Who told you he was Hungarian?

He did.

Can you trust that, any more than anything else he said?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Under the current regime, he’d probably be replaced with someone younger and even worse who’d be on the court for fifty years.

It’s easy to do that and then say “whoops, mistake!” if Taylor Swift isn’t going to use her billionaire status to crush them with lawsuits.

She didn’t do it with Twitter when it was generating nudes of “her”, so I doubt she’ll do it with chatbots.

So they’ll keep doing it.

Well I don’t want stock android, do I? I can hope Apple aren’t selling my personal data. I know that Google would. I’ve de-googled my life, I’m not going back.

It would be amazingly risky for Apple to hide backdoors in their products. One of their big selling points is their reputation for taking user data privacy seriously. If it ever came out that they’d helped a government by violating that, their credibility would be shot and they’d lose a noticeable percentage of customers overnight.

That’s not good business, so I don’t think they’d risk it.

I’ve not read anything suggesting they are. I’d imagine this would be quite a big story if anyone has any evidence of it, and the Trump regime is incapable of keeping its mouth shut.

Plus someone from Apple would leak it. Even if you genuinely believe Tim Apple is sucking trump’s dick, you can’t believe the entire company supports that.

I knew someone would say that.

What are my other options?

I’ve gotten away from Microsoft and Android.

I need a phone that can run modern banking apps, so I can’t run some janky Linux OS just for hyper privacy.

I also need something my parents can use, since they’re all in on Apple at the moment too. I don’t live close enough to regularly visit to do on site tech support, and honestly, not my idea of fun anyway.

For better or worse, Apple is it at the moment.

I’m not saying that appeasement is always the way, but I’d rather Apple stayed off Trump’s vindictive side by giving him a little shiny toy then by giving them (for example) user data or backdoors into their platform.

Yes, in an ideal world, they’d tell the whole administration to go fuck itself, but they also don’t want to be destroyed by the government (however illegal that may be, do you really think they’d survive long enough for all the legal challenges to go through the system if Trump decided Apple had to go?)

I’ve not tried this, but I’ve heard that once they realise they’re two AIs talking to each other, they switch to some R2D2-style language which is quicker and more efficient than English…

Amazon spent billions to buy the company and millions more to get the legacy producers out of the way. I’m sure they want a return on that.

So if they are going to make more, we as consumers want then to be good, don’t we?

No, just a shitty kettle.

Shakespeare invented literature, so clearly there’s no value in teaching anything from before him…

Bloody shoppers!

But at least he’d have tried… history remembers that too.

Do it. We’ll adjust and hopefully take it as a kick up the arse to increase speed on the transition from gas.

Whereas they’ve just stood up in front of the world and said “we can only operate by violating human rights, which we are absolutely doing”

To adapt the Mitchell and Webb sketch… yes, you’re the baddies.

Because the way to increase government revenue is to raise taxes, and businesses and the rich can afford to lobby against that for them, so it means raising taxes for the poorest.

Which doesn’t raise that much and is always unpopular.

Genuine question - what device do you have that has USB-C ports, no USB-A ports, doesn’t have WiFi, but supports the dongle?

“I didn’t think the leopards world eat my face”, cried person who voted for the Leopards Eating Faces Party

If you vote for a fascist, you’re a fascist.