EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech
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Pardon my ignorance but what does deregulating the single Market mean?
There is a big push from EU at the moment to reduce "red tape" to make it easier for business, see for example mastodon post from EC a few hours ago:
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Aren't drop shippers finished with the recent tariffs, especially closing the loophole of de minimis?
For you guys. Amazon canada will still be infested with them, for instance. Also that's assuming the dropshippers don't just reroute their stuff to whoever has the lowest tariffs before delivering it here, like how lindt is moving all it's delivery back into Europe so that they can go around the US to deliver to places like Canada.
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Which is nowhere comparable to infecting your stuff with malware...
Which is a thing that's happened on Steam twice this month thanks to update loopholes and some outbound link fuckery. Also anti-cheat is kernel level, which is why you can't play a lot of multiplayer games on Linux, but you don't see a lot of PC games forgoing it because the alternative is being unplayable. Turns out some idiot Sony music exec (which is literally a separate company from Sony interactive) was ahead of the curve on the new normal, much as I also hate it lol
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Amazon is barely a thing here in Sweden. It’s niche drop shipped garbage for the most part, very similar to Wish and the like.
They have some non-garbage stuff at the same price you find elsewhere.
They also don’t do logistics here. Utterly useless company.
Yeah they pulled out of QC so if I wasn't so close to Ontario they'd be completely useless for me in canada too. Not that I haven't avoided them for big purchases like computer stuff already, gonna have to look what general marketplaces we have otherwise lol
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Me too. A good written guide is always way more effective. There rare today though
Shout-out to Gamers Nexus for making a written site for all their content https://gamersnexus.net/ tho i recognize that's not very helpful for avoiding American lol
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That entirely depends on who deeply they've locked themselves into a single-vendor set of services. If they used an abstraction tool to hide vendor-specific implementation detail, and were moderately smart, it'd take little besides minor config changes, redeployment and some regression testing.
Source: I've done it.
were moderately smart
This is mostly the problem in a lot of cases. A lot of companies don't pay you to be smart... they pay you to be "efficient" which normally means cheap.
Good and skilled people may be in a lot of these companies... but their hands may be tied in terms of choices.
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inertia is a thing, but just by having new EU projects avoid the big three you'd already have done a world of good to the IT ecosystem.
100%
Germany is providing an open source solution to gsuite (which I haven't looked at yet) but am told it's pretty good. More open and more choice is great.
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The manufacturers don't have to provide open source drivers, They could offer the drivers to other companies besides Google though. Why do you suppose they don't?
I'm not sure why you think manufactuers of SoCs - which aren't used by Google directly - provide drivers to Google. They don't, because there is no point in doing that. This is not how the Android eco-system works or the business of selling those SoCs for that matter. SoC manufactuers sell their SoCs to companies who want to build Android phones (or they build their own like Samsung). With those SoCs they provide a BSP (board support package) that includes all the bits needed to bring up a system running on that partricular SoC. Google has pretty much nothing to do with this, except that Google recommends a certain Linux kernel version (with a bunch of Android-specific patches) for a given Android version, which SoC makers often (but not always) use as the base for their customized kernels.
It is not like Google provides the operating system including all device specific drivers to the device manufacturers. They don't care about that at all. They provide AOSP (which is open source, so anyone can get that) as well as their proprietary stuff like Google Play etc. That's pretty much it.
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deregulating
Nope. Nope-nopety-nope, leave this american bullshit where it belongs.
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I've switched to Hetzner and I'm super happy. Fuck DigitalOcean and their ever increasing prices.
I'm at Hetzner für 10-15 years now.
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There is a big push from EU at the moment to reduce "red tape" to make it easier for business, see for example mastodon post from EC a few hours ago:
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114280068967975617Reducing things the way it should be done. Got it. Thank you
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Do it, the USA lost their industrial base to the shareholders and services is all they have. Let it rip!
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FUCKING DO IT
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