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Their decisions seem to conveniently become 'mistakes' whenever there's public backlash...

Given the cost of replacing one's phone or computer, being pro-EU in terms of new purchases is far better than doing nothing at all.

In most cases, most release groups already fine tune encoding settings towards various balances of file size and quality, so the best option is to decide on a set of release group whose standards meet your needs and just use the files as they come without further modification.

Applying lossy compression to a video that's already had lossy compression applied to it degrades it unnecessarily, so if you're going to compress it yourself, it's best to start with the remux, aka the original media file.

I'd personally recommend releases from members of the qxr group and Vyndros.

Pretending to be 'pissed off' to distract the public from his pro-Russian stance neither hampers Russia's military campaign nor brings back lost Ukrainian lives.

Somewhat of a clickbait title, but hopefully the bug gets fixed all the same. 👍

A 'dispute' is when both parties have genuine complaints and are able to be negotiated with. Trump's starting a trade war for no reason, so doing nothing only serves to normalize his actions.

I guess when their teeth start falling out they'll just say that it's god's will for them to have less teeth. 🙄

Seems like the new spam technique is sending it as an image rather than text:

Russia doesn't have peace intentions, making helping Ukraine at every turn the only rational option.

Privacy and security isn't an all-or-nothing matter though. While a Pixel running GrapheneOS would indeed be more secure privacy-wise than an iPhone, not only would one have to be willing to do without a digital wallet, among other features that unfortunately have telemetry injected into them, but would still depend on the user not installing any of the common apps that would harvest data, even on a de-Googled phone.

"You can't sell them until I've flooded the market with all my shares first!" -fElon, probably

Apple disabled the feature in the UK because the alternative, per the British government, was to add a backdoor to it.

RT is a Russian propaganda outlet, full stop.

Apple charges unreasonably high profit margins on its products as its primary business model, along with locking down their ecosystem to push overpriced subscriptions to the detriment of competitors, to not need the same level of invasive data collection that powers Google's advertising business.

As long as corporate news outlets and social media platforms continue to control the narrative, they can spin stories in Trump's favor to keep his approval rating artificially high as he plunges the country into despotic wreck and ruin.

Versus Russian missiles 'accidentally' causing death and destruction in Poland near its border with Ukraine?

There's many reasons not to get an iPhone, but privacy worries, in contrast to Android, is not one of them.

Rather than take an all or nothing attitude on the matter, I certainly think your friend would be better off trying make smart choices with his data whenever possible. Ultimately though, it's something that he has to be motivated to do himself. Perhaps informing him of potential privacy risks would be helpful in that regard.

DC gets three electoral votes for presidential elections; it's Congress in which they're not represented.

The problem is that Apple's extensive marketing of Apple Intelligence has led to expectations that far surpass what the final product is likely to be.

Most people think generative AI is magic coming out of a hat, so even if Apple delivers at the same level as other companies, people will feel like they've been misled.

That's a symptom of Google holding a monopoly over search results.

Real reporting will always cost more to produce than AI-generated propaganda, and if the former has a paywall and the latter doesn't, people will inevitably end up reading the news that takes the least effort to produce, to the detriment of actual news reporting.

Requiring Google to both carry such content and pay for it at least ensures that it has an even footing with websites seeking to push propaganda instead.