literally killing people, RatFucKjr.

it’s an association dedicated to freedom of expression, not the government.

yeah a standard charger would be nice, but I’m not sure the answer is USBC.

The Verge says:

These devices are too dang small, and the technology isn’t there yet. Most standard connectors, like USB-C, are too large to fit within a smartwatch or on devices that are meant to mold to your body. The smaller the device, the more difficult this becomes.

To which I say:

Bullshit!

Watches are small, but the USB-C connector isn’t massive.

The USBC plug may not be “massive” but it still adds more bulk to the watch.

it might be rubbish as both a watch, Android device, and masc-coded jewellery - but it shows that USB-C is viable for devices of this class.

just because cheap ass watches use USBC ports doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. you need to know how these USBC watches actually hold up in the long run before you make that judgement.

why not

it’s hard because you’re leaving the critical mass of users for niche communities. Lemmy only really works for large communities like this one.

so this is a game of telephone between activists, payment cards, payment processors, and vendors.

Also TIL mastercard HQ is located in Purchase, NY.

Is the EU not subject to GDPR?

so if you openly promise to do a thing on social media after people get tattoos with your company’s branding, and then don’t do that thing, surely that’s some kind of fraud, right?

you’re missing some context in that.

“The sale of a product… which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value… (such as… images of… Nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part”

insert joke about COD lacking artistic value, but clearly there is more to COD than just body mutilation.

for banned US app stores like Steam and Google Play.

now we get to see what happens with AI running wall street too!

yep just like all the AI regulations they’re deregulating.

hopefuly not, the IRS needs some way to track income based on the fluctuating value of crypto. yall gotta pay taxes like the rest of us.

no doubt china will be making a similar judgement for Tencent etc.

disagree.

• i stopped using most social media, and what little social media I do use now is FOSS like lemmy.

• I cancelled my youtubeTV subscription and now pirate all my media. Along with this I also stopped watching sports which have been greatly enshittified over my lifetime.

• I stopped using Plex (enshittifying) and switched to Jellyfin which is FOSS.

these actions have significantly reduced enshittification in my life. Not saying it’s possible for everything, but sometimes there absolutely are non-enshittified alternatives.

in this case, the specific action gives the entity an unfair advantage in the global market. Epic (with help from tencent) is suing US companies for antitrust laws, but tencent benefits from exactly that with stores like Steam and Google play outright banned in china. They have the entire chinese market to themselves and use the profit from that to push out further into the global market by doing stuff exactly like this.

Epic is ~40% owned by Tencent which is a chinese company that directly benefits from Chinese Governement sponsored monopolies. China legally banned US based stores like Steam and Google Play.

Epic is not here to do you favors, they are here to push Tencent and China’s global agenda.

depends how much chinese influence you want in the gaming market. They are already the biggest gaming company in the world.

It’s also a bit hypotritical for chinese companies to be suing US companies for antitrust laws when the Chinese government outright bans app stores like Steam and Google Play in their own country. They get to have their cake and eat it too, then use all the money they make in china to push out further into the world economy.

it’s also bankrolled by Tencent.