install Linux Mint on my Chromebook yesterday and while it wasn’t as difficult as I imagined, it was annoying. The guy at Google that came up with the battery ideea deserves prison time. My internal speakers don’t work anymore, but I wasn’t really using them that often so it’s not a problem for me.

Stay away from Chromebooks. Save up for a normal laptop.