When it comes to China, let me only say one thing: China needs Europe more than Europe needs China," Nagel, who sits on the ECB’s Governing Council, said.

I’m sorry, what? How is this guy so delusional?

Every time we try getting aggressive with China, they just cut exports or raise the prices and we immediately cave in. Because they don’t need us and we need them. For us, China is the sole source of many goods, while for them Europe is just extra money.

Generally, the EU should be more aggressive. However, perhaps not towards a superpower it has no leverage whatsoever with. All this does is hurt both China and us, except it hurts us way more. Stop this brain dead strategy of suicide.

This is precisely why the EU is so weak at the moment. I’m all for a stronger Europe; one that could be a global superpower and dictate its own rules where appropriate and/or necessary. But this is absolutely not how we get there.

“To make the proof”…? You’re supposed to be finding proof, not making it. Ideally before making a big announcement.

Now this is character development. Happy for him.

I don’t have an issue with having an issue with all existing countries

Fair. I was just unsure whether you really did mean all countries.

Some places are better, some are worse.

And some places are better for some people, while being worse for other people. Not necessarily always, but sometimes it’s a matter of preferences. One person may choose to live in a country with fewer liberties due to preferable climate. For them that would be a good choice, but for you it may not be.

But the argument indicates that we should treat an unknown as better than a known, and that the red flags are just flags.

Personally I didn’t get that impression.

You’d be surprised how many of these “bad things in China” are US propaganda. I guess those millions spent on misinformation are paying off.

So, are things bad there or good there?

Real life is never so simple as to be either good or bad. Are things good in the country you live in? Are they bad? Can you really pick one or the other, when it highly depends on personal views and priorities? For you it may be good, and for others it may be bad. Especially considering we know so little about countries like DPRK.

I think the main point here is that, whatever it’s currently like inside DPRK, it’s being actively made worse by outside entities, notably the American Empire. And the information we have available is extremely unreliable.

Like, I dunno, man. Any country that does military parades is immediately kind of a red flag for me.

So basically all countries on the planet?

I’m by no means a veteran programmer, but I do study computer science and write automation scripts at work.

We get questions like this one every now and then, and usually the answers coming from experienced developers are: “You’re looking for an engaging project idea.” Not sure if this fits your case, but it seems like it to me.

Basically, pick your interest and then look for something related to it that you could write code for. You like video games? Try making games, cheats for games, mods or some other companion apps. If you’re struggling to find a suitable interest, you can always try writing scripts to automate your everyday computer tasks.

So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do?

The answer to this question will vary a lot, depending on the specifics of the person’s job or interests. Though there is often a lot of copying and pasting involved.

Even the first one is highly debatable.

He knows for a fact, since he checked it himself.

As a Newsom hater, I have to admit this is a big win for everyone. While he’s still very far from an actual solution to the country’s root problems - you can vote for him (if that’s an option), and then continue protesting and pushing for more reforms. I’m not quite as optimistic to believe this will happen, let alone succeed, but it’s an idea.

You don’t need an ID to download apps on your phone in China. The process is virtually identical to how we do it in the West.

Same country that just gave Nintendo a patent for a generic game idea thay has been in wide use for years. Yeah… this is strictly about profits from their anime industry. Japan is just as much of a capitalist dystopia as the US is. Though if they manage to hurt the AI ‘industry’ - nice, I guess?

How about exceptions for rich people who can easily afford it at no noticeable impact to their livelihoods?

I disagree. It depends how you define ‘malicious’, but in any case I strongly condemn this practice.

CDPR is perfectly happy to pretend they’re consumer-friendly whenever it requires no actual work and brings profits. But the moment they have to spend a cent on changes to actually fulfill their users’ wishes (which they themselves published a wish list for, mind you) - it gets absolutely shit on and the users are told to stop bothering them.

This is nothing but a clear display of what kind of company this is. People keep praising them for doing so much for the users. Meanwhile Valve has been losing money for years, just to help a handful of Linux gamers. No corporation is your friend, but if you really want to go with the ‘least evil’ option - just buy the game on Steam and then pirate it for indefinite storage.

This is just wonderful news.

I’ve never used Zorin. It doesn’t seem to match my preferences and needs. Regardless, anyone switching from Windows [and Mac] to any Linux distro is fantastic for all of us, including remaining Windows users (probably not Mac users though).

Let’s hope more keep switching, leading to a surge in Linux, and open source in general, funding. More people becoming interested in Linux development, potentially turning into more and more open source devs. I think we can be quite optimistic about this.

That’s why it’s only ~70k downloads. Probably many more for Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Manjaro, Bazzite and so on.

I don’t think you realize what kinds of people are in the US military. Be careful what you wish for.

There will likely never be an official GOG Galaxy client for Linux, judging by the company’s utter disregard for Linux users. It was the most requested position on their community wish list, and they just removed it saying they have no plans on adding Linux support.