It’s not that we didn’t listen… It’s that there’s just too many people that see every warning as a suggestion.

But now with 100000% higher carbon footprint!

Wilbur, IIRC is the name of the mascot.

Anyone who has not yet been able to completely cut the US off their business travel.

From the article:

The sabotage entails entering proprietary information into public AI tools, or using unapproved AI tools. Some employees report outright refusing to use AI tools. Others have even admitted to tampering with performance reviews or intentionally generating low-output work to make AI appear less effective.

So, I’d say, almost yes.

You can do NFC payments on degoogled Roms using an app called Curve.

/e/OS on Fairphone allows locking the bootloader.

I even installed it two years after purchase on my own phone, and relocked the bootloader, of course with the same caveat.

NFC payments are possible with Curve.

I use Arch, BTW.

So, I use a FP4 with /e/OS and I like it.

First things first: some things will break. Not many, and not often, but it happens. Mostly Google stuff, but on Android a lot of stuff is Google stuff.

Recently GMaps wasn’t working for a little longer than a week. I was still able to use HERE WeGo (my current favorite) and others even with Android Auto, so it was no problem for me, but still.

Banking apps and such almost always work, but there is a non-zero chance that one of those will break, even for a short while. I have three banking apps and they work flawlessly, plus itsme (Belgian gov app) and a German health insurance (this one refuses to login with fingerprint, but pass works).

Android Auto works, but I don’t think I ever managed to get Chromecast to do anything.

You do get something in exchange. The privacy improvements are there, and the OS-level adblocking as well.

But you have to accept that occasionally there will be a nonzero level of discomfort.

You could keep the old phone around for the apps that don’t behave, or you could use the old phone to test /e/OS before ordering.

The Google Maps issue is fixed. I always kept a judicious distance from Google Home and Pixel Watch, so I can’t comment on that.

Assuming the technical implementation is sound (I’m techy but that’s still way over my head), there is something missing from the explanations I’ve been seeing so far.

The state is of course the one who should be proving my identity, and the website has (usually) no business knowing who I am or holding a copy of my documents. The state however has no business knowing what I’m browsing, and a pinky promise is not enough.

I can’t understand whether this is something that the proposed system offers, or whether it’s a property of zero-proof systems in general.

Obviously something like this must necessarily be Free and Open Source if any trust at all must be put into it.

Well, kinda. You can have access tiers. For instance no access for age<13, limited access for 13<age<18, full access for age>18.

Needless to say, I think this is (in most circumstances) the wrong approach.

We are talking about products that are often deliberately harmful and hostile to all users, and then we expect to have a child-safe version of these. Shouldn’t we try to get an adult safe version too? It would be way easier to protect children then.

Indeed I was not suggesting switching the OS on that device.

But if it quits on you, old thinkpad + Linux will keep you going.

I’m rather concerned about what I do when my Surface Pro 7 dies. I inherited a Chromebook from my dad, but that’s a poor substitute.

Do you need to use Windows? Because any old Thinkpad with Linux Mint will get you through a few years, and performance-wise should be able to handle anything you’re currently doing with your surface. Or hell, I can’t believe I’m saying this, a Macbook Neo.

83% of the searches that happen on PC are done with google and 95% of the searches done on mobile are done with google.

So 12% of users didn’t change the default from Edge with Bing?

As a physicist, my favorite referee comment ever was [That my claim was wrong] “should be obvious to anyone who has ever sat through an elementary electromagnetism course.” He was wrong BTW, and the paper was finally published in a different journal.

I am from a decidedly different field, so I don’t know if I can vouch for you in any meaningful way.

This! If you have good hardware that works, it’s good to keep it if possible.

My smartwatch/activity tracker is indeed a Garmin Instinct 2s with Gadgetbridge. It really does most of what the proprietary app does, and gives you near absolute control over your data.

Can’t really anyone read? Poster above said Portugal or Poland cost 1/10th of the budget above.

And plainly no. In Poland you might get away with spending half.

Has anyone here considered that he simply may be funding subversive groups in a few countries?