Citizen

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Joined 7 months ago
Cake day: January 22nd, 2024
  • Citizen@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•what foss phone OS do you use and why?
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    2 months ago

    Not need to force anyone to use anything mate!

    Here is my personal example: I made my choices a long time ago...

    I ditched ANY:

    • M$ related product/service;
    • ALL Meta (as in Wazaaap);
    • closed source apps;
    • i have 0 IoTs around my ass, but a nice computer infrastructure built in more than a few decades;
    • no friends around with i Phones ...

    AND still I need to do so much about privacy and my life in general and I continue to learn & apply as much as I can...

    Also, I kindly invited and explained others why I choose to ditch products/software/companies/people that do not respect Humans in general and consider all of as as being just dumb "assets"...

    Indeed it feels lonely sometimes, but i prefer the silence rather than noise/propaganda/parotting/or really any kind of bullshit.

    Peace!

  • Citizen@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•what foss phone OS do you use and why?
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    2 months ago

    I'm using /e/ os for more than 3 years on different devices (with some customizations) and it works like a charm. An important aspect is that you can install e on any phone that has the bootloader unlock and supports GSIs - theoreticaly any device that runs Android > 9

    /e/ has a gsi image which is neat!

    I don't use nor promote any banking apps or other G**gle/proprietary dependendent apps.

    Why nobody talks more about e.foundation /e/ OS?

    Enlighten me please 🙂

  • Citizen@lemmy.mltoSocialism@lemmy.ml•On Work
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    3 months ago

    I remember like it was yesterday:

    • You could NOT travel anywhere except on very exceptional conditions and only in the communist countries of the communist block. Also being paid very poorly one could not really afford any travel!

    • You would not own anything and that did not make no one happy! The land, the house nothing was yours all was owned by the state.

    • You could not aford to pay for a car and you could theoretically buy a car in almost a lifetime using a social credit system which was bad and poorly implemented;

    • grocery stores were empty;

    • food was bad and very scarce;

    • We were getting in a line, in a row, the nights before when we had a rumor that the delivery trucks will come the next day. All the food was sold, based on a food ticket from the truck and the food products were never reaching the shelves in the grocery shop;

    • One family was only allowed to have only 1 bottle of of cooking oil and 1 pack of butter per MONTH, taken that ticket IF these would be available at the grocery store and if you got the ticket!

    • The quality of any product was very bad, but you would not notice because there was nothing to compare to;

    • The people had work, but most were just doing really just the minimum to get the payment which was not much and the quality of work was very poor in almost all industries. Also understand the timeline. In 1980's the kind of jobs that people worked today may not exist at all because of technology! So if you would have communism today, most people would have very limited types of work! (You will see soon... Say Hello to Artificial Inteligence!)

    • Most people were very corrupted, because they need to EAT so a lot of underground market was taken place for those who dared because:

    • IF you SAY or did ANYTHING which was not inline with the communist party you would be incarcerated and beaten to death...

    I will stop here as there are so many other important aspects...

    Lived in Romania for almost 50 years and I know how communism is so NO, THANK YOU!

    **Also understand that even if you would have communism today it would not be the same type of communism as the TECHNOLOGY CHANGES EVERYTHING! **

    I invite you to learn more about China's social credit system and WeChat app! Also look into T. digital id... it is at least "interesting": https://piped.video/watch?v=PxvNzzgoJX8&t=7

    Hope you will find my insights helpful and keep this comment!

    Be well!

  • Citizen@lemmy.mltoSocialism@lemmy.ml•On Work
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    3 months ago

    I agree and to the point, but living in a communist country for more than 15 years I can tell you that the answer is not socialism/communism for sure!

    When all the stuff is all "ours" the fact is nothing is yours while everything that supposedly is collective/ours is really degraded and not yours.

    In the same time, the few have everything and no rules apply to them.

    Read about Nicolae Ceausescu!