You misspelled "intrusive".

Certainly. But then, those non-Brazilian companies can mock-comply. Then Brazilians will continue using them all the same, in standard Brazilian fashion, with companies and people pretending to obey the law, the government pretending to enforce it, and everyone knowing everyone else is pretending but having no way to prove it.

Case in point, those external companies seem to be using Cloudflare's georestriction rules, which is fine with us, as everyone is quickly learning to use VPNs.

No, that's not it. It's a cultural difference. In first world countries skirting the law is something people do exceptionally. In countries such as mine, it's a way of life and survival, everyone skirting the laws because the laws aren't really meant to be followed in full, they're mean to be tool the government uses when it deems useful. If someone were to try, they'd be crippled to such an extent they'd be barely able to do anything, at all.

First world countries are so, in great part, because most laws are sane, mean to be followed by everyone, and most everyone does so. Although, granted, there's nowadays a level of "third-world-ization" going on there, what with more and more laws being approved that are similar to our more than they are to your old laws. I hope this process may stop and reverse at some point, but if not, well, once your legal system is fully corrupted, we'll be able to provide you with plenty of suggestions, tips, and tricks, on how to evade unjust laws, as we have literal centuries of experience doing so.

I'm Brazilian. The law has an article that allows regulatory bodies to define something as not being affected by the law if that's in the public interest, so it's likely the government will use that to classify everything they have no means to actually police as being fine. Which means this law can be actively enabled or disable to affect anyone the government wants affected, meaning mostly companies with deep pockets who can be fined for lack of compliance. Going after those without any money would be a waste of time for enforcers.

Also, Brazil has something first world countries lack: a population used to disregarding laws we dislike. People here have already developed plenty of workarounds for age verification in websites, and once it starts popping up on phones and PCs, will do the same. Since most already use a pirated Windows, they'll simply have that pirated Windows come without age verification.

He had WiFi or 4G on the aircraft carrier? I don't think so.

And if the Strava app uploaded the logged run later when it got connectivity at port or something, by then the ship was long gone.

> "The cloud" just means "Somebody elses C: drive"

Nah. Nobody is dumb enough to run a cloud service on Windows.

Let me get this straight: unless scientists go straight to the cure of all cancers plus eternal youth provided in a single pill you take once for $1, all medical research is useless. After all, one must never, ever, start small, with an easier, achievable, controllable target, and improve iteratively upon it to develop better knowledge, better tools, better techniques, slowly developing a new bioengineering field, no sir! It's either absolute perfection right this very instant, or not at all!!!

Is this a case of extreme reading comprehension failure? Here, let me "translate" the summary then:

"Scientists found that we can plant potatoes on the Moon by shipping, with rockets, 1 pound of compost for every 50 pounds of lunar soil we want to use for planting potatoes, and those moon-planted potatoes will be nutritious enough to feed moon colonists. One problem though is that moon-planted potatoes will have more metals than is safe for human consumption, so further research is needed to fix that."

Is that clearer?

Keep your energy to provide it to Canadians for cheaper. The US has plenty of oil and coal I've been told.

and all the disgusting corporations putting profits above people's livelihoods along with it.

That is all.

I run Debian 13 and Chromium has been available as a package for a long time.

So I'm not sure why you would want to wait for Google to release Chrome on ARM, since it's essentially Chromium with Google's nastyware added to it. Just use Chromium.

As a foreigner who never travelled to the US, theee are the risks I'm aware-ish of from reading and watching news both in my native tongue and in English, from both American and British news sources, were I to try and travel to the US.

To try and obtain a VISA, I'd need to provide, for the last 'n' years:

* All my social media account handles.
* All my email addresses.
* All my phone numbers.
* And for my active social media accounts, I'd need to set them to public.

I'm not doing any of that, so for that reason alone I wouldn't be trying to get a VISA to begin with. Many researchers and other people similarly wouldn't want to. So any event would, for that reason alone, miss a lot of VIPs.

Now, for those who don't mind doing that, they get to the US and there's the going through customs. There, we learn that:

* My phone, laptop, tablet etc. can be taken and their entire contents copied, for any reason whatsoever.
* They may request me to unlock my chat apps and look into the chat groups I take part in.
* If they find, either in their copy of my storage, or in the groups I chat in, criticisms of US policies, even tame ones, they may decide to refuse entry.

I don't like Trump and I speak negatively of several of his policies, both international and domestic. Ditto for Vance's, Rubio's, Hegseth's, RFK Jr.'s etc. And I talk a lot about those. News sources have shown cases of researchers who were refused entry because of memes. So why would I want to risk that humiliation?

Which is why the EU recommends people visiting the US with any kind of sensitive data to only carry formatted phones, laptops etc. with them, and to download their data from a cloud provider only after they've crossed US customs. The same policy, notice, they recommend to those visiting China.

And then, supposing I do cross customs and I'm in the US, then at some point, being a foreigner and therefore having friends who are also foreigners who live in the US, if I visit them (which I would), I run the risk of running into ICE, who have the legal right to detain me for days despite the fact I'd have a valid VISA, also for any reason whatsoever. Sure, after what might range from hours to days to weeks I would most likely be released. But why would I want the risk, small as it may be, of running into that headache, when I don't need to?

As far as I know, that's how most other countries perceive things. Is it accurate? No idea. But the widespread global opinion is that one only goes to the US if one really, really needs. Otherwise, it's best to avoid it. After all, there are dozens of other destinations with much better reputations on how they treat foreign visitors.

Now I definitely know I don't want a Galaxy phone as my next phone.

So, what does it feel to try causing in me an emotional reaction, but failing?

Big Tech will buy the latest and greatest in power generation / suppliers, and the general population will be left with the legacy power infrastructure that will keep on aging and becoming more and more obsolete, because domestic power isn't where the big money is.