Or they're like me in their late 40s and early 50s with a bit of money behind them, mortgage almost paid off or paid off and just said "fuck it I can't be arsed anymore." I'm a lorry driver here in the UK, a "trucker" in American. I've spent the last 15 years aggressively saving and investing, I've got enough "fuck you money" that I no longer have to work if I don't want to. I'd already cut my days down last year to four. This year I'm down to 2 to 3 days - I've actually only worked one this week - and will be taking the entirety of August off in addition to the 33 days pro-rata paid annual leave I also get. I did toy with just stopping altogether.

I think it's more that people have figured out that they don't need to buy new phones every year or even every couple of years and that the improvements are so minute now that people struggle to notice the difference. Marques Brownlee recently did a Youtube video taking the same photo on every generation of iPhone from the original iPhone to the iPhone 17 and once you got to the iPhone 12 and later there was little difference with many people actually saying that 2-3 year older generations of iPhone took better photos than the current iPhone 17.

Britain actually has very good libel laws you actually have to prove you experienced harm as a claimant and if you lose you pay the costs of the winning side. You can't just file frivolous libel lawsuits like the USA. It's why Trump isn't suing the BBC in the UK.

Speech is still freer in the UK than that supposed bastion of Free Speech the USA.

The UK government held an online consultation. Tens of thousands of people under 21 responded to it and 84% of those respondents wanted it.

Hell no. Just hell no to everything about this. What's to stop the AI agent just going off on a hallucination and just maxing out your card with shit? And if that happens then who gets to pay the resulting bill because it sure as fuck won't be ChatGPT or whatever AI platform you're using who will take responsibility.

Those regulations also apply to US companies operating in the EU.

Android phones are only cheaper because they're subsidised by the makers getting paid for installing applications you can't remove like Facebook and for selling your data to data brokers. If android phones came with stock Android and no data sharing the manufacturers would have to increase their cost.

My 12 month Premium sub ended a week ago, I was contemplating on whether to continue subscribing, already a bit reluctant to due to the amount of AI slop on it and this will just make it ten times worse. This has made my decision much easier. Now to decide where to go next.

Upset that the rest of the world now sees the USA and it's people for what you truly are and that we're turning away from you in ever increasing numbers?

It's also unclear how the regime could force tech giants to comply, as they are barred from making payments to Iran due to strict US sanctions; as a result, the companies themselves may view Iran's statements as posturing rather than serious policy.

That sounds like a them problem. Just because the US has sanctions against companies making payments to Iran doesn't mean Iran can't levy charges and take action if those do not get paid. US law only applies to the US, not the rest of the world. It will be for those companies targetted to find a way to pay the bill.

I think that it's been proven more then sufficiently. We even have "parents" sitting their months old babies in front of a tablet for hours a day.

When wildfires that are now happening at a historic rate are burning your home down and the fire department can't fight them because the local datacenters have sucked up all the water then remember you were quite happy with the cause of your woes.

Arch Linux only gets stuff I choose to install installed on it.