Then there’s convinience. People will be free to transfer money across the continent, and also to friends and family without any costs (some countries have that, some dont).

I’m not sure about that part. If GNU Taler is to serve as the digital euro, that has been designed to be taxable. for this reason when transferring money to a friend instead of a business, that will have to go through a third party that sees the transacting parties and the amount.

Taler is very promising, but with it (or another digital euro implementation) we will still need easy access to regular cash.

oh and also, nobody really verifies what gets into an apk uploaded to github releases. but f-droid does have an array of checks, and I like that they can catch if an app tried something fishy or had a build accident (like accidentally including google servifes dependencies that automatically run code, because another new or updated dependency pulled it in). in the past there were occasions where an app got unlisted, and when I went looking for the reason it was either developer negligence, or sometimes changes that were really not too good.

I see, that’s fair. Personally I trust f-droid more. also I was surprised to notice recently that obtanium just added a china specific app source that is default enabled in the search menu. that store is not really known in the global android community.

why do you think it’s better?

I don’t think it’s anti-Rust. I like Rust. I don’t like the uutils license.

we have already paid with our data and beta testing

but is that two different companies, websites, apps, or the same but just little differences?

by default they require a google account to be able to access the play store on android, but you can use the aurora store app to access it without a google account. you can find it on f-droid.

though be aware that in a year or two google wants to lock out all apps they don’t like, by inserting a check into your phone so that only apps approved by them can be installed from any store. aurora, newpipe and lots of others are not expected to make it.
you are affected if you have google services installed to your phone. this includes if you have the factory operating system on it.

the commission should preventively sue google for what they are planning to do with their full lockdown of android in 2 years. their plans almost certainly violate the dma by artificially restricting 3rd party app stores. bonus point would be that apple couldn’t say this anymore.

I wouldn’t go that far. it means it hurts them too. climate change is not good either just because it will also hurt bad people.

I think people are assuming you want to convert people to The Church of Docker, in their minds, if you know what I mean. I do not see it that way, but “what is stopping you from using virtualization” has such a tone as if everyone is supposed to virtualize, but something prevents them and they can’t.

I think a better way to ask it would be “what are your reasons for sticking with bare metal?” or something like that.

sidenote: to me it seems some people here have quite bad experiences with docker. I mean it has parts I don’t like either, but I never had so many problems with it and I’m hosting a dozen of web services locally. maybe their experience was from the early days?

what do you run for RSS?

also, I hope you are not doing backups by dding an in use filesystem

I think this is like sepi’s response but less polite

I don’t think it would be that hard. Microsoft could just change the UEFI certification process. Alternative UEFI firmware could solve it (unless that too is tied to verification like qualcomm does on android), but nearly no modern motherboards have any alternative firmware. I think there was 2 ASUS motherboards with built in wifi capability, but that’s it.

I don’t think we are in meaningful numbers. not yet.

you missed a thorn in algorithm.

where is my prize?? :D

I don’t really see þe “federated” part of it. Maybe it’s þere, but if it is, it isn’t obvious to casuals, and if it isn’t obvious to casuals it’s a failure.

I think it’s because that contrary to the lemmyverse, peertube does not auto-accept federating servers. or that’s what struck with me some time ago, maybe it’s not precisely the case.

lol. microsoft manages the preinstalled signing keys for secure boot. all it needs to do is require motherboard makers to not allow disabling secure boot or installing a machine owner key.

anti spam? on the video player? you cannot think is seriously.

JS is one of the most popular scripting languages anyway so having it as a requirement shouldn’t hinder anyone.

except any of the clients that care about not running whatever untrusted google code in an unrestricted environment.

they can, but you sure will know something happened and you can take precautions, like encrypting the drives

if I had to guess it’s not the install but the mandatory login that counts