Yeah... Whoever agrees to meet with Kim Jong Un clearly is a despicable world leader.

So basically it's UserLAnd with accelerated graphics instead of VNC.

Conclusion of this thread:

It took a mightly long time, but the company eventually coughed up the source code. They sent me a big ZIP with an large git repo full of uncommitted changes and a bunch of comments and temp files that really shouldn't leave the company 🙂 Clearly some engineer just zipped up the local repo on his hard disk without doing any cleanup.

So they complied with the GPL in the end. Just the bare minimum - i.e. providing the source code on request and nothing mode. I wish they put it up in their Github but they don't want to do that apparently. I'll clean up the embarrassing files and comments and put it up in mine.

I rock a Fairphone4 running CalyxOS. Apart from the hardware switches on the Purism phone, I don't quite see what I'm missing out on privacy-wise.

I gave $20 to the friendly wino who lives in the dumpster down my street. He's reported a income growth of 1000% for today.

Thanks! I'll do that if my last-ditch effort to knock some sense into them doesn't work.

It's time to stop thinking phones are anything but commodity hardware with variable degrees of shittiness. There are no such things as premium phones, just premium prices.

Wow... If even Best Buy figured out those repair programs are designed to appease the regulators who ask for the right to repair but never actually be used, it should tell you how unappealing they are.

There's a lot to love about the Reform - not least of which is the chunky form factor, which I like better than thin stuff too, and the replaceable cells. But... I need a trouble-free machine as my daily driver first and foremost, and I know the Reform will fight me right out of the box. I mean as a secondary machine explore and play with, it totally makes sense. But I don't need that. I have enough projects to play with that take all my free time.

I did not. There's not enough of a community behind it for support. Meaning I have a feeling this one will be mostly trouble.

Privacy isn't a cutesy. It's absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, just like not doing stupid shit when you're a teenager, you get to find out how important privacy is years later when the stupid shit you did years before comes back to haunt you and it's too late.

The problem of course is that Big Data has made it exceedingly difficult and painful to maintain your privacy. Because of course the last thing they want is for you to have any. It hurts their bottom line.

Because of the corporate surveillance collective, in 2024, if you truly want to maintain your privacy, your life becomes significantly crappier than if you didn't bother. But that doesn't mean privacy isn't as important today as it's ever been.

Ain't you glad you gave Reddit content for free and they're reselling if for millions?

During his first campaign, most people with common sense simply dismissed Trump. "Who in his right mind would vote for him?" they thought. Boy! were they in for a surprise.

Now this is his second campaign. Trump is still the same Trump as the first time but on steroid this time. He tried to stage a coup, and he's now sitting in a courtroom trying to defend his ass in a really shameful scandal.

And most people with common sense, again, dismiss Trump. Because really, this time around, who in his right mind - including the most staunch ultra-conservative bible thumping republican - would vote this guy in again?

Well, brace yourself because many, many people will inexplicably say "Watch me. Hold my beer..." on election day. It will truly boggle your mind that not only anyone voted for him at all, but in fact a sizeable portion of America has.

From TFA:

their advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death

Even if the exact cause is not known, I'm pretty sure they died of a bad case of WW2.

Three of the countries forced to be in a union for 69 years take measures to avoid being attacked by the country that forced them into that union after seeing it attack a 4th country that was also forced into that union. Gee, I wonder why they're hostile...

We have zero insight into the longevity of flash memory because it doesn't matter: whatever it is, it's a lot longer than the phone's planned obscolescence.

That's why you've never heard anybody complain about their saved data getting corrupted: their device has long since hit the landfill before that happens.

I don't know about that.

I've been hearing society is bad and getting worse from a variety of people since I was born in the height of the Cold War, and I've come to believe it's only a perception. It's no better or worse than it's ever been: it's just that as people get older and the standards of their youth change, they feel alienated by a world that is increasinbly not theirs anymore.

I'm old enough to be a grumpy old man but I keep reminding myself that this isn't my world anymore either. And if I'm honest, I don't see how the world of today is significantly worse than when I was a kid and we were all preparing for nuclear armageddon any minute now. And I always remind myself how my grandparents and my parents constantly told me to stop listening to "removed n*ger music" and quit wasting my time with those damn computer things and pursue more "manly" endeavors. I don't want to become bitter like they were because I have no real reason to: the world of today really hasn't done anything to me, it just feels weird.

However, I will say this: social media brings the worst out of people. It's like reality TV of the 80's and Usenet, but turbocharged. I think the utter social mediocrity that is social media contributes a lot to the perception that society is worse: it isn't, it's just that the worst of it is a lot more visible and more vocal.

If that was the only issue with Reddit...

I don't know what it is, but people there seem to be turning nastier and nastier. Like for instance, I posted some technical question on an electronics subreddit earlier, and something in my post - not sure what - landed me a -15 score, and people replying that if I didn't like it I could fuck off. All I said was that some component wasn't placed in a terribly convenient location in the new design, and the people who posted angry and rude comments weren't even the designers. I mean what the actual fuck...

It seems a lot of subreddits I used to enjoy participating in are now full of people in a really antagonistic mood, and I often hesitate to post anything there now because I know it has a 50% change of turning nasty. And so instead, whenever possible, I post in the equivalent Lemmy community because even though they have a hundred times fewer users, it's a much less frustrating experience.

I come interact on Reddit or Lemmy to have a good time, not to pick up a fight and get insulted by passive-aggressive internet lusers with frayed nerves.

I've long since started assuming I'm getting data-raped by tech companies until solidly proven otherwise. I am rarely proven otherwise, let alone solidly.

Also, don't fall into the cloud services trap - coyly called SaaS or PWA: those "apps" don't run on your machine. Your machine is just a fancy terminal. The trap is, even if your machine runs free software, it's still a terminal and you're still getting data-raped.

That's why cloud applications need to be fought every step of the way. As long as the application runs locally and it's not closed-source code made by greedy big data for-profits, there's a way to escape the corporate surveillance. If any one of those two premises is missing, your privacy will be invaded with 100% certainty.

You don't need Noscript anymore uBlock Origin handles everything Noscript handles and much more, and it affords more granular control.