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The joke being that he didn't actually say it, same as Microsoft never stating 10 being the last version of Windows ever

But do they make the American models? Doubtful.

What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?

Your organization can't host a federated Signal server, and email isn't private.

Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that's still fully in development?

My previous organization has used it for over 4 years without issues, however mostly limited to text.

How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?

Simply using? Not very much, basically like Lemmy.

Believe it or not, even the thugs beating down protests enjoy western luxuries... Or not having 20% inflation.

Plus, enforcing your government's policies becomes a whole lot less attractive if all your neighbors dislike your employer. It all trickles down eventually.

And I don't know if you noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren't working that well... Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk

I'm in favor of more of them, but I don't think the current ones aren't working. It was clear from the beginning that they'd be escalating so that Russia has a way out. They're not using it so sanctions get worse.

Sure... Their anger will be directed at Putin, not at who actually imposed those sanctions.

I am worried that these sanctions will make them band together and support Putin even more.

And then what? They'll go to war even harder? And if Putin is such a good leader, why doesn't he just have Russia produce alternatives to the goods and services under sanctions?

The old status quo without sanctions got the world into the current situation. Why would keeping it the same fix it?

One could also make the opposite case for your logic: I am worried that without sanctions, people will see Putin as a strong leader, and as such hand together and support him even more.

We are entering the era of cyber-warfare, nation-state counter hacking, software and hardware sabotage, underground black and grey markets for both hardware and software.

We have entered that territory at least 10 years ago.

The rest I agree with. But I also think this is in fact the right move: you need to create pressure that hurts both the leadership and the people.

In the face of death, the occupiers show their true essence. They throw their helmets hysterically, fight back with automatic weapons, try to escape, but get what they deserve.

The true essence being... afraid of dying? I'd probably react the same.

Whether each individual deserves this is questionable. Though this doesn't mean I don't approve of the Ukrainian measures, in fact I support these fully,

However, as I'm not Ukrainian, my view on the matter is naturally different from someone's who is currently being invaded. So I do get the sentiment. Just that I don't want to celebrate it

Qualcomm paying as much as other licensees should be preferable to Qualcomm than bankruptcy.

Not saying this is wrong, but where do you get it from? The article just states that ARM considers Qualcomm's acquisition of Nuvia a breach of license. Both companies held ARM licenses before. What's the issue with such a purchase?

What that monopoly got us: The C programming language, UNIX, UTF-8, among others

What the current tech monopolies yielded: yachts for the upper management

Welcome to Lemmy!

Unfortunately, I think most of the users here have no insight into every day Chinese life - myself included... in fact if not from your post, I would have had no idea this is a thing.

Anyhow, this is disgusting behavior, and I can't really rationalize it.

Though for a lot of people, the source of grievance is pretty abstract. They could be victims of the system, and taking it revenge in that is difficult.

Judging by the downvotes, a larger part of the Lemmy userbase won't understand this