jabjoe

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Done. Good on OpenRightsGroup pushing this. More this is highlighted the better.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

If Firefox had enough market share to be a problem for Google, or would probably also have enough money to not need Google.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago

These American Big Tech monopolies pump money out of our country, and many other countries. They are parasites enfeebling us all.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

He was radicalised by money. Lots and lots of money. He had a price and it was met.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

They had really got the locking people in down to an art like they so now. It was a more innocent time, computer wise. Now, if it's not open, basically assume they are doing something bad.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In a decade or two, they will be electric and there won't be a carburetor. It will all be more like that parking system. The moment software comes in, much easier to lock people in. That needs to not be the case. It's always made out that somehow working on software of these things is dangerous, but somehow working on a mechanical machine of controlled explosions of flammable liquid is not. Most people are just going to flash on firmware someone else did.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Surely repairable doesn't mean no tech, just open tech. I'm sure there is tech features that are worth having. It's the vendor lockin and enshitification that isn't.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 26 points 1 week ago

The return of the fat client in the age of AI mainframes? Nvidia is selling shovels in the AI gold rush, so they don't care either way.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think you can be pro copyleft and pro-today's-LLMs, which are used to wash away copyleft. Copyleft and LLM poison the code and downstream developers have to play nice.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Guessing you don't like GPL either. Restricting those developers down stream of you.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. Right now it is the mainframe era and the billionaire monopolies want it that way. However that is a future not one but them wants. Little tech rebel alliance is the way to go. I'm not interested in big tech's imperial AI.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If they are commiting code they don't understand, this is but one of the issues they are going to get hit by. They can't blame the AI, the buck stops with them.

 

It too me a while to work out why my Nextcloud stuff wasn't working on my phone. It wasn't until I went to http://duckdns.org on mobile data I saw the block. I had changed ISP from one with IPv6, which I had setup, to an ISP without it, and thought it might be that. But it was just coincidence.

I've written to O2 but I doubt they will change anything, so I'll be changing network.

So heads up UK O2 self hosting people!

 

So I've got Android as I want. LineageOS, no Google, Magisk, MicroG but with AndroidAuto with OsmAnd+.

But the outside world of WhatsApp, Bank apps, etc is putting pressure to join. Plus not everything works properly with MicroG instead of the Google service provider. Makes me cross techno-politically, but I can't always hard life tech choices when it effects others.

So, what do others do? At the moment, I've thinking I need a non-free phone and a free-phone! Then what, I keep swapping SIM?? I can't see a workable VM solution to run a non-free Android in a freer Android.

The state of the phone market is pitiful.

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