And the first use case the marketing department presents in the video is to creepily film women in public without their consent. What a time to be alive.

To be fair to american police, it takes a special kind of courage to stay in a job where you have to deal with a bunch of dangerous murderers drinking coffee in your office every day.

Impossible!!

I can’t believe I hate them more than the Tories. That’s an achievement.

At some point we thought the FBI investigations into Trump would actually amount to something. At Comey must have done something right in the process, considering how much Trump hates him. The author of this comic appears to have attempted to date it to July 2018.

Back then there was some hope that federal agencies could actually save democracy. We have since learned that nope, they are indeed only good for suppressing the people, not for defending it.

I guess the joke is that red hair and wine was hopeful the FBI could do good, whereas striped shirt and beer knew there would be little help in fascist superstructures in saving us from fascism.

Not such a great comic I’d say—there’s something ironic about painting a strawman of the people you are criticizing for simplified thinking. But I guess they were at least right about the alphabet agencies.

Looking at the comments in this thread I’m mostly amazed at how many users have their number of comments in the several thousands. I see you have 1.2K comments on your instance, but only ­­­­­ ~300 of them federated over to PieFed.

I had Kbin and Mbin accounts before this one, so my total count of ~900 in this profile is not the complete picture, but it’s still fascinating to me how relatively inactive I am compared to the big time posters out there. I’m pretty sure I already spend way too much time on here.

I run /e/OS, so I don’t completely know about proper Linux as a daily driver on it. Last time I used Ubuntu Touch was before Waydroid (and not on a Fairphone), but back then I found that I was dependent on some Android apps that could not be replaced (WhatsApp & banking).

I guess at least it’s not so much work to switch between proper Linux and something like /e/ until you find that Linux is ready for a daily driver. If you’re ready to put some time into it at least. :)

Yeah, if the battery isn’t replaceable I’d consider that a bigger problem than the price.

I’m very happy with my Fairphone - I’ve been using it for a while now, and it seems they still take software freedom seriously even as their user base grows. They have a problem with understaffed customer support, but in my experience they are very helpful once they do respond.

In the early days of typesetting English imported Latin characters, and people found themselves lacking þ with no real replacement. So they decided to use the character Y instead - hence the tacky English pubs named stuff like “Ye olde tavern” or whatever. Then eventually I guess the English admitted defeat and settled for “th”, though as Wikipedia correctly states Icelandic is still sticking with þ.

…I guess this is somewhat off topic.

Move to a different area if your current area it’s not pleasurable to you. Find a higher quality group of friends or become someone that can enjoy their own company. I could keep listening, but I’m not going to make this thread too long.

I guess a lot of people people don’t have this opportunity because they need to work boring jobs in order to feed themselves. They should be plotting a revolution, but instead are exhausted by work and get pacified by brainless entertainment the few hours they are not either working or sleeping.

For whoever can afford freedom there’s plenty of things to do in the world, yet a bunch of them end up bored anyway. I agree that they could often escape their boredom if they were braver.

I guess independent options will always be more expensive than mass-produced trash by tech giants. As far as I understand the FLX1 was pre-made by someone else whereas this is an original device designed to their needs/preferences.

Whether it’s worth it is of course an individual calculation. For me the calculation boils down to presumed longevity, repairability, independence from tech giants (including not supporting them financially), and control over software. But of course, there is a trade off - you end up paying extra for something less concrete than processing power and megapixels.

I’m not interested in the Furi Phone as I have a FairPhone that I intend to use for a long time, but it looks interesting. It seems like a mission worth supporting especially considering how degoogled Android is under threat.

(edit: Also, it seems people are not too excited about your þorn project - fuck þat, I þink it rules)

I have tried to buy good laptops in the past (ThinkPads) and have been profoundly disappointed, part of the appeal of the Framework for me was that I could choose myself exactly what I wanted from my laptop. And I really couldn’t be happier with the hardware - build quality and everything is really great, and a completely different league from machines I have wasted money on in the past even though I tried my best to do my research.

It’s possible I should have tried System76 or Tuxedo, but I am really very happy with my Framework. Don’t think it makes sense to say it’s worse than the competition. But of course, a small company + repairability is reflected in the price.

Is anyone here actually using ReactOS?

I feel like Linux just makes more sense to pretty much everyone, but maybe there are users who depend on very specific Windows-only ecosystem for whom ReactOS makes sense. It’s just such a strange little OS.

For fucks sake. A big tent is nice and all, but I am not entering any tent that has fucking fascists in it.

Very happy with my Framework 13. I hope I can keep recommending it to people without feeling it’s at odds with my values.

It’s not like other producers are realistically better, but I kinda expect Framework to be good.

I write scientific articles with inline R code in Latex (using knitr), so I need syntax highlighting that jumps between two different languages within the document as well as spell checking and advanced (non AI) grammar tools for the text documents. Also I want something that looks kinda minimalistic and neat as a writing interface - there is more writing than coding involved.

I’m sure there’s some wizard somewhere who can do everything I need in Emacs, but I’m not terribly sophisticated. I just want something that works. Sadly, as much as I try to avoid anything Microsoft, VS Codium is the only thing I’ve found that fits my needs in a good way.

First mover problem. You can be both places, whenever you promote your content you can link to both places. That way if Instagram ever breaks for good you are not left with nothing.

MicroG makes most things work, so it’s not much compromise in my experience. :)

I use /e/OS which has access to apps from the Play Store, so that I still have my banking apps and stuff. I think streaming apps should work just fine.

…offline support?

I realize I’m not entirely free yet, but I sleep better ever since I changed to a non-Google Android ROM. Also because the path to proper mobile Linux feels shorter now.

Anyone still on Google Android: Look into making the change. It’s worth it.

And if not, at least start getting your apps from F-droid whenever possible.

I’m European and I only went to the US this year (first and last time), and it’s true I was weirded out by the amount of billboards. But still, the same billboard usually stays within your line of vision for a little while.

And if they really count it in such a crazy way by knowing what’s in everyones field of vision all the time, that’s a crazy approximation from their side.

I think it’s likely they instead measure how mamy ads come through the web to your device, which is different from how many you actually see. Like an ad at the bottom of a website you don’t scroll through and stuff like that.