alvanrahimli

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Ladybird is extremely amazing project. Andreas is a good person, with great community around him. The only thing I didn't like is the new logo - it is very meta-ish. Looks very corporative, and doesn't really resemble browser :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

hell yes. been using this combo for over a year now, won't ever look back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

with fairphone, I am afraid of inferior build quality. Reviews tell they got old hardware and stuff. But will prolly get fairphone once I get some extra money :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've been using GrapheneOS on Pixel 7 for about 5 months now, and haven't seen any issues. With this, bootloader is also locked, so no issues there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for being the last required part to push me to using sourcehut. I am already loving it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can you please share some info about why office 365 is in a dangerous spot in Germany? Very based country btw, this might be the reason why they donated 1M to GNOME project, considering it public interest project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kagi is doing surprizingly nice job with the search results. I was an early adopter with beta program, and can happily tell that it has been several months since last time I did the "g!". I'm in professional plan ($10 as of now). It is so good that I forget it's existence. It is just there and working nicely!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, I didn't know this one. Will definitely check. Thanks a lot!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (10 children)

People living in EU. You guys are lucky. These cookie banners and stuff behave differently there because EU forces the reject all button

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

🫡👮‍♂️🏏

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

The last one is always github trends. If you end up there, no luck for you then. Go cook something or go outside

 

TLDR is, now looking back at the whole image, Louis thinks he hasn't been able to do enough impact on industry, and it could have been better place without him.

I personally do not agree. I've always seen him as the face of Right To Repair movement. He has done a significant work on this field, and without Louis and passionate people like him, the industry would most certainly be worst than ever.

But unfortunately, this is the most one person can do. Average person simply doesn't care, and those who do, they are largely outnumbered. These companies are bigger than most countries, and have huge impact on world economy. Therefore, governments can't do (often, willingly, don't even try) much about their anti-consumer behaviors.

It is quite heartbreaking to see these kind of "self-questioning"s from the "right to repair guy" himself, but I simply can't blame him! He has been doing this advocacy for 15 years now, and unfortunately, it has only gotten worst. I doubt if the field will change to the better. Advancements will happen, but in its current form - consumers are just consumers. We have lost our particularity, and these corporations are fighting for ~~us~~ our attention span.

What do you think? Is there a light at the end, or are we living in it's best times?

 

We (me with a friend) created this page https://openwebdefenders.org and planning to create banners for websites that may want to inform their users on what's going on.

If anyone wants to contribute somehow or have other ideas I would be happy to discuss on https://github.com/openwebdefenders/web/issues

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