I second this Mistral is great. I made the switch, not going back.

Qobuz,

They are French,

You have all Deezer and Spotify perks,

They pay artists,

Music is often in High Resolution, they have partnerships with Hi-Fi audio brands,

You can reach them if your favorite artist or album is missing.

I also with two of you. I also think, personally, that us, humans, are really bad at taking decisions.

We are not seeing the long term vision of things or the whole. Someone having a lot of resources will not be eager to share those with its less fortunate neighbor. In the US, doing so would be called socialism. On the long term it would be the most profitable option for everyone though.

Governments in democracies should totally have those steering bodies composed of people having a long term vision of things. Maybe engineers, scientists, lawyers… But also with objectiveness about matters presented to them.

That vision cans be projected in dictatorships but you are right. The whole thing will crumble when the person at the top will die. Be it a king, president or anyone else at a position of power being nearly venerated.

I would support a mix of both personally. A government represented by its institutions and not people. Taking information from the population itself and processing happening at the top. Information is a weapon by itself too, many insider groups would try to steer the whole or a part of it for themselves and profit from it.

The human component is a variable component here. It seems there is no outcome to that equation as long humans aren’t aware how people are different around them and accept those differences. Plus being able to share when one as a lot and another nothing.

I wonder if EU has some specifications regarding odometers.

It can’t believe we don’t have a standard on how that it needs to work.

If your state requires ID verification, then most apps will probably comply. You can try Matrix with Element or just Signal with a group.

More more “off-the-line” alternatives you can look at Mumble and own your own server.

Fairphone brand is basically saying to everyone “Hey look at our generic Android phone with everything you need from Google, including AI stuff and data collection” and when you ask if you can have a privacy friendly features they basically say “Nope, we just do a phone with replaceable parts, that’s all. Don’t ask for more”

Ah yes, the good old way of throwing electromagnetic waves at people after putting their cymatic scans inside a shared pool of neutrally and selected pool of dissected sociopaths brains.

I didn’t have it on my Bingo card.

Psycho Pass.

Another one to the list. Great anime. It’s like if Blade Runner and Minority Report had a loving relationship and a beautiful child was the byproduct of this union.