European data on European servers is fine, as long as American agencies can’t just access data on those (which one cannot rule out with American companies).

The US takes tariffs on the good stuff? Looks like there will be more stuff for us in the future.

They have to give s shit, because they are ultimately responsible for the handling (and abuse, if it comes to that) of the data, and as European companies they are in easy reach of the European law.

Under Trump 2.0, some Europeans fear that storing their data in the bit barns of Microsoft, Google and AWS is no longer safe

It never was, and all the laws that were installed to make this appear legal were nothing but meaningless fig leaves.

Have you ever heard of sparse files, and how Linux and Windows deal with zips of it? You’ll love this.

Not mine. There are a lot of reasons not to use Windows, and this is just one of them.

A project I am supporting just dropped a mail on that subject. They will handle all non-US deliveries including Canada and Mexico through other countries. Originally, they wanted to handle everything from the US. Good for us, as we expect to have a relay in the EU so we don’t even have to deal with customs.

If they mistake those electronic parrots for conscious intelligencies, they probably won’t be the best judges for rating such things.

If your digital life exists in a phone, and you don’t have your own backups, who is at fault?

If you care for or rely on your data, don’t let companies be responsible for it.

Because of f-ed up autocorrect, that’s why.

They have a bunch of display ports and HDMIs. You can buy the tuner you need (SAT, OTA, cable, other streamer), or use a PC&Linux and watch YT add-free.

Oh, they do have products without all that shit. They offer large screen monitors that are basically their TVs without the “smart” part.

My nightmare source was only a few lines less, and it actually was commented. But in French. Label names were also dereived from French. The original author was dead, and Google translate was not yet a thing.

That would even be better.

If they take a X% cut from the transaction, they should at least shoulder X% of the fine.

“common sense and decency” are considered cost-drivers in the capitalist manual and therefor to be avoided at nearly all cost.

There is still a load of difference between even the lowest tier Tönnies and an American abattoir.

Time for the EU to seriously fine them and block them until full compliance.

Obviously. I remember butchering a pig at a farm, and before the meat could be processed any further, the vet checked it for a number of issues, among them trichiosis.

You can actually buy those cookies in normal supermarkets.