I don’t know if things have changed, since I haven’t used windows since Windows 7 and I’ve only sporadically touched macs, but the other day I dragged my clock from one side of my desktop to the other on Manjaro and a staff member looking over my shoulder freaked out like I was a warlock.

Sloth from the Goonies could outsmart the current administration, let’s be honest.

Whoops. Thanks for the catch.

That’s fair and all, and I see your point. A 100% “fair” phone is the end-goal.

Butin the battle against corporate douche-baggery, if we keep making perfect the enemy of good, we’ll never get anywhere.

/e/OS is not bad as an alternative. The system wide ad and tracker blocking is nice.

I switched to e/os on a couple of motorolas that supported it and it’s great so far.

The comparisons to GrapheneOS are fair to some degree, but also not. Graphene is meant to be privacy and security hardened, whereas e/OS, while it is more secure than regular android, is more concerned with privacy hardening. The biggest misconception people have seems to be thinking that privacy and security are the same thing; and while that is true on the surface level, security (a la GrapheneOS) goes much deeper.

So while my phone may not be as “hack resistant” as a GrapheneOS, it’s degoogled and very protective of tracking, which is what I’m primarily concerned with. So I’m happy.

I just wish I could afford a fairphone in Canada.

But that’s exactly the point. That would be what people who vote would look for in a local election. What’s this politicians stance on spending money on ageing infrastructure. (For example)

We’re not saying its “progressive” or “conservative” just that everything is political at the end of that day.

Indirectly, yes. How is the infrastructure of your town/city maintained. Is it falling apart or is it in good condition. Do the richer neighbourhoods coincidentally see more city workers updating their plumbing while you sometimes have to flush twice to get it all down because of unmaintained pipes, and are therefore paying a higher water bill as a result?

These are all political decisions.

Cowards living in denial.

we still voted, which means we needed to consider and learn and understand…

I feel like that particular voting strategy is long dead in the U.S. and Canada. Knowledge?! Who needs it?!

Breezy. Because AsteroidOS and Gadgetbridge.

For a very long time I’ve realised that my ebook reader didn’t replace hardcover books for me. It just replaced those paperback books that you only intend to read once on an airplane; basically the bailiwick of mass-market-paperbacks.

So, sad as it is, it makes sense that paperbacks are seeing a steep decline. They’re the most susceptible to ebooks.

Me fail english!? That’s unpossible!

Technically yes, but also no.

At least not casually; flying between star systems at will, faster than light between star systems, etc…

I’m sure at some point, if scientists confirm the habitibility of a world orbiting a star relatively nearby, some group or other would probably get a Generation Ship concept going and head out. Musk or some other fucking billionaire looking for a world to conquer. So technically that is interstellar travel, but not really as it’s just a one way point to point, not a taxi service.

The hole in the ozone layer…

Yep…you guessed it. Epstein.

The only issue with Unions is a corporate system that has spent decades on a campaign of misinformation and vilification.

Never forget that its unions that gave you a five day work week, 8 hour days, and child labour laws.

Nothing is given by a corporation out of the kindness of their heart. And nothing makes them more gleeful than listening to people repeat their anti-union screed.

I get that government use needs to be stringently tested for security, and so things take a little longer. But really, there are PLENTY of good FOSS products in existence that can be used as a base framework and a head-start to things like this.

You don’t have to re-invent the wheel when you could easily fork Jitsi-meet and harden it/secure it to your needs in the government.

Jitsi is one of my top 5 FOSS projects that are basically already mature enough to be used in a professional setting

*Davenport

Chesterfield actually. “Davenport” was a name brand of chesterfiled-style-sofa that became popular enough to become synonymous (Like Kleenex became synonymous with tissues, or Chapagne became synonymous with almost any bubbly wine)

What exactly does Apple think that they’re brining to the equation in order to deserve that 30? Is it simply that they’re hosting an app on their store, so therefore they’re entitled to a cut?

So if I write a novel, and get it published, Microsoft can say "We deserve 30% because you used our product to produce your product?

I’m so fucking tired of corporations. It’s well past guillotine-o-clock.

Haven’t brushed my teeth yet today. I’m gonna have to decline.

That was sassy? I thought it was hilarious.

I thought you had actually taken the time to look at my comment history, discovered that I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology and was making a riff on that. I thought it was great!