This device looks really interesting, but I don't see anything on their site about how I can write software for Light Phone, or install anything except what they provide through their app.
How is that any different from what Google plans to do to Android?
There's a similar bill working it's way through the Senate here in the US.
The Kid's Online Safety Act has the same problems as the one in the UK, and people here like the EFF have been sounding the alarm. I've written to my Congresscritter about it, but sadly, they're a bloody co-sponsor of the bill. Like the article said, they think the internet is made up of Facebook and Google, and they're ignoring the impact it will have on the small players, like Lemmy server operators.
In this case, I don't think just a VPN will help -- I think Tor might, as long as the small operators don't mind being borderline outlaws.
Yes, it's an accident - the power button is just a touch sensitive spot on the printer - but they do like to play witn paper, so this would invariably lead to more shenanigans.
the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.
Kinda ironic that you are discussing the nonsense of "how things should work" on a federated service where you control the intermediaries you work with and through, which is, IMO, the way things should work.
I tried KMail and Organizer for a few weeks, but they kept losing connection with Gmail. My calendar would get out of sync, and they only way to fix it was to reset the connection and redo all the appointments.
I'm sure it was user error, since I couldn't figure it out after spending a couple hours on it, so I just dropped back to webmail and not leaving the mail tab open all day.
I like Antenna Pod for this - my BT connections let me use the Forward 30 Seconds feature when m driving or running. Since most ads are 30 seconds long, I can cruise through them easily.
My first reaction would be to acknowledge them as a fellow geek, but that's because most of the people who live near me would hurt themselves trying to open Notepad. Anyone who knows enough to start hacking my config files would be a welcome guest in my house.
My EndeavourOS (and the prior Manjaro distro) had all of them installed.
All. Of. Them.
I am so tired of having to scroll through hundreds of Noto fonts to get to the later ones, but I'm afraid, if I uninstall one, something will break on reboot.
Kum & Go isn’t a charity, yet they found a way to go from zero charitable activity to nonzero. That’s a plus.
So you're saying the ends are what is important, not the reason the action was taken?
To me, there's an important philosophical question here -- if the right action (or a demonstrably good action) is taken, does it matter why? I think it does.
Let's say my neighbor doesn't maintain their property -- they don't mow or clean the landscaping. I decide to do this for them on my own, with their permission of course. There is a difference if I'm doing this to be a good neighbor, as opposed to making sure the neighborhood looks good because I'm selling my house. My actions are the same in both cases, as are the effects and side effects -- only the motivation differs. Therefore that motivation deserves to be interrogated and explored.
If you honestly see that as a negative, you should take it as a wake-up call that you’re using an irrationally pessimistic lens to view the world.
I don't see myself as a pessimist, but I'll admit this observation is probably correct.
It would have been too sarcastic for them to have touted it as a "legitimate" "new" "business".