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Kevin Karhan :verified:

I think the #LightPhone3 is better than a shitty "#ProducedEwaste" #Android 8.1 brick from China but I don't consider it worth the premium asked [U$D 799 MSRP, U$D 599 preorder] for it.

I think people can get a better experience buying a #degoogled #Fairphone with #eOS and just put #RelaunchX as an #eInk-optimized #launcher on it and have a better option.

  • But I guess given #ForProfitHealthcare in the #USA is expensive I can see why a lot of people would rather buy such a device and sell their old one than seek therapy if they are susceptible to shitty patterns that #developers harness to maximize #screentime and #revenue.

Can't have #doomscrolling or #microtransactions if it doesn't support #NSAbook's #apps or shitty #PayToLoose #games...

What I do have to say is that #MKBHD acknowledges that he isn't the target audience and "that's fine"...

  • I just think that requiring people to sign up to some account just to be able to add/remove #Apps is a major #nope in my book.

I stayed off #GooglePlay for longer than it's being called like that and their "#lightOS" is most likely some tightly locked-down Android...

  • It's just an insultingly high pricetag for < $200 internals and the best feature they have isn't even the phone but offering a "no frills" plan which seems okay (by #USA standards!) but still...

I think people would be more accepting if it was a $299 or even $399 device, but at a price of a @monocles #phone whilst being way less versatile it's just not worth it.

  • Cuz it's not even a super "secure" device or offers something like a "concierge service" where the device price is artifically high to filter out average #WageWorkers without much disposable income...
YouTubeI Have A Problem with the Light Phone IIIBy Marques Brownlee
#wageworkers
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Daniel AJ Sokolov

@knittingknots2 A key element of #Reagan 's political success was that he let everyone know that taxes have a sweet spot. When you increase the tax rate higher, #tax #revenue declines.

Of course Reagan did not use that knowledge to optimise for tax revenue, but that is a different story.

Today, we see someone avers to knowledge inflicting randomly extreme taxes on his own people. Fodder for so many PHDs, reason for so many bankruptcies. #tariffs

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CBC Prince Edward Island

Holland College suspends 8 programs, citing drop in revenue caused by foreign student caps
Holland College is phasing out eight programs for the coming school year because of a drop in revenue from 'a sharp decrease in the college’s international student enrolment.'
#education #revenue #student #News #Canada #PEI
cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edwa

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Klaus-Gerd Giesen

And then, suddenly, #ElonMusk realizes that #Trump 's tariffs may possibly be an end in themselves, to simply generate #budget #revenue for the #USA #state ,and not a means of pressuring other #countries into bilateral #negotiations for the complete mutual elimination of all #tariffs as well as a drastic reduction in non-tariff barriers, which is the #neoliberal #dream .He starts to understand that, as far as his own #business is concerned, he may have bet on the wrong #horse .

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

Except THIS is not how any of this works!....

#Trump literally lashing out against friends and neighbours will only backfire hard, and I expect @EUCommission and @europarl_en to enact #PrizeFreezes for #US #products & #services whilst forcing #Retaliatory #Tariffs on all US #products and espechally #services, demanding 100%+ in all #fees, and #revenue of #GAFAMs' services and products to the point that they'll effectively cancel half their revenue that flows back.

  • Plus forcing all products and services to be processed and sold via a #EU-based #corporation and adding a 30% "#AlienTax" as the #USA already does for i.e. #App #developers that ain't from the US even if they never sold a single license to a US customer.

Not to mention cancelling any #DataProtection agreements that only stalled the foreseeable court decision that #CloudAct is incompatible with #GDPR, thus banning #Office365 / #Microsoft365, #iCloud et. al. from the EU!

Given #Trump can't be assed to even fake any #loyality or #allied status even for the cameras, this is a #ForeseeableConsequence.

Unless we want to end up #downgraded into the state of a US-occupied overseas possession without statehood, like #Guam, #PuertoRico or #AVI...

YouTubeWhy Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)By Money & Macro
#USpol
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Nonilex

#Trump’s WH budget office has sought to understand the potential cost to maintain #Greenland if it were acquired…. They are also attempting to estimate what #revenue the #US #Treasury could gain from Greenland’s #NaturalResources.

…Trump has said repeatedly that the US will “get” Greenland.

“100%,” he told NBC News on Sat. Asked whether it would involve #force, he said that there is a “good possibility that we could do it without #military force” but that “I don’t take anything off the table.”

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WordofTheHour

#revenue : the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal

- French: revenu

- German: die Einnahme

- Italian: entrata

- Portuguese: renda

- Spanish: ingresos

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ckrypto if@signalapp@mastodon.world wasn't complying with #CloudAct, @Mer__edith would be in jail.

Not to mention even if Signal keeps their "#OpenSource" code updated - which is doubtful, NOONE can actually #verify that it's the code you actually use - regardless if #backend / #Server or #client / #App!

  • #Signal is as secure as #ANØM, otherwise it would've been shutdown ages ago.

Also if Signal was designed for #security, it would've been #decentralized as #XMPP+#OMEMO and not demand #PII like #PhoneNumbers which oftentimes cannot be obtained anonymously in many juristictions at all!

By comparison, @delta doesn't require any PII, only an #eMail account, and @monocles isn't a #VCmoneyBurningParty but sustainable due to #subscription and they don't even require any personal details for #payment: #CashByMail and #Monero are accepted.

Again: It's Signal alone who have to evidence they are trustworthy, and all I get are "#TrustMeBro!" replies, which means they are not to be trusted.

  • Not to mention, it's just not sustainable to run a #service without #revenue, even if it's run entirely by unpaid volunteers and gets all it's #hosting and #costs donated, someone has to pay for expenses due to #abuse of a service (which is an inevitability come mass adoption)...

Whereas with #XMPP I can completely setup my own server and client, even build my own if I don't trust anyone else and pay someone to audit the code.

Whereas with XMPP & PGP/MIME #eMail I can layer @torproject / #Tor over it, make it an #OnionService and keep that thing under my bed with a literal killswitch...

YouTubeSignal's Terrible MobileCoin BetrayalBy The Hated One
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