Someone posted this the other day: https://goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/

I really liked the idea so I quickly made my personal site and put it on the indie webring. It’s a tiny community but it’s there.

Don’t forget to put your website on a webring! https://🕸💍.ws/

As I said, I’m using Graphene OS. I think you’re confused about it the same way you’re confused about what EFF is and who is fighting Apple and why.

Electronic Frontier Foundation doesn’t agree with you: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/apples-apptrackingtransparency-upending-mobile-phone-tracking

“Looking ahead, the mobile operating system market is essentially a duopoly, and Google controls the larger part of the -opoly. While Apple pushes through new privacy measures like ATT, Google has left its own Ad ID alone. Of the two, Apple is undoubtedly doing more to rein in the privacy abuses of advertising technology. Nearly every criticism that can be made about the state of privacy on iOS goes double for Android. Your move, Google.”

I trust EFF more then I trust you, sorry.

I think iOS is better than stock Android because Apple is not in ad business so it has better privacy protections. Its locked ecosystem sucks but privacy wise it’s better.

I went with GrapheneOS because it’s fairly large user base means that it will last longer than other, less used mods. But in the end it will only survive for as long as Google let’s it.

In my experience rPi was terrible as a local server. The micro SD cards would fail regularly and I just got tired of handling backups and restoring them. I switched to a set up box type tiny PC and it’s stable as rock in comparison. Old laptop would be even better for that, shame I didn’t think about it.

That was 40 years ago. Any more recent examples?

Of course they are. They always did. The entire ecosystem is so closely tied to google services that it’s almost impossible to use the phone without them (if you want to use banking and security apps). For now the only alternative is iOS and I’m starting to doubt if mobile Linux will ever become usable.

Yes, they incentivize another 0.001%. How is google going to survive this?

Even better, let’s make being happy mandatory.

I don’t see it. “Tech bros” are a subset of people in tech. I don’t feel lumped with them. It’s like saying “reckless drives” is offensive because it lumps normal drivers with assholes.
If anything it’s offensive to women. Elizabeth Holmes was a typical “tech bro”. Not only men are assholes in tech. It’s a discriminatory term.

Why?

Too big to fail!

My gnome-terminal had some issues with nerd fonts so I started term jumping again. Went back to alacritty but quickly remembered that it doesn’t have tabs and even quicker apt removed this piece of trash. I didn’t even try kitty again after remembering how stupid it is to use it with ssh. Tried wezterm, everything worked like a charm, still using it. If it gives me any trouble I will try Ghostty, looks nice.

I connected android phone to external monitor using USB-C like a year ago. I’m not sure what’s new here.

I’m talking about an ecosystem and you listed one mod. I use graphene OS, it’s great overall but I would like to have a choice. Maybe I don’t want to use a Pixel phone? Maybe I want different set of features?

Nothing really useful. What I would like to see is better battery life and truly Open Source Android which can be easily degoogled and customized and works on many different devices. An entire ecosystem of Android mods, like me have for Linux. Yeah, that would be nice.

I think this is the first time I found a reasonable take on “how to fix the internet”. You can’t fix the corpo web. Most people just want constant updates and they don’t care about ads, bots and AI slop. You can’t change their minds.

Saying “fuck it, I will just build my own thing and I don’t care if anyone will see it” is the right approach. Couple of times I was thinking about creating some guides (like guide to public EV chargers in Spain) and I just gave up because I realized I’m not going to win the SEO war and no one is going to view it. Why write guides if they are not helping anyone? I’m still not sure if it makes sense to create guides but it may be a good idea to create a simple site, post some photos, share a story. I will probably do it.

30 years ago creating content was hard but also destroying it was difficult. Now it’s very easy to post shit online but internet is also full of bots, scrapers, malware, scam and spam. I don’t think you can separate those two. We can keep the internet private and free but full of shit or make it safe and “fun” but difficult to access.

So offended! It’s GNU/Linux.