The only games that don’t run nowadays I think are the ones that require installing kernel malware so you might reconsider playing them regardless of your OS.

It was made default for rm command in 2006.

And slop company recently

You don’t legally own the games you purchase, just have the ability to use it(within legal terms and conditions) without the store.

More likely it’s a long term strategy not to lose money when Microsoft locks Windows ecosystem to their own store(they tried).

That’s actually pretty cool.

While we are at it ban Poland too for invading Iraq.

they have your IP address, phone number, some timestamps

they can see when you messaged, but not even things like who you messaged

If this was true they wouldn’t be able to deliver your message… to the receiver IP and phone number(which are more than enough for personal identification).

the reasons to switch basically start with WhatsApp is owned by Meta

So both are the US companies susceptible to backdoors and other USA shenanigans.

WhatsApp is closed source so it’s difficult to confirm if their implement is “correct”

Valid point, however I doubt that most(or any) of the people installing Signal now do it from f-droid or alternatives, so for them there’s no difference, they receive whatever Google/Apple give them which may be quite different from what’s in the source code.

they may have the ability to extract your keys from your device somehow

If they can then Signal can as well, right? Or more likely Google and Apple will. Same for your next points.

I mean not using anything Meta is good just because we know Meta is bad. But as I understand it any US company will have to store and provide metadata, logs, etc when the government agencies tell them to. With that context I don’t see much difference between using Signal or WhatsApp apart from the “Meta bad”(which in itself is a valid reason).

Weren’t it Signal devs who made e2e for WhatsApp? So what’s the point of switching?

Whoever willfully uses this shit is insane even without the recent ai slop.

MS says you need 6GB for windows to stay in ram

Wtf, what is there that needs so much ram?

The dog is King Charles for those wondering.

Because in practice none of these things in any way deterred countries from using their military and covered assets to practice imperialism.

In a way some of the things you mentioned were essential for this modern imperialism like NATO(just as one example of many it was NATO equipment, intel and training that allowed Azerbaijan invade Armenia), economic dependencies(invasion of Venezuela started with economic sanctions), movies, culture and the Internet(more specifically corporate owned social media) used for propaganda and controlling public narrative.

I do agree though that there are anti-war and anti-imperialism trends in Asia(we recently got to see China and India leaders shake hands, that’s very new and exciting), Africa and South America.

the general direction of world order has been moving against that sort of thing, and increasingly

What makes you think so?

a message to China and Russia that this is how the world works now.

It’s not now though, it’s how the US always did things regardless of the party currently in charge.

It’s a valid reason to not sanction the US. However no sanctions against other countries invading their neighbours suggest that just the Russian case is special.

Why? I mean if a gun could help you in that situation, some other non lethal stuff could have also been enough. At least those are enough for people not in the US facing similar situations.

There are plenty self defence tools apart from guns.

Sounds like some marketing slogan. What does it mean? It’s less secure than regular banking transactions in that you can’t undo it or return your money if you were scammed. It’s not anonymous nowadays for those seeking it. So as I understand it, it’s good for bad people. Not a new golden standard in the slightest.