As always, I got the username wrong…
OK, so, I literally just finished watching Lovecraft Country and I was thinking “this was so tragic, it’s good to know history made things right and this kind of institutionalized racism doesn’t exist anymore, now lets check Lemmy”, oh shit…
There is no property! They made the whole thing up!
So you will if you pay a loan for a new car…
…more, actually.
No decent (local) music player, no DSP, no music streaming with newpipe, decent video player to watch series in bed, screen too small to read books, no e2ee messaging, no web browser, useless camera, operating system without security updates.
I honestly couldn’t care less about calls and SMS, I only use that like few times a year.
While not full proof, but you can always sandbox it with firejail or bubblewrap.
But make sure to read the documentation thoroughly.
I used to be very against Chinese infrastructure, but after all, why is European/American spyware better again?
The fuss is that every time you transcode to a new format you accumulatively lose quality.
So for example if you have an 320kbps mp3, but then that takes too much space so you transcode it to 192 mp3, but then you discover the opus codec is more efficient so you transcode it again, but then you want to make a fan video of the same song, so your video player transcoded it again into video friendly aac.
The quality on your final video is going contain the faults of all the files upstream.
Meanwhile if you edit the video from a lossless source, it will only get encoded once.
So it doesn’t matter for streaming, but it matters if you want to download and convert to other formats.
Completely unrelated, but I just remembered that I have a server too. It’s funny how often I forget this.
It doesn’t run apache but I haven’t updated nginx in months…
Last time I did a simulation few months ago, DDR4 motherboards (and memory if I recal) were still considerably cheaper than DDR5.
I used to download and seed torrents 24/7 directly from my shitty consumer smr drive.
Not only speed was very slow but I think I killed the drive because of that.
I’m still thinking how I’m going to proceed now that I’m setting up my NAS again, I think I’m going to have to torrent to some smaller, cheaper but higher quality drive and then copy to the smr archive, until I can afford an enterprise drive.
It’s also possible that I killed the drive due to bad heat management, but in the datasheet it says something that I’m only supposed to use it for 2h a day per year and not 24/7.
From my personal ethics standpoint, intellectual property is a form of private property which I’m against, also a form or artificial scarcity, which I’m also against.
If you want to support a small artist? You can maybe donate to them directly? Is that a thing? Maybe they have a patreon or something? In my case I have way less money than the artists I consume from so donating would make no sense.
Also, the act of making a copy doesn’t remove the original, the artist doesn’t get poorer because you pirate their content.
Because not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.
Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don’t wanna risk it.
It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it’s going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.
With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.
For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn’t get any attention besides the average “my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer”. Tech companies know this so they exploit the user’s ignorance.
Unfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.
I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.
I did my research before buying my current phone, but turned out all phones that could run lineage OS were too expensive, not a single affordable phone was supported. (With the exception of really super old discontinued models that are too slow to even open a webpage and battery past it’s useful life)
Tried, but at least in Europe the only cheap pixels I could find were old unsupported ones where the batteries where probably either dead or dying.
For real, when this thing rolls out, I’m going to stop updating and try to still use my foss apps for as long as they still work, once my phone eventually becomes useless I’m not going to spend 400 on an expensive phone just so I can run custom roms. I will have to just get used to not having a computer in my pocket all the time again.
What? Graphene OS only runs on Google Pixel devices.
Even ROMs with wider hardware support like Lineage OS only run on expensive devices too (Or very old discontinued ones that you can’t find anywhere and have no firmware or kernel updates).
You know that not everyone can shell out 400 Euros on a phone, right?
Funny because I have the exact opposite experience.
Most of my life I’ve lived in a tiny apartment, so tiny that I literally can’t keep my room cleared because have no space to store my stuff.
Yes, I can literally walk to the nearest, coffee place, or take a subway to the mall or cinema or whatever people usually like to go, but I have no interest in those places, instead I would love to live in a rural place where I can walk along nature or just rest outside without being right in the middle of people and traffic and ugly buildings.
Oh, and the worse part, my new neighbors that don’t let me blast my guitar amp or listen to music past 10