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Possibly stupid question: if they found out that people were doing illegal stuff on it, doesn’t that mean that they were monitoring people’s conferences? I thought that the FOSS community was big on privacy.

It might actually preclude some games from even getting a Switch port at all due to performance.

Dehydrated water: just add water.

Good, maybe in two or three more years Windows 11 will be useable. Right on time for Windows 12 to roll out and drag Microsoft users back to the Stone Age again.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Stats.FM is another good one. It shows you all sorts of statistics on what you listen to, which you can filter by time period and use to find new music.

To the first point, handing out tainted or expired food should be illegal, not any kind of food. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Someone please explain to me how giving food to another person is illegal. This is by far the most dystopian thing I’ve ever read, fiction included.

Terrorists and authoritarian governments are each others’ greatest allies even though both pretend otherwise. Each one uses the other to endear itself to the people and justify atrocities that they would otherwise never get away with, all in the name of protecting you from the other one.

Wouldn’t it be possible to create some kind of “post-browser” that takes input from the web browser and displays it after passing it through ad blockers and whatever else?

Aren’t we moving the goalposts here? You went from saying that people don’t do purely detrimental things to saying that they have reasons for doing purely detrimental things. I never said otherwise. Where do you think half that list came from? Personal experience.

People do purely detrimental things all the time because we are stupid hairless monkeys. Smoking cancer sticks is a prime example.

People don’t do things that are purely detrimental? How about…

Suicide, drunk driving, yelling at your boss, antagonizing people who might be armed, commiting crimes in places where you should know there are cameras, intentionally posting racist shit on social media where potential employers will see it, eating unidentified mushrooms, smoking crack, smoking meth, snorting cocaine, shooting heroin, speedballing, k-holing in a public place, shacking up in a public restroom, defecating in a public pool, fake attempting suicide just to get attention, autoerotic asfixiation, watching a Fast & Furious movie, having unprotected sex with strangers, getting a tattoo of your current boyfriend or girlfriend"s name, signing up for a variable-rate loan, mixing Viagra and MDMA, paying for extra lives in mobile games, eating fast food, putting things inside your butthole that you’ll need a doctor to pull out later, trying to pet a dog that’s growling at you, trying to wax your own ass, having “just one more drink” on a Sunday night, impulse shopping, and trying to get some of that earwax out with a Q-tip even though you know that’s just going to push it further in and cause it to block your hearing on that side completely until you can get someone to squirt water into your earhole and flush out the earwax stopper you just made?

Are you aware that not a single “nootropic” has ever been shown to make a difference in controlled studies? Forget just nicotine, even using the word “nootropic” is like saying “detox juice” or “chakra alignment”. It immediately lets everyone who hears you know that you’re the most gullible person in the room.

Are you aware that not a single “nootropic” has ever been shown to make a difference in controlled studies? Forget just nicotine, even using the word “nootropic” is like saying “detox juice” or “chakra alignment”. It immediately lets everyone who hears you know that you’re the most gullible person in the room.

Are you serious? Take it from a fellow smoker, there are zero health benefits (I’ve dug that hole as deep as it can go) and if you’re not addicted now, it’s only a matter of time before you are. If you can stoo whenever you want yo, you should, and if you don’t want to, guess what: that’s what being addicted means.

To be fair: nicotine is a mild stimulant, which could be a good thing. But caffeine is stronger, easier to regulate dosage, cheaper, less addictive, tastes a lot better, isn’t socially frowned upon, helps you to shit and doesn’t give you cancer. So smoking for the stimulant effect is a stupid thing to do.

Lemmy has undercover ads now?

I’d make a shortlist of phones based on price and hardware, then check the XDA forums to see which of the models on that list have good AOSP-based custom ROMs available. Generally, you’ll have better luck with flagship models, but there are custom ROMs available for many, many smartphones - some even get updates for longer than the official firmware.

Another option is to use adb to uninstall bloat and crapware from the official images, which can be done with varying success depending on the phone’s make and model. For example, I have a Samsung Galaxy A53 and was able to uninstall or disable most of the several useless or redundant apps it came with, but several I could not get rid of without breaking needed functionality (that shouldn’t depend on them, but does for some obscure and probably illegal reason).

Google’s policy with the Android OS is for it to be Good Enough ™ and let the hardware and apps (both of which are mostly bankrolled by other people) make them money. But seeing as the only alternative smartphone OS in the market refuses to acknowledge that the phone belongs to me after I buy it, good enough has to do.

There are two things referred to as “Linux”. One is the full operating system, sometimes also called GNU/Linux, and one is the Linux kernel, which is just the “backbone” of the OS. Android is an OS that uses the Linux kernel, but it is not a (GNU/)Linux OS. There are some Linux distros for smartphones but they are very few and for only a very limited set of devices.

My first experience with Linux was Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I dual-booted for over a decade and even went back to just using Windows for a while before finally making the full switch. I think I spent two or three years without using my Windows partition before deciding to give Windows one last chance, which lasted a month, then wiping it and sticking to EndeavourOS for my daily driver/gaming desktop and vanilla Arch Linux on my laptop.