Epic is a piece of shit company. The only reason they are fighting this fight with Apple is because they want some of Apple’s platform fees for themselves. Period.

The fact that they managed to convince a bunch of simpletons that they are somehow Robin Hood coming to free them from the tyrant (who was actually protecting all those users all along) is laughable. Apple created the platform, Apple managed it, curated it, and controlled it. That gives them the right to profit from it. You might dislike that but — guess what? Nobody forced you to buy it. Buy Android if Fortnight is so important to you. Seriously. Please. We won’t miss you.

Epic thinks they have a right to profit from Apple’s platform and not pay them for all the work they did to get it to be over 1 billion users. That is simply wrong. They should build their own platform and their own App Store and convince 1 billion people to use it. The reason they aren’t doing that is because they know they will never be as successful as Apple has been.

Great. So, even if manufacturing does return to the USA – the jobs will not. As everyone predicted. What is the difference if robots have all the manufacturing jobs on US soil instead of foreigners in China? Correct. There is none. Except the company has avoided paying the tariff — whose only purpose was to “bring the jobs back”.

Quite simply we must boycott any company using robotics. The Trump tariffs are an insane policy, lowering America’s standing in the world, destroying the world economy (and there will be unexpected blow back for that too) and they should be immediately reversed.

Another grave tragedy ignored by the right-wing media in the US (ie: all of the media). THESE ARE GOOD PEOPLE, DOING GOOD WORK FOR LITTLE-TO-NO MONEY, IN THE WORLD’S POOREST AND DIFFICULT REGIONS AND AMERICA - ONCE AGAIN - HAS LEFT THEM HIGH AND DRY. Does anyone believe any of these programs are coming back “after 90 days”? These people need to eat - today - they can’t wait around hoping that the USA comes to its senses. America has — once again — proven that it is a friend to no one, and, by all rights, should have no friends. Any country trying to appease these monsters will find themselves annexed or worse.

I’m just gonna go ahead and refer to it as the “Gulf of Canada” — the way Trump is leading America, Canada will extend all the way down there soon enough.

And Google can go fck itself for capitulating even before being asked. Fck that company.

Organic Maps is very good. One killer feature is that it can run completely offline, doesn’t track you, and is considerably more battery friendly than Google Maps.

And if you’re on an Apple device, Apple Maps is actually quite good now and probably has the lowest battery drain of any map app (on Apple hardware).

In what way? I find it exactly the same as Signal but without needing to disclose my phone number (and therefore more anonymous). The user experience, imho, is the same.

Session is very good and doesn’t require a phone number (like Signal).