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breve
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- breveVLC also works on Apple TV: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-appletv.html
- > my Nvidia Shield devices won't play AV1
Put VLC on them. See if it works for your AV1 videos.
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- Why go to the expense of a tanning bed when you can get skin cancer for free.
- > some EU telecom VP who was on the engineering side that said "id buy from North Korea if the price was right".
Then he has no principle and cannot be trusted.
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- A necessary step to reduce risk to infrastructure given that the US government has become erratic and has decided it is now anti-Europe.
The US means to undermine the EU: https://www.dw.com/en/will-trump-pull-italy-austria-poland-h...
The US means to annex European territory: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo
It's the same reason you don't want Chinese equipment in your telecommunications infrastructure. You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it.
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- Here it is: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-N...
Discussion:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/breaking-down-trumps-2025...
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/12/trumps-new-national-sec...
The points on Europe are:
> Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:
> • Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia;
> • Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power;
> • Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations;
> • Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;
> • Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges;
> • Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and
> • Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices
This is aligned with what Russia wants. Russia has cultivated Trump as an ally and it appears to be working.
The US is explicit in its intention to meddle with and undermine Europe by "cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" and celebrates "the growing influence of patriotic European parties" (i.e. authoritarian, right-wing parties like AfD).
The US is explicitly attempting to annex European territory. Trump says the US will take Greenland "one way or the other". The US has been caught running an influence campaign in Greenland trying to promote its secession from Denmark: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo
Given American's new direction, de-Americanising your infrastructure and supply chains makes sense. It's sensible risk reduction.
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