Evil_Shrubbery

Are you mad, what if they reverse their polarity in the vicinity of 5G signals??

Didn’t know/remember about KitKat verified boot, but the sandboxing thing was prob just to kernel & perhaps some system files, def not user or hardware such as cameras. Including between apps & phone contacts, etc.

And I totally agree about lack of Linux phones (as hardware), the phone market with its size & megacorp subsidies to preinstall spybloatware is a giant hurdle.

And the real reason for closed sauce drivers (as a practice, not as if they should open-sauce old hardware now - that’s a security risk for unsuspecting folk & iot … but we could def transition the practice).

‘Vibe-healing.’

We await AI homeopathy healers.

Flatpak?
And some level of immutability?

It doesn’t seem like much of a step for Linux distros to cover the “gap” if/when we get any sort of viable mobile options for eg 1% of the market.

Yeah, I though of those two & it’s just a thing that would get/will get developed if we get to daily drive Linux phones, imho.

Its not like it didn’t take Android years to get those two aspects covered.

No use developing a monopoly (and having its future profits valued on the market) if you don’t plan to use it for hurting the consumers, society, & environment profits.

And anyone using Google related products is feeding the beast.
Now explain that to eg Chrome users.

I like this new deep lotr lore.

The Sauron eye (from the movies) with a clam foot sticking out of it?
And smaller eyes surrounding the eye?

The one ring featuring a pearl?

Orcs being born from giant clams?

Sorry, I don’t know enough about it to comment specifically this case, but in general I think that pay-to-search would be great (run by a corp or gov - both ways have their own future dev risks).

Search engines shouldn’t be financially motivated, they are too important - but if subscriptions are the only motivation (and search engine the only business!) that indeed mitigates a lot of the core concerns I have. I would pay for Google’s search engines (if packaged in an independent corp) from two decades ago.

You know, if it’s free, you are the product. It’s not like you don’t currently “pay” for using Googles shit, it’s just not in a way you immediately see.

Generally speaking, services you don’t run locally seem like a logical thing to have a price tag, you outsource the “work” (of the service) not just the dev.

Yes, ofc!!
Some foss projects have that model, eg FairEmail iirc (and yes, I “bought” it). Similarly others offer unessential perks for “the paid version”. (And others still offer support, sort of like a SLA.)

But “paid version” it’s a bit of legacy proprietary thinking, I’m happy if it works, but just have the mindset to donate anything to the projects you use/enjoy (even better, have a monthly donations set up, big dev projects really need that cf predictability).

What I will not do is willingly pay for property software (outside of games and similar stuff). Idk even what I bought last, but maybe like 2 or 3 proprietary programs in my whole life (W95, some Android app to code my car via obd, … I guess by cars had/have a bunch of closed sauce sw I technically paid for).

Yes, this is where my PC master gaming started.

This belongs on a sound card for some reason!! :D

These little overclockable bastards …

The time when the transition underneath already happened but it’s not formalised bcs the people could still snap it all back.

Megacorp be megacorping.

We should always fight giants like this.
And think to not feed them indirectly.

(Not to mention that such basic infrastructure should never be for-profit.)

that I can remember

Well that doesn’t sound sussy at all.

areas where sex toys are used

where toilet plungers tend to be applied

I’m implying those are the same areas.
I’ve never ever used a plunger on a toilet.

Some sex toys are dishwasher safe, it’s not a big deal.

(I’m talking about the shitpusher, not about the croc. No idea why you included a dirty toilet in the pic tho.)

(Well, this is the first time I’ve seen this sort of pic without the socks)