I prefer the old one, but it’s really not much of a difference. New one looks a bit cheaper, like something you’d see on piracy sites or something.

Also just realised Jellyfin basically has the old YouTube design. Don’t know if YT was first with it, but if so it was pretty influential, think it’s quite common in many players.

Of course not, to even entertain this idea is ridiculous.

An EU-China summit will be held in July, both sides announced.

Don’t know why, but this feels hype.

TFW Chinese EV makers aren’t even competing with western ones anymore, only among themselves.

This OS isn’t made by the EU, but it’s goal is to become sponsored by them:

Is EU OS a project of the European Union?

Right now, EU OS is not a project of the European Union. Instead, EU OS is a community-led Proof-of-Concept. This means it is lead by a community of volunteers and enthusisasts.

The project goal is to become a project of the European Commission in the future and use https://code.europa.eu/. For this EU OS is in touch with the public administration on member state and EU level. So far, EU OS relies on https://gitlab.com/eu-os.

Personally I don’t see why EU wouldn’t just go with Suse. It has the corporate support that I guess these government institutions crave, it’s a good system as far as I know and it’s home-grown. Ubuntu is another option, Canonical is a British company (not EU anymore but it is European).

What? Having Chrome become Chromium and Android being degooglified would be pretty huge?

Sorry, I realise this is half-joking and not at all the point of your post, but I find it interesting…

Otoh, I really don’t want to learn chinese, meh

It’s unlikely to become the lingua franca over night, especially since Chinese already speak English (well, the ones you’re likely to come in contact with). Maybe your grand-children will learn it in school though.

Apart from the characters and pronunciation, the latter of which is probably quite easy if taught at an early age, Chinese is quite straightforward. There’s no regular vs irregular verbs because there are no inflections at all - no cases, no tenses, no plural forms. Just plop the words down in the right order and you’re done. And as a second language, I guess we would only use pinyin until quite late in school.

My impression as an outsider (some, but limited, exposure to Finnish politics) is that the Finns have the right way of dealing with these far right, maybe. What they always do it seems like is to create a coalition government of the largest parties, including the far right. This keeps them from riding the underdog wave of support for years, and exposes their incompetence in real political issues (usually these parties only have one well-formulated stance, and that is anti immigration - that’s the solution to every single other issue).

I’m welcome to criticism if my outsider perspective is misinformed. (-:

I used to be in this camp, but will now avoid public toilets whenever possible. Not having to sit on others pee and butt sweat is pretty awesome.

If a tariff falls on a product category but no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound?

Automating this system with some kind of algorithm is not right, but a nearly blind 70-year-old can still do damage? The angle here is weird.

160 people is a very tiny force, feels unlikely that this is China’s official (official between Russia and China) contribution. China is a country with twice the population of Europe, and 160 guys is all they send to help?

This explanation feels more likely:

One of the captured soldiers claimed he paid 300,000 rubles (roughly $3,000) to a middleman in China to join the Russian military in exchange for the promise of citizenship, Ukraine’s Luhansk military unit press service told Ukrainian Pravda earlier in the day.

When linking the video above, I noticed they have a newer one kind of on this topic. I found it interesting, maybe you will too: Europe’s Military is Weak - But Is That America’s Fault?

Is this a rhetoric question? Because if you have the answer I’m interested to know.

If not, I don’t know. At 2:18 this video references a previous attempt to re-arm Europe, and that one of the reasons it never got through was because the US didn’t like it. It seems to be referencing the Saint-Malo declaration, but I’ve yet to be able to confirm US role in this.

Well, getting US out of Europe is probably a good thing in the long run. In the short run, maybe not so sure. That’s a lot of troops to replace.

We are? I was under the impression that this had stopped, and that we now only do so indirectly in ways that are difficult to track (e.g. India importing raw materials from Russia, refining and shipping it to Europe).

Fully agree with your analysis that most of this is about Trumps ego and an attempt at asserting power.

Surely there is zero political support for this in Europe. Of course we’re hurting badly from the tariffs, but at least in my circle I don’t see anyone supporting bending over to any demand he sends us.

Almost as soon as Trump was reelected, von der Leyen suggested opening negotiations to buy more American liquefied natural gas (LNG). But POLITICO reported that the U.S. had, in response, offered no clarity about how a deal would work.

Don’t quite follow this though, does the EU need more fossil fuels? Aren’t we moving away from it? Is this aimed at replacing russian natural gas?

I don’t think that’s true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it’s diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the “Five races under one union” (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the “Three Principles of the People” formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It’s foundational to both Chinese republics.

(but if we’re talking about the language, then “Chinese” is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)

I feel this might stop enshittification. Look at Firefox, enshittification stems from a need to turn a profit and how difficult it is to do that in a decent way for a web browser. A privacy-centered email service on the other hand is an attractive product, and probably enough(?) to keep the email client running.

Unfortunate though that Mozilla is a US company.

Of the companies mentioned, only DapuStor is from mainland China from what I can tell?

6 days a year is quite a bit, but also the frequency at which it comes up in conversation is not really relevant to whether people want/don’t want?