Yeah sad thing is I can understand Starlink being the only option for some people, so yeah I wouldn’t blame you for using it.

Honestly people would have to be basically mad to buy tesla now, same with twitter etc.

I sympathise with people who starlink is the only option but yeah I’d rather go without.

Not going to lie if I was Danish I’d probably be feeling Anti American enough to start giving China the mining contracts instead. That way if Trump does invade he’s not only going against Nato but also China.

That said it should probably be in the hands of the Greenlanders themselves but not sure a referendum is wise looking at the likes of Brexit etc.

It could be if it’s really old but yeah whatever it was it was Google’s top result if you searched linux in Google for quite a while. I think the one I read was a bit more malicious and less Jokey about it.

Remember the first time I read about Linux (long time ago) and they were basically calling it a communist os (not even joking) first site on Google at the time was all about how it was unpatriotic to use it etc.

Was watching bbc news interview some American guy about this and wow they were really pushing that it’s no big deal and deepseek is way behind and a bit of a joke. Made claims they weren’t under cyber attack they just couldn’t handle having traffic etc.

Kinda making me root for China honestly.

I heard they are under ddos attack.

If you really wanted it from an official store you could just sideload huaweis appgallery I have it on my phone due to having one of their smartwatches.

Stores rubbish really but yeah I’m pretty sure it would be a great way to get TikTok.

Not the protestant side, they still vote Dup no matter what nonsense they do or scandals they have. Most of them actually voted Brexit because the Dup told them too.

But yeah who knows it’s definitely made it more possible.

To be honest I’m N Irish and we voted against Brexit but are deemed irrelevant due to England. But yeah it absolutely pisses me off to see the English politicians sucking Trump off when we would have been way better off not just being morons and staying in the EU.

Its infuriating to see the UK falling apart when every country except England voted against Brexit but somehow their vote counts double or something.

UK is a wreck and we should just start from scratch and also I can’t see America as anything but an enemy right now (they are obviously siding with both Russia and Israel) both sides I disagree with honestly.

Yep it has no content at all I would ever want to watch and I tried to give it a fair shake. That said I recognise YouTube is pretty much the Monopoly of all Monopolys and don’t know how to fix that.

Yeah I think along the same lines can only hope if servers are compromised like this they get defederated immediately to make a point, ultimately though I think the design of the fediverse pretty much keeps it safe but some servers may unfortunately face consequences

Not saying you are wrong if anything though I think Reddit is probably the next obvious victim after TikTok they’ll simply point to the Chinese Tencent who own shares and the next thing you know Musk will be part owner.

Fediverse I think will probably be the last hit simply because it’s small and because of the design can’t be hit easily, wouldn’t surprise me if they just targeted the biggest servers though.

Bane of my life as about a year ago my dad switched his sim and immediately started pestering me about not being able to log into his accounts.

Yes he got rid of the old number completly and expected me to somehow make his logins work. This is still going on to this day when he complains to me something doesn’t work it’s because he’s tied it to his old phone number.

I’ve never had even a single Facebook account, to explain why it’s because the UK police once tried to stitch me up and they kept demanding my Facebook account (presumably to fish) I never had one but they would not let that go.

Once I got representation that line of questioning ended but holy hell did they seem to put a lot of emphasis on my non existent Facebook account.

For the curious I was raided due to an anonymous phone (to the mayor’s office) call that claimed I was going to shoot up my workplace or something ridiculous.

My belief is the police wanted to impress the mayor so they just wouldn’t let it go despite being nonsense until I paid representation to make them behave.

They are refillable at least the lost mary bm6000 is (only one I’m familiar with), it’s actually pretty easy and gives you 10ml in a very small device a big advantage over normal vapes where in the UK the tank can only be 2ml.

They really need to either change that law (2ml is nothing) or start designing reusable vapes that attach the bottle in the same way so you don’t have to constantly refill.

To me the advantage is a small size and the 10ml container being cleverly attached to skirt a silly law.

The big puff vapes you mention can have the battery’s swapped (and charged) and are refillable, they are still a waste though because they only last as long as the coil. But it’s a step in the right direction.

I suspect when the ban comes in they’ll just make the coil changeable and keep selling them as there’s no real reason they actually couldn’t be doing that now.

Next to be introduced the fish and chip tax.

I’d say the stuff in Belfast tastes pretty terrible and I wouldn’t drink it, when I was a kid though it was better than now. I’m honestly not sure I’d risk my tap water even if I bought a filter.

I use signal but I always kind of wanted to switch people to threema but in reality it’s hard enough getting them to install signal.