How are phones different to game consoles, smart TVs, set-top boxes and other hardware that have stores where you can download things and where everything you can download and run is controlled by the manufacturer?

They could instead force Google to change chrome. Bring back the removed APIs. Remove any and all tracking going to Google from the Chrome browser and any other anti-privacy stuff. Heck, why not tell Google that they must transfer control of the core Chromium codebase to an independent entity but that they get to continue to distribute Chrome on top of it.

Just figure out what you need to hand the extention in terms of data to make it think its running on VS Code and not a fork and make your fork send that...

Does Bluesky have any offices, staff, servers, infrastructure or anything else in Turkey? Do they earn any revenue in Turkey? If they have no business presence and no legal presence and earn no money in Turkey, how can they be subject to Turkish law?

It should cost extra to have the plate made, sure. But it shouldn't (as some jurisdictions I know of here in Australia do) have an additional annual fee for the personalized plate.

No-one is forcing you to send your drives to this program.

There is always HexOS, I know nothing about it other than that its a wrapper on top of TrueNAS designed to make it easier to use and that it doesn't pull any of the consumer-unfriendly crap this article talks about.

If some computer out there is hosting and distributing copyrighted material, the copyright holders should be going after those computers to get them taken down instead of this site blocking BS. I would have thought it would be much easier to get content taken down at the source than having multiple countries block it through these site blocking mechanisms.

Business recommends switching from something that you pay for once and keep forever to something you have to subscribe to with ongoing monetization.

Even including both candy bar purchases AND a somewhat-nice meal while I am out, the amount I have spent on going to the movies in the last few years or so is nowhere near the cost of a TV and surround sound system good enough for me to not want to go to the movies anymore.

To be fair though, the cinema I go to doesn't have the problems oft-cited here on Slashdot. The ticket prices and candy bar costs aren't obscene, the seats are comfortable and I have never once been in a session where other patrons have ruined my experience.

If you get busted driving dangerously or excessively fast, the cops can impound your car (either for a period of time or permanently) which is a much bigger disincentive to driving that way than just loss of license.

There is no such thing as an executive order in the UK (where this is happening) and the consumer laws in that country do apply to Ticketmaster when they sell tickets for events that are located in that country.

Do the people of Hungary actually support the government (on this issue or in general) or is Hungary one of those countries that holds pretend elections to mask the fact that it's actually a dictatorship?

If the only alternatives you have are legacy Satellite internet companies then Starlink is better.

Reading what's out there is clear they are referring to the kind of portable external battery banks people use to have extra battery capacity for their devices.