Democratisation of powerful tools won’t work because it’s easier to use for destruction than for the opposite. Every psychopath designing superbugs and inventing future weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86k8N4YsA7c

More like; it’s cheap when you have no tolerance and no daily habit. You start paying if you let your consumption grow 50-fold.

https://www.quora.com/Will-there-ever-be-an-ergonomic-laptop/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

My new phone charges at 5W from my old phone’s 20W charger without the suddenly required “PD”.

Because things too, on average, lose value over time when materials degrade and better models come out. Inflation saves the trouble of reducing the old price.

I just wish the new models were better than the old ones.

Odyssey 5 (2002)

… five space travelers … witness the destruction of the Earth; they are given the opportunity to travel to the past to identify and prevent the cataclysm.

Rubicon (2010)

… an innocent character is caught up in, and slowly unravels, a major conspiracy.

Fantastic picture quality (for me, a hi-fi geek with a JVC projector). I forget to follow the plot while admiring the cinematography.

But they do: https://murena.com/america

How about Murena Fairphone/Shiftphone with non-rooted /e/OS and locked bootloader?

The hypersane smart get called crazy by conformists.

It may be U.S. plutocrat strategy to weaken political enemies by killing their companies.

Consider Microsoft destroying Nokia and their Linux phones to benefit fellow American companies Apple and Google.

Consider the Destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.

There are many custom ROMs based on AOSP: GrapheneOS (for security against hacking and confiscation), LineageOS and its descendants /e/OS, iodéOS, and crDroid, etc. CalyxOS is not doing well right now, but it should be back in a few months.

Make sure you can relock the bootloader after installing to protect against attacks through the USB connector.

Murena ships /e/OS preinstalled on the European Fairphone and Shiftphone. Iodé similarly.

Then there’s Volla phone which can have Linux (Ubuntu Touch) and and VollaOS (AOSP-based) on the same phone. There are other Linux phones, but nobody recommends them for normal consumers.

Stop exaggerating. The OpenAI speech-to-text service is a paid extra you don’t accidentally switch on, and telemetry is off by default and hidden in the developer options menu.

(But yeah, OpenAI was a disgusting choice. The default should have been local, even if it’s worse.)

Not CalyxOS right now.
https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/

I went with /e/OS, and it works well, even bank apps.

I believe capitalism is the problem, and should be replaced by a retroactively-estimating value-production reward-system. Only the economy is overhauled, not society.

Capitalism bastardised the internet to be like this. There was a communal web in the making.

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Consider the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Quora’s enshittification has that vibe too.

Twitter.

But now the brain damaged lead generation has the power.

I fixed mine too. Copy-pasting from email broke it.