Robin Liu, the OnePlus executive who recently dismissed rumors of the company shutting down, has now resigned and returned to China. OnePlus has confirmed the news, further stoking rumors about the brand’s future in key global markets.

Looks like they are indeed exiting markets outside of China.

Nah, American companies cannot be relied upon by definition. Even if the people running one are fine (and many are), they are still based in what is essentially a pro-crime, pro-corruption jurisdiction.

Dead Internet Company

We need non-US technology platforms. US business leadership has proven that they cannot be trusted.

While the US has always had oligarchic tendencies, from my experience living there for several years, the current wholistic debasement of governance and liberal democratic values is mostly self-inflicted by the population. It’s a choice.

A significant portion of the population are supportive of crime and corruption, another group simply don’t care and another group might understand that things are not going well, but they are too well off (on a relative global basis) to risk rocking the boat until it’s too late.

It’s not like the US is suffering from immense poverty with +50% of the country being illiterate (e.g. South Sudan) or has to deal with centuries of constant imperial attacks by a much larger neighbour or a multitude of truly challenging factors with respect to implementing good governance.

You mention the notion of productive outcomes. One can argue that by wholly ignoring the role of the public in the US becoming a full on chauvinistic oligarchy, one is moving away from productive outcomes. If an issue is related to the behaviour of the public, you won’t solve it by pretending the public had no role to play.

Happy to elaborate if you are interested. I know my reply was very high-level.

To hell with American technology platforms!

That’s not to say there aren’t (or can’t be) issues with platforms from other countries, but with platforms from US domiciled business entities you are unfortunately guaranteed to end up in a oligarchic quagmire with a giant serving of commitment to dishonesty, crime and corruption.

Even Mozilla became corrupted by US business types.

It sounds like he has way too much money and time on his hands.

I am aware of the difference between recovery options and sideloading applications. :) I’ve installed/used LOS (and other ROMs) multiple times and I am a heavy user of F-Droid and its applications.

Just pointing out that this is just one more reason to avoid Android (saying this a Samsung user).

After Google decided to ban sideloading (their alleged “change of heart” is increasingly looking like a PR exercise), I decided to not buy any more devices devices based on American platforms.

My A73 works fine, but I planning to get a Jolla phone later his year. Going to use both in parallel to aid in switching.

I do wish European banks and eGov services started porting their apps to SailfishOS.

This is definitely senior goons at Block engaging in some opportunistic PR.

has said he does not want the company’s A.I. to be used to surveil Americans or in autonomous weapons, saying this could “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”

This is how we know this is all PR bullshit (perhaps crafted ad-hoc, but still essentially a propaganda operation).

This was probably a requirement of some sort. I doubt the government would bother with something like this on their own initiative.

That being said, there are some really good sources for “unofficial” content in Ukraine. All the major international and local streaming content and major blu-ray (Rips/Remuxes) release in one spot and with speeds that allow streaming torrents (at least in Ukraine).

Some of the more niche content can be difficult to find (smaller country, local sites have requirement that Ukrainian dub/VO/subs must be included in addition to the original audio track), but you’re not going to find that content on mainstream US media sources.

I would imagine a Pi Zero is significantly more powerful than a 1999 desktop system.

Pi zero has a 1Ghz single core and 512 MB RAM. 1999 would be a P3, which started out from 500 MHz and I believe RAM was less 512 MB at that points.

And that’s just high level figures, that ignore faster RAM speed, massive improvements in IPC / CPU microarchitecture.

I would even speculate the hypothetical 3D capabilities of 1999 desktop could probably be simulated in software.

You’re welcome to discount what I am saying. To be honest, it sounds like you’ve made up your mind on this issue, even though you’re getting a lot of basic things wrong about market research and sanctions processes and corporate attitudes.

Can’t really help you on this one.

That’s really too bad, even without any technical knowledge of the code sharing system, it’s clear that this approach is done in bad faith.

I would much rather European companies ported their applications and services to a non-Google/non-ASOP platform. Having native e-government and applications would be a solid addition to make something like Sailfish OS more usable.

This is one area where European and Asian countries are way ahead of the US, things like e-govermernt (parts of Europe), simple and no/very low fee mobile payment systems (parts of Europe, India’s UPI system).

I am not trolling you. If what I said is a mere statement of personal opinion (and not tied to reality), then it should be simple for you to show why what I am saying is BS.

Instead you’re just going with “I am right! You’re wrong!” and you claim to not see the irony in that? Don’t buy it!

Come, on! I don’t believe you don’t see why I used the term “irony” in my post.

Sorry. I don’t buy it. You might disagree with what I am saying, but you almost certainly know why I thought your “I said so” and “statement of personal opinion” pieces are ironic.

https://godblesstheusabible.com/

What the fuck this is?

I strongly disagree.

I explained my reasoning with some clear examples. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, I am not going to write a 2,000 word wall of text unless I am having an interesting conversation.

There’s no such thing as common sense. Its just a way for people to claim their ideals as the standard because “I said so.”

I wonder if you see the irony in this statement and how it was presented “I said so”. :)