I have a feeling they'd lock them down and prevent alternate os installs.

Yea, I don't know why there's a debate on this. Companies in the west try to gain favor by being loss leaders while making others dependent on their tech. Then slowly turn the evil dial. Chinese companies don't seem to give a fuck if you find a root kit in their first release.

I just hope CCP sees what their open source AI models are doing for their goodwill and try to push their companies in that direction with other stuff. It won't last but we'll at least have some competition.

They probably won't but one can dream.

The way to make money is lose money.

The easiest way to make money is to gamble someone else's money… while getting kickbacks from the companies you're "investing" on.

FTFY

He could afford to make you or I his sexual plaything if he really wanted to.

That's weirdly specific thing to cross your mind. But you do you.

Please don't make us laugh.

If there are consequences, if any, it will be some low level chums who don't have any political reach and/or have different colored skin, hired for exactly that purpose.

Would be happy to be proved wrong though. But I ain't holding my breathe.

What happened to abolishing ICE?

Same thing that always happens.

Politicians make big claims to get elected, then lobbying takes over what actually gets done.

I don't think so.

A lot of these websites only popped up to ride the hype/hate train to get clicks. Almost all are AI slop farms rehashing content for specific audience.

"Call it 'Trump Peace Care' and you have a deal"

-Twat in Chief

Go on right ahead.

Do you think the USA, who couldn't help themselves hit civilians and children's school for decades haven't had enough range to hit more schools yet?

Currently you have to load a proprietary google blob to use swipe, but they're working on a swipe library funded by NLnet, that should release very soon.

https://nlnet.nl/project/GestureTyping/

https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard/issues/2226

they won’t sell it or lets 3rd parties come even remotely close to it

If they secretly let the government double dip, I don't think I want to trust any other claims they and their marketing makes.

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data - Ars Technica

What are the odds that Google also claims it doesn't sell your data, it "shares" it.

But would you trust them?

Obama's tweet to "work together" something like that recently.

If we prosecute them, I'm next.

That's one of the reasons nothing will happen.