Bigger problem, copyright was never meant to last so long. As technology has advanced it becomes possible to make more media more quickly, so if anything copyright terms should have been shrunk, but they've been extended instead.

The single most important thing to fix about copyright is reducing the terms.

It was worth a go, but it was always a long shot. You could interpret the current rules as requiring some of this stuff, but it's a hard case to make. Either way, it was probably necessary to demonstrate that the current rules are inadequate.

Learn to read, troll.

Moto phones bought direct have no unremovable crapware.

The European Commission is the EU's civil service. Petitioning it was always a long shot, because for them to act you have to convince them that there is a good case within existing EU rules. They aren't there to make new rules, they are there to enforce the existing ones.

They have effectively said that existing consumer protection rules don't extend far enough to force publishers to make offline patches and server code available, but in their opinion do offer some of the things being asked for already and so the petitioners should contact their state consumer rights body.

To get a change in the rules, it needs to go through the European Parliament and the elected MEPs. That's how democracy works. Elected officials make the rules, civil servants enforce them.

On Windows you can also use a package manager like Winget or Chocolatey. To disable auto updates, go to Firefox's preferences and search for "update", it's right there as a toggle.

There is also Librewolf that is a Firefox fork, or really more of a version with the default settings changed for maximum privacy, as I don't think there is much change to the code itself.

FF on Android doesn't crash for me. It used to, but it's come a long way. The main issue at the moment is the crappy UI for tab handling.

Obviously they didn't make this phone, it's rebadged. There are lots of flip phones you can buy direct from China if you want that form factor. Software wise, Android lets you uninstall or disable even built in apps, or install your own OS.

Like their FPGA based C64, you are paying for convenience and having a common platform with support. It's like how there are cheaper SBCs than the Raspberry Pi, but it's very well supported and understood by the community.

Not only the retail investors. Many experts were questioning his financials in the run up to that IPO, but not the SEC. The SEC more or less just bent over for him and do whatever he wants. Now millions of Americans will have their 401Ks hitched to that company. And he controls 80-85% percent of it, so there is no oversight. The investors better hope he's some kind of genius, but if he fuck ups, he will fuck up hard.

The SEC is suppose to guard against market manipulation. However, in this alleged administration they ARE the market manipulation.

They probably do. That's the whole point of this odd neither fish nor fowl phone. It's for people who'd, for whatever crazy reason don't want a smartphone, but also don't want to be locked out of all the parts of modern society that have become dependent upon smartphone apps (for better or worse).

In my neck of the woods, you need a smartphone just to summon what passes here for public transportation. I'm totally not kidding.

The Trump T1 phone is just a gilded HTC U24 Pro. The controversial aspects of it are entirely related to its association with the president, and that it was originally claimed that it would be US-made. As far as its actual smartphone functionality goes though, it is an entirely unremarkable mid-range Android phone.

This Commodore phone, on the other hand, is a far more niche product with some substantial limitations compared against what the market typically expects.

IMHO, it just feels more douchey to me when someone goes all old man yells at cloud because things change but they're stubbornly stuck in the past. Reminds me of this skit.

Personally, I like just ordering my food on my smartphone and it just magically appears on a counter for me to grab without having to deal with a human.

I kind of miss physical qwerty keyboards, but definitely have no nostalgic feelings for the awful era of T9 texting. The problems with physical keyboards though, is that you either have to give up a bunch of screen space, or end up with a real chonker of a folding/sliding phone to accommodate the keyboard portion. It's been tried and for the most part ends up being too much compromise for something that, unless you're writing a novel on your phone, you probably don't actually need.

The T9 style flip phone design (which is what this phone is) is really the worst of both worlds - it wastes a ton of space that otherwise could've gone towards a larger screen and is still absolute garbage for text entry.

I've actually had the polar opposite of that experience once. Prior to Tesla opening their network to non-Tesla EVs, I tried charging at a OUC DCFC charger in Orlando. Had no end of problems with their poorly designed app and was completely unable to charge. Ultimately just decided to drive slowly on back roads and made it home anyway.

It'd be less of an issue if charging stations were as ubiquitous as gas stations, but as things currently stand, the situation of "oops, I can't charge here because they require an app" might result in you becoming stuck somewhere enroute to the next charger that hopefully takes credit cards.