Those who are forced to by their employer at work, for work.

That was my point. AI data centers are even worse than that.

They are much worse indeed. Much stronger pollution, noise and almost zero jobs for the local population (big box stores at least offer some poorly paid jobs and pay some local tax). Tells you pretty much when even big jox stores are that much better.

I am not disagreeing with that, just wanted to state the facts, why the UK is in the focus.

Because the UK has already an invasive strict age verification system in place. Where in the EU is that slready the case as well? Certainly noz on EU level or in Austria. Their are ambitions in that direction however.

I doub it that mine does. I am running GPT-OSS-120B and Gemma4 31B on a local llama.cpp server on my PC.

Just imagine, back in the days, mines and factories brought noise and pollution, toxic air etc… but also plenty of (poorly paid) jobs that could nonetheless sustain a whole community. Data centres, the way the Tech fascists are designing them, bring the same noise, pollution, toxic air etc … while providing pretty much no jobs to the community and are probably also built with max tax evasion.

So there is nothing to gain from the communities, just downsides, no upsides. What a surprise that the only way to secure those plans is via corruption.

Jolla was effectively out of the phone hardware market for almost a decade. Things have changed dramatically sonce then. Small batch phone maufacturing has become a log more feasible. We will see if it is enough to survive but their SailfishOS has a very much alive community.