Warren Buffett and Richard Branson seem to be OK for billionaires as well.

Fuck that. The whole reason that I buy Samsung is because they have viable alternatives to all the Google apps. Google is a shit company and completely untrustworthy.

I use Samsung Messages. It works fine for SMS and MMS. Samsung Smart Switch copies your message history across when you get a new phone. You can disable the RCS and AI crap. I really don't want to be using Google applications if I can avoid it. I don't want them getting their dirty mitts on my data. One of the best things about a Samsung phone was that there were alternatives to all the Google crap. There's no reason to buy Samsung if they're moving away from that.

Nah, it's supposed to be to verify that you haven't given the device/account/whatever to an underage person. It's to verify each year that the current user of the device/account/whatever isn't underage, not just the person who was using it the first time age verification was done.

Why do US politicians seemingly love to cut off their nose to spite their face so much? I can't think of another country where something as stupid and wasteful could happen without enough public outrage that it would result in the government being removed one way or another.

China isn't the one running a ham-fisted trade war, starting multiple shooting wars wars and threatening to annex their supposed allies. The USA is screwing over everyone. China looks like the safer bet at this point.

Yahoo Mail is still a thing, and they run news aggregation sites in a bunch of regions, often partnering with a local TV station or newspaper.

People joke about Linux being unstable, and having usability issues, when was the last time a major Linux distribution completely bleeped home directory access? I've never seen it, and I've been using Linux since 1999, maybe 1998. Let's be clear, you could do through incompetence, but that's of your own destruction, and if you did, you could easily get it back.

Off the top of my head, a RHEL/CentOS 7 update package for GRUB rendered a lot of systems unbootable. SuSE used to use ReiserFS by default, which had a nasty habit of pulling in anything that looked vaguely like directory data when you did a scavenge, so you had to ensure you never had a disk image of a ReiserFS volume anywhere, and hope you didn't have anything that looked similar enough. There have been plenty of breaking bugs in Linux distros.

You heard about this kind of stuff happening in the US before AI. You're a police state - the police act with impunity like this, destroying innocent people's lives and facing no consequences. You should remind all those legal gun owners of their responsibility to overthrow the tyrants.

If a Prius can tow stuff, that's a change from the previous situation. Back around 2007, the Prius wasn't approved for towing at all in Australia.

Prove yo mama's not pregnant!

There were a pile of the usual idiots commenting on every related story here insisting it had to be a pregnancy. Where are they now so we can laugh at them for being wrong about one more thing?

I'm in Australia, too. Politician's faces on buildings happens here, but more at the local government (council) level. Clover Moore (lord mayor of City of Sydney) absolutely loves slapping her face all over things. It's pretty obnoxious.

Have you been to China or Viet Nam? I realise they're both only nominally communist (they're highly capitalist planned economies). But government buildings aren't adorned with politicians' faces.

It lost what made it good years ago. Back in the early to mid '00s, it was a good way to sell random stuff, or buy random second hand stuff. I sold a set of tyres, a set of roof racks, a water distiller, and a bunch of other stuff, and bought a bunch of things. But since then, it's morphed into a storefront for businesses where individuals selling random stuff often lose completely due to the fee structure.