Is this meant to replace ChromeOS or will it actually be open-source for real?

Isn't this actually illegal?

It’s not “illegal broadcast which engages the FAA and FCC to hunt you down” illegal, but that doesn’t exclude other prosecutions.

Other persecutions for what? Sending crap data to an API is not a crime.

It's literally "computer fraud and abuse" in every sense of the word, so one assumes that an avenue of potential prosecution and possible conviction would be under the CFAA act. This does not, of course, guarantee that a conviction would be made and upheld at appeal, but this community is quite familiar with the dire harm that federal prosecution for misuse of computer services can impose on individuals, no matter how misguided that prosecution may be. Prosecution can be wielded as a form of persecution that does not require a conviction as outcome to be successful, and that is the a pressing risk now faced by whoever did this.

I'm keeping an eye on SteamOS. I love how it's much better at running games than Windows, the platform those games were designed for.

Plz make a Windows version :)))

Maybe?

I have friends working on IT in public administrations, starting to prepare for a switch from US tech to EU tech.

Well, a lot of countries are switching their supply chains to LATAM and Africa for this exact reason. I think the damage might have been already done

This country is turning into a meme

We have Trump blabbering about EU censorship, but here's the US oligarch's social network doing it at his orders.

The "bastion of free speech" is exporting its censorship to other countries... If I'm an EU lawmaker, I'd honestly use this to just ban Zuckerberg's entire social media sites and get it over with

I will never understand Europe's obsession with using WhatsApp. They've had a long time to switch off it for a better and less evil product.

It's not an obsession, it's network effects. I say this as someone whole mostly uses Telegram and Signal and has requested friends to text me on those apps instead of Whatsapp. But most people don't want to have several apps and to have to choose which is the correct one to contact each friend. So the status quo seems to be Whatsapp for people they only have the phone number, and Instagram for the rest.

The US literally exposed RT employees as FSB agents that carried out hacking operations... what do you think?

And that doesn't happen the other way around?

Does it operate 10k satellites? or is this just a launch tally and many of those have now been decommissioned