A lot already have actually, writing was on the wall back when they dropped the version names which was also around the time a lot of the original Android hardware OEMs gave in which left us with carriers giving you the option between Samsung, Google, and Motorola.

Then they abused Trump’s first term to ban Huawei for spyware since it was competing too well.

The frontend UI sucks, the backend ART sucks, the process pausing system can’t hold most of your app views because reasons, Samsung removed OEM unlocking, Google has a stranglehold on decade old RCS with only google messages supporting such a protocol (wtf???), AOSP is functionally dead, Gapps has been eating the left side of your homepage for years, etc etc.

I’m thinking about getting some handheld and making it into a PDA, like those upcoming DS-like consoles, and then maybe just get a pocket modem for phone/internet.

Impeachment is the US legislative form of this, but it almost never happens because getting the two party system to engage it in both the house and senate is too high of a task.

That being said, be careful what you wish for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-confidence_motion_against_Imran_Khan

Parliamentary can be better, but there’s always the chance it backfires and it becomes a massive bribery scheme, which would be even worse in the US because lobbying in the US is legal. You’d just end up in a situation where highest bidder can change between parties on a whim with reduced repercussion from voters.

All they really need to do is reset the senate into proportional representation with a constitutional amendment because state’s rights stopped existing decades ago, especially after SCOTUS torpedoed basically all the individual rights asserted by previous cases, including limits on lobbying.

People pay to stream music?

I thought most people just put up with ads, or get the revanced version of the app with ads removed.

Then you have the smaller group that downloads off of any good distribution site, and then the small minority of music archive torrentors.

I think I only ever met one person who actually paid for youtube premium, but my sample size is probably too small.

None of you fools in this thread have ever encountered a public situation, much less a dangerous public situation huh?

DagwoodIII’s Is the only real answer here. https://lemmy.world/post/36439135/19587202

Finally the stupid floating jet engine looking turbines from Big Hero 6, except IRL they actually look good.

Japan actually has the technology and know-how to rapidly spin up a nuclear weapons program because they were already doing it before signing up on their non-nuclear policies with the US.

The real question is which country is going to be the first to actually jump ship. I’m fairly certain like 95% of the UN is just going to wait out Trump’s term and hope the next president will undo all his insane plans, because no one wants to lose longstanding ties with the US, even as the rug pull of 70+ years of American influence going under gets closer to reality.

Right? Couldn’t pay me to use Disney. Even Netflix I only liked during the DVD era. Streaming selection was always crap with maybe 1 actual show or movie you wanted to see.

Lol wait till you see any of the Pakistan or India related articles. Its like the Ganges river in text form.

Yeah but uncensored brainrot is still better than propaganda brainrot.

One of the reasons tiktok became so popular is that it didn’t go around banning entire swaths of content under the guise of “healthy content” like Facebook (Insta), X, and Reddit do.

This isn’t even a Trump issue specifically, Biden wanted TIkTok to do the same. Either follow policy demands or sell to an American owner.

Are there even any dumb TVs anymore? The current lineup from CES 2025 is LG (OLED), Samsung (OLED), and TCL (MiniLED) which have great image quality options, but I’m fairly sure all are using a “smart” platform.

TCL doesn’t bother with software and uses Google TV. Samsung uses Tizen which is linux with another junk UI, though less painful than Google. LG uses webOS which I’ve heard UI side is better, but its still a junk UI on linux.

I’m just gonna chalk it up to the Samsung keyboard being complete garbage lol, I was joking about the corporate beef.

As for Hyundai, yeah it sounds sketchy because it’s “I heard from someone” which may as well just be made up, but I didn’t add any details because it gets a little too close to disclosing personal info.

But tbf this is lemmy and I would have questioned the same thing, so here goes:

I live <2 hours away from one of Hyundai’s Georgia plants and personally know someone who works for Hyundai at raided plant who gave all the details of what he knows (along with some pictures of helicopters during the raid lol).

According to him, they primarily targeted the LG portion of the facility, which is across the road from the Hyundai section. They had everyone come outside for the lineup and verification of ID, before they took whoever they wanted away. In his own words, it was a “massive operation and totally overkill for whatever they discovered.”

A group of us were discussing the implications, because we always assumed the large Korean immigrant population in our area was primarily here on legal work visas (they are, 500 is nothing compared to the current population). We just didn’t expect Hyundai/LG to be skirting around for cheap foreign labor via visit visas.*

He doesn’t know how DHS/ICE figured them out or how Hyundai was documenting this process, but he did hear people talk about the visit visa process long before this, meaning it wasn’t some huge secret (DHS may already have been aware of this a long time ago). There are other similar visa exploit tricks several companies use that DHS has recently been trying to shutdown or change (stuff like multiple applications for a visa for only one person to increase draw rate).

Anyways, the general concenus was that even though the visit visa was providing jobs, it was technically exploit labor since workers would not have been receiving any US employment benefits or equivalent salary. Hyundai is primarily the one at fault here, but they really didn’t need to do a massive raid for this. They could have just as easily sent a single squad to show up and do ID checks, or even just knock on home addresses of everyone they identified on a non work visa.

Obviously no one wants to give ICE any more ammo for their existence, but I think they’ve been pocketing this and waited for a while so they can get all the clout with some big headlines after a couple of months of desperately detaining anyone even remotely foreign.

You can find details about both the visit visas and LG plant corroborated in the news. Ex: https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-us-georgia-raid-hyundai-24d990562f5ac20e7d3e983a77a4f7ff

As a result, South Korean companies have been relying on short-term visitor visas or the Electronic System for Travel Authorization to send the workers they need to launch manufacturing facilities or handle other setup tasks.

*fwiw it does seem more like they are dancing around the increasingly stricter visa requirements to get work done, and not just some cheap labor exploit, especially considering the amount of immigrants here on valid work visas for all the other jobs.

That would imply removing Netanyahu would end the genocide (it won’t).

If anything, he’s actually dragging it out as his contemporaries are even more hardline insane and would justify sacrificing relations with the US to go full gas chambers execution.

He didn’t stay in power by being wildly unpopular. He’s just another drop in the barrel of similar nation leaders like India’s Modi or Russia’s putin.

All three are very well supported publicly and privately, despite what some media outlets may want you to believe.

Samsung must have corporate beef with them because my autocorrect is set to Hyandai and not Hyundai lmao

I know this isn’t a real source but I know someone who works at this plant and he said most were here on 3 month visit visas.

Essentially they’d be paid back in SK for their 3 months of work and would cycle in and out in rotations.

Out of all the insane raids ICE has conducted, this one is actually quite a big find since it’s Hyandai essentially bypassing visa requirements for cheap labor.

Most likely ICE isn’t sure whether to charge the immigrant workers or fine Hyandai since Hyandai is the one that offered them jobs and told them the process of working under a visit visa.

I think they will likely get deported without any criminal charges or individual fines, but will obviously get blacklisted from any future entrance into the US.

There was actually a pretty good comment here once about how MLK and Gandhi only really succeeded with progress when a visible and difficult threat to the system was perceived.

Civil rights stagnated until the ramp up with the march to Washington and widespread riots from groups like the black panthers were damaging public society.

Similarly, Gandhi had trouble convincing the British to even consider independence until widespread communal violence swept the nation in the aftermath of WWII.

Both figures were touted as succeeding in history books due to their non violent movements, but in reality they simply became the center of attention for media at the time which solidified them as icons of their respective movements.

Ironically, both were assassinated which means their opposition definitely viewed them as a a powerful political threat, and not just some supporters for peace.

I will pay hard cash money for some devs to bring postmarketos to quality hardware vendors.

I’m all for buying a pinephone, but man are we missing out on the full potential from some genuinely good OEM hardware stuff like razr flip.

Aside from google doing google things, android has been a bloated java pos toy OS for nearly a decade now. It completely wastes the full potential of superior hardware by running everything on a shitty JVM known as the ART that was designed for when devices had <512mb of RAM. A Nintendo 3DS can do better multi process tasking than modern android which regularly kills app threads for no reason other than to screw with you because you dared to switch to a different app for 5 seconds.

Android was supposed to be the big apple killer because of its closeness to a desktop OS with heavy emphasis on widespread features and functionality. Even technically speaking, rooting got you there if you wanted to run whatever straight on the linux environment or swap kernels.

Its nothing but a ripoff iOS clone now. Android 7/8 was probably the peak of development and usability, and even back then people were complaining it didn’t have groundbreaking improvements like 6 or lollipop.

People will use every one of these horrendous messaging subapps but scoff at the idea of downloading signal or even whatsapp.

I chalk it up to ye olde statistics and having to view data as a matrix or tensor of bytes lol

Go back to r/Chodi lmao. Hindutva slop doesn’t fly here