[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I partially agree and partiallt disagree with the article.

While it's true that's easy to ignore the contribution of Europe to technology as a whole (remeber that ASML, the most advanced litography machines that allow the 7,5,4nm production, is a dutch company) and you may very well call it a success.

However, it's also impossible to ignore that those USA companies still dominate our world. Sure, universities use linux and many open standards, but they also use Microsoft 365, in some cases in the entire infrastructure. Android without Google is almost impossible to imagine for 99% of people. Everyone and their dog buys so much stuff from Amazon.

And that's a problem, because one country holds our life by our ballss basically. If microsoft collapsed, thousands of companies and institutions would cease to operate. If amazon collapsed, millions of europeans good would be unsold.

Europe has contributed a lot to technology, but to make then truly relevant, they must be used by everyone, not the tech entusiasts. I only know of a few people who use OpenStreetMaps and they are all techy like me.

I think we nees to regain that power, if not for European sovereignity, at least to have competing products that avoid enshittification.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 2 points 8 hours ago

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but RedHat also had more recent updates compared to CentOS, while also being certified.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

Not only that, usually lettinf people out fully and then going is is faster than getting all crammed and sruck trying to enter.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 91 points 2 days ago
  1. doing things you are not supposed to do is fun
  2. thinkering with electronics in fun
  3. we are sacrificing our freedom to megacorporations that continously tell us what to do, what to think, what you can and can't do with devices we own and enshittify them. Taking back some of that freedom feels good
[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Linux Mint has a program simply called "Drawing" that does exactly that. You can resize pictures, draw shapes, write text, paint and save as other formats. It's a big buggy and unoptimized, but it's cool. For simple things, it's sometimes more convenient than GIMP.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think it's more about learning to be human. He imitates other people and their mannerism not because they find his nature inconvenient, but because he think that by imitating them he can understand.

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[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 48 points 1 month ago

Windows 11 refusing to install on hardware it can absolutely run on.

IP rating on smartphones so there's seals and glue everywhere and opening them up is a fucking nightmare.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unfortunately the exploitation in the porn industry is so high, it's entirely possible that one of these women didn't really want to be in any video, especially if you consider that those kind of video are mostly filmed in low-income eastern europe country, so it's either a localized cultural feticism, or just a place where it's easier to find vulnerable girls.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not a good choice for a name, at first I though it was just another linux phone that would be useless for 90% of people.

Very cool project instead, hope this can lead the fondation for a 100% open source mobile OS.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 29 points 3 months ago

Don't answer the question, ask them for specific examples on why they think you are being unmotovated or unfriendly, don't be aggressive, just pretend you simply don't understand. They'll tell you some bullshit and you can tell it's a misunderstanding. Keep a polite and friendly tone.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 40 points 3 months ago

This is just weird. Why make these changes? Customers don't want it, the company doesn't profit and they actually lost money and reputation by doing this and not backtracking. Who is benefiting from this? It looks like a perfect lose-lose situation

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 29 points 4 months ago

Probably some guy working on legacy hardware found a bug, fixed it for work and while was there, pushed it.

Or you know, some other guy with a lot of free time dusted off some old cards and wanted to play with them.

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