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2·3 days agoi like our chances of thriving in an alternative internet like in here, or building our own stuff that could be used for good. it’s is an immensely important resource some people take for granted and we should fight for it. however:
1 - the great majority of people accept it and the fringes are discarded as not profitable. the definitive wall where people draw the line goes further the more it’s normalized and the breaking point isn’t near. it’s already coming to your android phone.
2 - remember elected representatives don’t represent the people. they will go back at the slightest hint of disrupting business especially for banking and shopping. exemptions for the powerful aren’t out of the question on anything, plenty of that already.
3 - we are living through a global oil crisis that is starving people worldwide, many wars, genocide, nuclear tension and the rise of fascism. the splinternet is often talked about as being in the horizon. we are lucky to be in relative isolation so far.
things often seem inevitable because they are in bad shape. we are still scrambling over the ongoing fascism and we’ve been compounding the climate crisis without a care in the world.
i’m not saying it’s impossible or that we should quit. just that we need a realistic view of what we are up against, and who calls the shots right now.
if their go at web drm eventually ever comes to fruition, you can expect the fringe to be expelled from all but a few niche communities.
similar to what they are doing to private/custom android with the qr codes and play integrity and whatever else.
sounds like she needs to switch applications before switching oses.
switching to linux gets much much easier when you get used to the foss apps first.
acrobat might run fine on wine but there are other editors that are better in every way and not dependent on wine or adobe.
that’d be based
the article raises good albeit imperfect points with good examples.
we truly need more ux people and designers to contribute.
3·18 days agoi remember the last one, coming along nicely bro.
already looking like an internet tablet i’d use with the improved screen.
i still suggest desoldering ports for more space for batteries.
tbf i haven’t used discord in a long time, i’m ootl on that one. replace it with any other electron app if you will.
that took a L O N G time.
on that note, what’s stopping us from having “geckium embedded framework” instead so we stop relying on pedos for our
discordsand steams?
if we don’t manage to push our salaries up from this garbage, we failed.
get more ram asap if you can
63·29 days agothe leaders you keep electing and your oligarchs are doing damage to western democracy.
processors are not trivial to make.
if you are bothered you should be doing something about it.