It basically is when you’re not the one who has to deal with that debt.
It basically is when you’re not the one who has to deal with that debt.
If I had to pick, Ubuntu.
What I’d actually pick: Fedora
Workstation Edition (Gnome) or Plasma Edition (KDE Plasma), whatever your UX preference, with Gnome being more polished, minimalist, distraction-free, and Plasma being like Windows out of the box but much more powerful and customisable.
The name unfortunately conjures images of the tips fedora/m’lady meme, but the name predates that, and it’s a solid and well-supported distro that gets better with every update.
I don’t really dislike Ubuntu; they certainly get a lot right. But they have also made a few choices that I’m not really into. Most of all, the direction of Ubuntu is somewhat unpredictable, because Canonical is a for-profit business that has changing priorities.
We’ve come a long way. An analogue clock in particular seems crazy to me lol
It’d be interesting to see a timeline of different UIs on Linux, from the beginning to now
No, it isn’t. Not having children is.
And are we still doing the “personal climate footprint” propaganda that BP was pushing?
I’m going to preface this by saying the whole Americanised ACAB stuff is silly. Not everywhere has a shitty, militarised police force like theirs. Where I am, my experience with the police has been pretty positive, even with me being an immigrant with darker skin.
But man, no.
If police want your data, they can ask you politely, and if you say no, then that should be it. End of discussion. People have the right to privacy.
Maybe the officer wouldn’t do anything nefarious. But then again, maybe they will. You have no way of knowing what type of person that officer is. Even good police forces have plenty of shitty employees, so police powers should be limited to avoid them just doing whatever they want.
If there’s a genuine reason to have your data, say you’re implicated in some criminal investigation, then they can go through the proper channels and get a warrant.
Police absolutely should not have the power to just do whatever they like. If you let them, have that, it leads to shitty police forces like they have in the US and elsewhere.
Where did I say that?
You seem to be looking at this like a console fanboy. Me criticising Apple does not mean I’m a fan of Google.
Yes, Apple is bad. They are a tax-dodging multi-trillion-dollar company. They are not good. They are not your friend.
Android phones have this feature as well btw lol
A lot countries have this now.
Even for a number of countries where it’s not technically enshrined in law, police can still effectively do it anyway, by detaining you for as long as they like until you comply.
Indeed. Looking up how it works, this is how it should be done. I wish other browsers did this too.
This article is straight up misinformation in that it presents this as an erosion of user privacy. It isn’t.
That said, given how fickle people are online, Mozilla should’ve probably seen this coming and not enabled it on pre-existing Firefox installs.
I’m not. I know it is, as I’m sure everybody else is too.
But there are many ways to campaign for a better environment, and he has specifically chosen to go for the one that will help his catering company.
I don’t think that was a coincidence.
I’m not even saying that we shouldn’t be doing it. I’m just pointing out his lobbying for something that will benefit his business.
You’ve celebrated genocide from the start. Bye bye.
Yeah maybe. I’m certainly conflicted on this, because I don’t think he’s wrong, but him financially benefitting from this in a big way does leave a slight sour taste in my mouth.
Lobbying for the world to remain habitable is very different to lobbying so your catering company can make some money.
And of course he can express his view. As am I allowed to express my distaste in people lobbying for their own private companies’ benefit.
And I absolutely cared about lobbying before I saw this news.
I think buying an app for a couple of quid that has a good curated collection of wallpapers, a nice UX, etc. is a completely fair price to pay for the convenience. I like supporting devs. I fail to see the stupidity.
A $12 monthly subscription is an entirely different beast, though.
Just because something is normal practice doesn’t mean we can’t complain. I don’t like people lobbying for personal gain.
I do think we should be normalising eating less meat, but I can also complain about him lobbying to make a personal profit.
You are the one celebrating genocide. I’m not the one who needs their head sorted out.
Da comrade. Don’t worry. Soon the Ukrainians, Uighurs, and Palestinians will be exterminated
Honestly a big part of this is that the “dumb” phones are just as, if not more, expensive than a used or low end smartphone.
My daughter did use a dumb phone for a while, but then they started shutting down 2G and some 3G masts in the area and it was causing problems. There are some newer dumb phones that can use 4G, but given the prices and half of them still using micro usb for some damn reason (I’m a big fan of just carrying around one charger) it made more sense for me to give her an old smartphone and lock it down a little.
No, the discussion is about Chinese EVs. You’ve just went on a tangent of whataboutism because your dick gets hard at the thought of Uighur slave labour camps, Uighur sterilisation, Uighur killings, as well as Ukrainian children being raped and killed.
Because you’re a piece of shit tankie who should kill himself and rid the world of another turd who supports genocide. You love what China is doing, you love what Russia is doing, you love what the Nazis did, and you probably love what Israel is doing too.
Enjoy your subpar car made by slaves under the treat of having their family killed.
Honestly a number of these were abandoned for reasons that are fair enough.
Additionally, lots of these are open source and either have been or can be forked.