houses

It’s not a home, that’d be cruel. Those are not cruel and reckless scientists. :D

Why use a closed platform when you can have an open universe of places?

Why make yourself dependent on a small team when you can instead be independent and use sofrware create by a large community without being bound to a single provider?

idk, I don’t see the point.

idk, seeing flags of single countries somehow does not feel like the right thing if we don’t to be very European.

But it’s basically a fridge! Everyone knows how bad fridges are for the grid… wait.

Sure, it’ll be hard. But still. It’s being made hard to stop sensible politics from winning, itʼs just the idiocy trying to keep others from doing something good, to do something nice for the world and other people. And that must never win.

You mean than the people can afford? Just build apartment complexes and subsidise them, social housing. Helps fight poverty as well. Combine that supernarkets nearby and job opportunities that can be accessed on a short walk.

Just build houses of stone. Europe even has got some that are 1000 years old.

Letsencrypt is fine, but keep in mind that US sanctions could destroy it anytime. Even their rules state that they’re not allowed to cooperate with individuals or organisations sanctioned by the US.

It’s time to look for European alternatives there as well.

Yup, it’s also brought us more rights and you can freely travel and move to other places. :D

The goal isn’t cheap labour, but to get living stamdards on the same level, slowly, over time.

Thank you for clarifying.

you’re referring to the thick gap between the train and the platform

Level boarding as in: No difference in height, no gaps. Allows old people and disabled people and more to get on board and far easier.

Sadly it’s an extractive technology and business model, those are not good for society.

no reason for you to apply genuine concerns

What? The issues by which I’m concerned are reason enough to be concerned.

Buying a used phone that is already at least somewhat supported is better than slop-coding another phone and wasting resources in the process and then others having to clean up the code that nobody actually understands.

Yes, new electronics are part of the problem, that’s why the community brings Linux to old phones.

The post from Casey, linked by lenni, addresses exactly those points. It’s still extractive and hurts communities.

Just that.

There is no true life within a false life.

The philosopher Theodor Adorno sums it up quite well.

Slavery, for example, wasn’t solved by handing slaves over to nicer owners, but by ending it.

In a similar way, it’s not possible to improve the world by using exploitative tools, you can’t improve something while destroying it.

For example, not using text generators because of the fossil fuels that this will burn is a good point. Just because it could use electricity from sustainable sources, does not mean it won’t hurt humanity to use it.

Just because it could be better does not mean it is.

I decided to not have a car, because while those can be made to hurt the planet less, they do hurt the planet a lot. And there’s already public transport. Even electric cars aren’t better than taking the train. And I live in a place where this works quite well, so I do that.

I can do better now, not in the future when LLMs might (or might not) better.

I don’t buy products that will quickly be trash just because the companies could build bettee products. We have a choice.

(Footnote: Adorno wrote that sentence looking at the fascist terror in Europe in the 40s. What he is saying, basically: You can’t do the right thing when you live in a system that punishes that. Try to start a protest against cruel Nazis and you’re dead. You can’t further understanding among nations under those circumstances.)

Sorry for the wall of text, having lots of thoughts.

Or just use Ecosia or DuckDuckGo.

A search engine finds you places to look at and doesn’t hallucinate incorrect details.

I know it’s perfectly possible to do mainlining of a device and work on the kernel stuff simply by reading stuff, asking people and bouncing ideas while strengthening the community in the process and having fun with other phone hackers.

It’s not a good tool for research, it will just generate a hallucination and you end up doing something which does not work or just works somehow, but is not done correctly and will break in the future.

I talked to quite a few people recently at the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference, it definitely was noticed that more contributions are now coming in that do things wrong or in a subtly broken way and the submitting people have no clue.

If you rely on a lying computer for research, then your code will lie to you.

Images don’t like there’s level boarding, which makes it inaccsssible to the people that most need public transport: The elderly, the young, the pregnant, the injured, those in a wheelchair, those with kids in a pram, people carrying bicycles, anyone with a walking frame

The article does not address those concerns.

Please prove me wrong.