Same, I use an iPod for music, I try to pay with cash when possible and my main laptop is 15 years old. It’s idiotic that they want to move already existing offline things into cloud based subscription based ones, and how they slow down and stop updates for capable devices, and how they intentionally make things extremely hard to repair.
On the smart phone, it is an incredible tool humans have dreamed of for years (The collective information of humanity and the ability to communicate with people 1000s of kilometers away all in your pocket), yet the capitalists managed to make it as addictive as possible, to the point people would do horribly stupid things to please its algorithm and spend 7+ hours a day on it mindlessly scrolling without purpose.
Maybe it’s a power humans weren’t meant to have or its a ploy by the capitalists to distract and deceive the working class, but I digress.
Tragic, when you put it like that. There potential for smartphones isn't close to being reached and it's got very little to do with how much more advanced the tech gets. I've been asking around if people have old laptops, etc. I'm thinking of purpose building something that's as repairable as possible but it would be nice to try to get more life out of something that exists. What lightweight distros have you tried?
There potential for smartphones isn’t close to being reached
It’s funny, since I’m involved with legacy jailbreaking, and I really feel like planned obsolescence is the only thing stopping most people from using 10-year-old devices for everything they use them for now.
When I tried both KDE Neon and MX-Linux on my Dell E6400, I found that MX performed better, but KDE Neon wasn’t much behind on that regard. I ultimately decided on KDE Neon because I like vanilla KDE more than MX’s XFCE config.
Same, I use an iPod for music, I try to pay with cash when possible and my main laptop is 15 years old. It’s idiotic that they want to move already existing offline things into cloud based subscription based ones, and how they slow down and stop updates for capable devices, and how they intentionally make things extremely hard to repair.
On the smart phone, it is an incredible tool humans have dreamed of for years (The collective information of humanity and the ability to communicate with people 1000s of kilometers away all in your pocket), yet the capitalists managed to make it as addictive as possible, to the point people would do horribly stupid things to please its algorithm and spend 7+ hours a day on it mindlessly scrolling without purpose.
Maybe it’s a power humans weren’t meant to have or its a ploy by the capitalists to distract and deceive the working class, but I digress.
Tragic, when you put it like that. There potential for smartphones isn't close to being reached and it's got very little to do with how much more advanced the tech gets. I've been asking around if people have old laptops, etc. I'm thinking of purpose building something that's as repairable as possible but it would be nice to try to get more life out of something that exists. What lightweight distros have you tried?
It’s funny, since I’m involved with legacy jailbreaking, and I really feel like planned obsolescence is the only thing stopping most people from using 10-year-old devices for everything they use them for now.
When I tried both KDE Neon and MX-Linux on my Dell E6400, I found that MX performed better, but KDE Neon wasn’t much behind on that regard. I ultimately decided on KDE Neon because I like vanilla KDE more than MX’s XFCE config.