I know it is not a payment processor but I think this needs more attention to what it got. The biggest smart card manufacturer was French. If they died (the company still exists but is a shadow of what it was), you’d have to thanks the NSA for it.

The English Wikipedia is lacking but you’ll find more details here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemplus

The USA is fighting dirty to keep its position overall and we are not responding at all.

No, but they do replace the honey with sugar syrup

No, I hate what Apple is doing.

I’m already doing a lot of that but… Those are workarounds for an item I own. My point is: I would like to use my smart TV as a smart TV and not have any o fight the manufacturer. I guess I’ll have to give plasma big screen a go.

I want to be able to access YouTube, Twitch, etc. from my TV. I already self host as much as I can. But I have not find a good solution for those services.

Like which one

Yeah except fuck all those devices. I want a degoogled smart TV.

See that’s the deal. Their prison is a mansion by the beach with Alfred doing mojitos.

No, it’s called the basic business model for tech companies since years. Sadly.

A bubble popping would be when people start asking for their ROI or sell.

happily updates its birthdate to 2018-01-01 you can’t blame me now. Take that, woke people.

This does not work because he will find a way to have 0 income (legally). I don’t know how we can make the billionaires pay, but we should tax the assets not the incomes.

I already have Ansible to manage my system and I like to have the same base between my pc and my server build muscle memory.

If I was managing a pc fleet I would consider NixOS, but I don’t see the appeal right now.

You can save even more money by shutting down Atlassian and all its trash products

Lol

LTT mentioned ACHTUNG ACHTUNG🚨

I am not saying you are. I am saying there are a lot of valid reasons and it is not as simple as “if I do it I am for it but when big bad company does it it is bad”.

I support piracy because I think:

• consolidation ruins concurrency
• I hate ads in services I pay for
• copyright laws kills creativity
• the USA is lobbying the entire world to adopt their view and fuck them
• those laws are there to benefit big companies and not individuals
• it is legal where I live because we pay state tax to have access to media

First they need to destroy your income, then they can make you do whatever they want

They don’t need an economy. They need obedient workers

A company in Europe has to respect patents. Same for a company in the USA. Not a company in China. Of course this has an impact. Failing to grasp this is at best naive at worst purposefully misleading.