This was mentioned in Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. So, what do we do about it?

Yeah, this is so fucking annoying. I’ve been banging on about Signal for years, but everyone except a small handful of my wisest friends insist upon using WhatsApp and Discord.

Almost everyone I know also uses Instagram, and no other social media. I am yet to meet someone in real life who even has Mastodon.

Same vibes:

Sadly not. The Taliban are one of the worst groups to ever exist; but I am, in this case, talking about Reform.

I don’t understand how an organisation can be so comically evil and still be polling higher than anyone else.

Oh.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! What the actual fuck, Google‽

I swear to Hephaestus, at this point I’m considering switching to UBPorts or Sailfish OS or something…

Reminds me of the xterm(1) README:

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here

This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of the first “serious” programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage. Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014 subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do.

It possibly does work under Wine, but I didn’t want to risk soft-bricking my tablet (which happened anyway, but that was because I didn’t let the download finish before flashing).

I used to use MicroG, which was quite easy, but I don’t actually have any Play Services implementation installed nowadays. I use my phone for GPS and things that would require it, so I just keep my tablet clean.

I’m getting on very well with the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7, on which I run LineageOS; although a later model or something from the S-series may be more performant. I wrote this blog post about it.

I love LineageOS, but on this machine the bootloader cannot be re-locked and there will probably be someone about to reply to this comment explaining why LineageOS is insecure or whatever. Also, Samsung devices require that you have a Windows PC in order to flash ROMs, as you have to use Odin instead of fastboot.

Also, it’s worth noting that, while /e/ is slightly superior from a privacy perspective, it is potentially less secure, as it sometimes takes months for the team to apply patches from upstream. Lineage, meanwhile, only takes a few days or weeks.

I’m aware. The wording of the headline is funny, though.

What a horrible banner image

Absolute dickhead. What’s next? Am I getting fined for disabling JavaScript? What about using Links2?

This world is a dystopian shithole.

Damn, this one’s oniony!

*skibidi

I scored 13/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Even better