For most people, including most city dwellers, trains are indeed the correct solution.

That’s not how recycling works.

Most recycling today is PR anyway. Recycled stuff gets dumped into some poor third world country.

All I am saying is that he built Tesla and SpaceX with government (taxpayer) money.

The problem is no what happens to lithium afterwards. The problem is what the environmental cost of getting the lithium out of the earth.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/14/electric-cost-lithium-mining-decarbonasation-salt-flats-chile

why? I don’t get it.

Lithium mining is very bad for the planet. ICEs are bad, but battery EVs are also horrible.

Both electric cars and spacex are government subsidized industries. He’s not competing on the free market. Elon excels at getting the government to make his business for him.

Musk is a great salesman and a terrible engineer.

Twitter is a bully.

Fairphone 4

of course, why wouldn’t I?

It should be illegal to sell a device whose bootloader can’t be unlocked.

Seal is awesome!

I’m using the AnySoft keyboard, but I’ll give openboard a try.

DNS66 is an amazing adblocker

LibreTube is the best youtube client out there

Unlike Signal, Telegram is a very realistic alternative to WhatsApp. It has almost a billion users and works really well.

Which is perfectly fine

I stopped checking protondb or winehq when buying a game. Games just work on Linux these days, and I assume by default that they will.

It could be people masking their agent string, which probably has a high Linux userbase.

It’s higher in countries that are poorer and run old hardware. For example Linux has more than 10% market share in India.

End2End encryption is mostly a PR stunt. In practice it’s not hard to go around it. For example:

• going after unencrypted backups (such as in google drive)
• compromising or seizing your device
• forcing the app developer to leak the private keys
• forcing you to turn over the information by threatenening you with not cooperating.

It reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

There is no way for these companies to say no to law enforcement. That is why you should stay away from corporate social media.

I want to see Elon’s empire sink.

I think this is Google’s long-term plan.

openstreetmaps.org ecosystem

for navigation I use Organic Maps: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/

I like OsmAnd too, but it’s too much for most of my use cases. I still use it for recording trips.

not really. Android’s customizability is what makes it better.

not really. Android’s customizability is what makes it better.

Friendly competition is always good.

Telegram ProtonMail My bank’s crappy app

Fitness and health influencers often promote extremely unhealthy lifestyles. No suprises there.

I’m using libretube

I’m using Jerboa

This is already happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

There are no valid arguments against remote work.

Gaming Linux has been seamless for 2-3 years now. I stopped checking Linux compayibility scores around 2021 because I expect everything to work now.

No consumer wants this. Microsoft wants this.

What if my wifi goes down?

Does it support LineageOS?

I don’t think the loss of moderators will be a huge problem. I suspect mods actually drove people away from Reddit rather than retaining them.

What is an existential threat for Reddit is the emergence of competing platforms.

being able to run scrcpy easily over wifi