I mean, I do get it. Some people take on debt as a way to live beyond their means when they could still live a “comfortable” life without the glamour or “keeping up with the Jones”. The $80k+ gas guzzling truck bought on credit - that’s only used for driving to work and grocery trips - is a good example of this.

But a better way of saying this is “live within your means”, but it’s becoming increasingly impossible to do this and have a standard of living that’s just “decent shelter and healthy food” (or even, “enough food”) which should be a bare minimum

Needs more bagpipe!

Personally, I kinda like companies that have an “open source contract” with a fixed date (although such could use better enforcement).

Have a period of time when the product source is closed, and get money for it. After a certain amount of money or time, release the source to the product. Then move on to something new, rinse, and repeat.

In other words

If a mob boss murders a drug dealer in order to help expand their “territory”: they’re still both evil criminals and the mob boss should still be charged

Big tech in general. At this point the only one I still have faith in not too fuck over customers “because they can” is Valve.

Agreed. Multi-pairing is such an underrated feature. It’s especially great when it comes with a hardware selector (in case you’ve got multiple devices paired in range).

I picked up a Logitech mouse that pairs up to 3 devices and has a button+LED’s on the bottom to switch between. It’s awesome

If they’ve already got a 4B there’s no reason not to use it for one of the many low-power low-profile uses, especially when the cost of PC components is going nuts now

Google based Android off Linux. Apple based IOS off BSD. Both of those were the result of collaborative work between thousands of millions of contributors.

Frameworks exist that assist in making apps for either or both, just like they exist to build games for multiple consoles etc.

Meanwhile, Google has now declared that they will require developers register signing key WITH THEM in order to make software that will run on Android (regardless of whether it’s installed via their store or another) and has been taking steps away from providing the the necessary codebase under AOSP etc that allow for third-party projects that were based on Android

Google has also transitioned readily to “rent” based services such as YouTube while killing off Google Play Music etc (such actually allowed purchases/downloads of media). Both companies are already heavily investing in generative AI.

Do you think that once they have control of all app signing they’ll allow apps that circumvent their advertising or data-harvesting?

This doesn’t “make sense”, it makes us pay more to a digital landlord who throws around their weight to lock us in further and further while using their increasing wealth to buy up or crush all the competition. We’re accepting chains of convenience today in trade for restrictions and exploitation tomorrow.

I can think of one company that holds a dominating market position and has been somewhat benevolent, and that’s Valve. They don’t buy out competition, they’ve been active contributors to open-source (to the extent that they’ve made gaming on Linux actually viable and good), and they often seem listen to their customers in order to improve. They still do take a goodly % of sales revenue from developers who list with them though.

The underfunding or undercutting of education is a big part of why we’re in the current situation

Not only that they have the money, but Google is actively working to lock down their streaming platform (YouTube) against third-parties and they have basically yanked the rug for their OS platform, while adding requirements for developers to sideload.

Their entire direction is antagonistic and in opposition to the core concepts of FOSS

Deacon: “Brother Ted, you’ve messed it up again. I clearly said I wanted a demon with giant muscles!”

Brother Ted: “But that’s what I did. You can clearly see the mussels all around the border!”

Wait, am I a lesbian?

I had to double check. It’s based on Linux and Open Source Software, but the UI is proprietary.

I would love to see a SailfishOS phone like Jolla’s gain more widespread market/sales

I built a small set of scripts to decrypt when the initrd starts and can load from a file in the initrd (from separate volume), EFI, or various combinations of passphrase in GRUB. The main intent isn’t to keep out somebody with physical access to the machine and sufficient time but rather makes it a lot easier to make the data unrecoverable when the drive is disposed of.

A lot of people will probably just continue using Windows 10, but yeah now I’m wondering what the best models are that don’t quiiiite support 11. I’d love to snag an decent tablet-PC

That’s actually pretty clever

Garage tech startups where the garage belongs to your already upper-income-class parents

Somebody should redo this but with Hanks’ actual arm and then a skinny geek-arm :-)

One of the things it asks permission for when hooking up Bluetooth etc is “call history”, “contacts” or “text messages”

I’d assume the system needs those to read it messages or call/redial. It wouldn’t need OCR to do other things with that data