As soon as T-Mobile’s check clears, the conservative SCOTUS will make sure all phones remain locked for eternity. Praise Jesus!

It’s some small comfort that a conservative’s ability to construct a complete sentence is matched by their ability to formulate a complete thought.

I guess this means Fox News and OAN are about to start demonizing Firefox.

(⁀ᗢ⁀) hahahaha

Oh, shit haha! I thought you were serious for a second. Can you imagine if we ever held a corporation accountable for the damage they’ve caused? I mean it obviously can’t happen, but wow! You had me for a second!

Why in the absolute fuuuuuck would a “secure” computer with sensitive data be running motherfucking Windows?! Linux is easy enough for pretty much any Windows user in an office environment to handle these days. There’s just no excuse for sensitive business to ever be done on Windows at this point.

Unfortunately, neither are good replacements for professional work.

Switch to who? The FTC is allowing them to all become one company.

I’ve been using the Fairphone 4 for a few weeks now. The hardware is excellent in every way. I am coming from the most recent LG ThinQ which has higher specs than the Fairphone 4 on paper, but the Fairphone actually feels better to use. It’s much better than I expected.

Hell yeah! They got electric V8’s now?! Bout time!

“Pay me more for the thing you already bought, or I will leave you stranded.” -Elon

This man is a national treasure. His app (Grayjay) is desperately needed and could solve the biggest problems YouTube has created for content creators (and therefore viewers). We should all be using it to follow content creators instead of their YouTube channels.

I was able to fix it using a free open source download called “Mint”. In fact, Mint permanently solved all of my Windows problems!

The first time I saw a version of this article was the summer of 1993.

The Threads threat is a big-picture threat. The specifics can change month to month, but the end goal here is a corporate take-over of a FOSS technology.

Gate-keeping at the dev level right now is a situation that can change over time as the corporation continues to insist itself upon the community. Ultimately, it is the community who will need to prevent this, not just the devs. We will need to stay vigilant against this threat forever.

They are the borg. The defense against them will take stamina, patience and resilience.

If the Threads userbase eclipses the non-Threads userbase (which it would), and their dev budget eclipses the public’s (which it would), then Threads would heavily influence the development of the entire platform. Threads-federated instances would be subject to Threads-influenced updates and “upgrades”, leading to eventual enshittification for everyone. To avoid their updates, you would need to defederate from the Threads-verse, where all the users would be.

This strategy to take over, monetize and effectively own the Fediverse is not hyperbole. It is a known strategy used by corporations to take control of FOSS software users. It’s called " Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", if you’d like to read more on it.

To prevent this scenario from happening to the current most active instances of the Fediverse, these instances need to stay defederated with Threads to begin with and therefore remain uninfluenced by the “development” that Threads will be pushing for Activity Pub and Lemmy servers. This is an existential crisis for Lemmy that should be taken serioualy by the current devs and instances.

Neoliberals are conservatives. Always have been. By all international standards, the Democrat party is a conservative party and the Republicans are a more conservative party. We don’t currently have a viable left/progressive party.

The government already heavily subsidizes the “struggling” industry (that somehow still makes outrageous profits). The government really should exercise more control over the industry, given that they (we) pay a very high annual price for it to exist.

They cannot be used to judge one’s actions.

So, when I say it is my moral obligation to help rid the planet of conservatives because they are evil, I do hope you will not condemn my moral actions.

In the U.S., you can be fired for practically anything.

That list is not “products made or designed in Israel”. That list is just companies that support Israel.

I just don’t want anyone to have the false impression that a relationship with Israel is necessary. It definitely is not.