Are you moving to Europe or trying to find a job in Europe while living in the US?

I think moving to Europe is really the only option unless the EU company has a US entity.

Sounds like a fucking nightmare, but a wet dream to Big Tech.

Capitalism is causing massive wealth inequality.

I would expect a repair score to be about how easy it is to repair, can the battery be easily changed, is it glued down, etc.

Why is the energy usage so big and the repairability score so small?

These should be switched. Energy usage of the smartphone is less relevant, as it is a mobile device, so it is already designed to be energy efficient.

Android phones have objectively more spyware than Apple phones.

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/keine-ruecknahme-des-cannabisgesetzes-cang-legalisierung-fortsetzen-schwarzmarkt-stoppen

CEO will come out and say employees are more productive when forced to work 5 days a week. When asked to see the data, they will say trust me, I’ve seen the internal studies from a Big Tech company. Same exact playbook as work from home.

Most interesting would be a forced sell of Android. Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution? Would we see more official distributions of Android without any Google software?

Strange that they have chosen Fedora which Red Hat still has influence in. I would have thought they would make their own distro to be truly independent of American companies.

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I believe Valve just has a flat hierarchy, but not worker owned.

https://tech-coops.xyz/ seems to have a list of companies.

One answer to capitalist companies seeking to maximize profit at all costs are worker owned companies. When the workers are in control of the business decisions, they won’t vote for the decisions going against themselves.

Sadly, I don’t know that many worked owned tech companies. One example is https://www.igalia.com/

If more people would be willing to start work owned companies rather than your typical capitalist startup, we could have more options.

the ACI allows the bloc to select from a wide range of retaliatory measures, such as revoking the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, for example, software downloads and streaming services.

Holy hell that would be glorious to revoke protection of intellectual property of Big Tech.

The Steam Deck has power pass through so the battery doesn’t get worn down when plugged in: https://bloggedoff.com/2024/04/25/steam-deck-battery-lifespan-power-passthrough/

I didn’t have a platform chart either. I guess they only show it if you play on multiple platforms.

Linux only for me as well.

I think we need new parties to take these ideas forward. I would like to see some kind of new left party focused on degrowth and moving to a post capitalist economic system.

At least in Germany, die Linke is the associated party, which has recently collapsed and had historically been more communist with also some pro-russian supporters (now BSW).

The anti-tampering solution sounds like some trusted computing bullshit like on mobile where banking apps will refuse to run if your device has a custom rom or non-locked boot loader. This would be how anti-cheat software could continue to lock out linux.

The fact that it is a open linux device and I can launch in to KDE is the reason I got it. If it was some proprietary OS like other games consoles or Windows, I wouldn’t have bought it. The Steam Deck is such a breath of fresh air compared to how hostile other consumer electronics have become.