I think Linux phones are something for enthusiasts still. If you found Graphene to have rough edges it’s not going to be much better in the world of Linux phones.

Android apps can run through a compatibility layer called Waydroid. Allegedly it works pretty well, but it’s not super convenient.

Personally I put my bets on a Fairphone 5. It’s currently running /e/OS, which is a French open source degoogle Android. Open source development for the Fairphone 5 is very active. If I were to install something closer to proper Linux on it now I would go for Ubuntu Touch (which uses the kernel from Android rather than mainline), but it seems like it’s also moving quickly towards supporting mainline Linux and PostmarketOS in a good way.

The phone should last a while as it’s repairable, and if they’re not ready for Linux phones it makes it easy to install /e/OS to get back to degoogled Android. And it has a large community of users/developers. So I think it’s a good option.

Then again, if the goal is a fully FOSS phone for casual users it’s possible waiting a little longer is not the worst idea.

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As a European, half time shows generally seem overproduced and kinda shit. Like Eurovision without the ironic distance, but with more corporate sponsors.

Bad Bunny was just genuinely great. Never listened to any of his work before, but what a show.

If hearing someone singing a language you don’t understand makes you feel insecure… Well, yeah, maybe you should be a little more exposed to other languages.

US Americans have no excuse for continuing to cling to their ignorance. It has gone far past the point where it’s obvious how dangerous it is.

Jeg er drittlei de forente stater.

But the evangelical Christians want the Jews to trigger the rapture by fighting the final huge war in israel, and I imagine the antisemites are also fine with the Jews all being sent away to israel for then to be sent off to fight a senseless war to their deaths.

Somehow they managed to start off from different angles and both end up wanting Jews to die.

This guy couldn’t sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.

I had no idea - that’s really cool!

Germans also seem to be privacy oriented people, I can imagine this combined with recent developments could have a real impact.

0 to 1 percent: 22 years
1 to 2 percent: 8 years
2 to 3 percent: 2 years
3 to 4 percent: more unstable, but between 1 and 3 years

I would say it’s an encouraging trend.

When I started using Linux in 2009 it had around 0.6 percent market share on desktop. Windows had 95%.

Today Windows is measured below 68%, and Linux has been measured above 4% by statcounter.com.

These things move faster the more people make the change. Linux only reached 1% in 2013, 2% in 2021, 3% in 2023, and 4% was somehow first measured already in 2024. For every single person making the switch it becomes easier for others to do the same, and companies consider Linux support to be a little bit more important. One can only wonder at which percentage of market share it will be offered as a mainstream alternative when buying a new computer, but it seems pretty clear that we’re getting there.

I guess my point is that we all won when you ditched Windows. Thanks for that.

Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts

Interesting contrast to the church itself, which has the capacity of turning people into passive consumers of thoughts that have been painstakingly processed for centuries.

The melody isn’t catchy and the instrumentation is generic. The vocals are worst part

Welcome to folk music dude. Some of us like it.

If you want an overly produced pop track with 15 vocals stacked on top of each other in perfect harmony you’re not gonna get it released two days after the song was written.

Yeah, I was initially going to object that his best work was surely 44 years ago with Nebraska, but then I realized it’s only 31 years since Ghost of Tom Joad and it’s a crazy good album. But that was 1995.

Personally I’m a huge fan of his latest albums as well, but each to their own.

Past his prime is doesn’t really say much in the case of Springsteen, his new albums are still great and his concerts are incredible. But I appreciate that you’re attributing his prime to the period around the Ghost of Tom Joad, which is one of his most underrated albums for sure.

Of things I dislike, people accusing real artists doing real art of being similar to the AI slop generated by stealing their work certainly makes the list.

Mojeek is the only usable engine I know of that’s European and truly independent at the moment. But the results are not nearly as good as in Qwant.

SearXNG also runs on Google and Bing in the backend, and I can never seem to find an instance that works reliably.

I think the Qwant/Ecosia index focuses primarily on the French (and German?) speaking web to begin with, but I’m hopefull it will get good in all languages eventually.

Going out guns blazing will be seen as an escalation, even if that’s what they’re doing already. That’s just the reality of the situation. Hell, they’re currently trying to justify their killings with arguments such as “he held a phone” and “her foot fell on the gas after she died”, and parts of Trump’s base are nevertheless buying it. If anyone actually came at them with weapons they would be having a blast.

You don’t end violence with violence against footsoldiers.

Pressure against the regime works. Trump and Vance are not afraid of ICE agents getting killed, they would be overly excited about it. They are not, however, excited to see the country rise in pritest against their fascist takeover.

I’m just saying that the fact that America tends to lose its wars is very meager comfort for those on the receiving end of them. You can’t really win a war as a civilian.

Protests and strikes are working. Organize locally in a positive and constructive manner (maybe get active in a union? Do you still have those over there?), build community and dedicate time and effort to that. Be the opposite of the fascists, don’t just echo their ideas of violence.

It might not feel so badass, but you’ll do more good as a living organizer than as a dead agitator.

If you want to die a martyr, Luigi showed that there’s a better way than to go in guns blazing towards low-level losers working as fascist henchmen. Ultimately the awful people in ICE and US Border Patrol are also victims of this broken system, they’re just too stupid to have figured it out.

Oh yes, because the countries the US invaded for natural resources have all been thrilled to have been murdered by american soldiers. They should really be grateful for the opportunity granted to them by the US to win a good war.

War is shit. Find a better solution.

Of course, I’m not saying you shouldn’t prepare for the worst, but don’t fucking escalate.

They have been stocking up on heavy military surplus materials for years and are incredibly horny to get to use it. These people are extremely excited about the prospect of civil war. They are not afraid of people fighting back, they are drooling their idiot faces off daydreaming about it.

So yeah, maybe try to think up a more efficient form of resistance, though I sympathize with the sentiment.

An important distinction nevertheless. There are a lot of calls to abolish ICE, not so many to abolish the US Border Patrol.

If I were American I’d at least like to keep track of who is executing my fellow citizens in the streets. But maybe I’m just a pedant.