Mullvad disabled port forwarding. Bad for torrents. That was when everyone I know stopped using it.

Something that most people fail to do on their tools and appliances is maintenance. My house is full of cheap appliances that are pushing 15 or so years of life and running great, but they require work. Filters need to be changed on dishwashers and laundry machines, people never check these often enough. For example, most people I know don't own an air compressor, which means they never fully clean out all the motor killing dust. Computers, vacuum filters, air purifiers, fridge compressors, all these items need to be blasted with air, way more than you can get from a little can of air like IT people love to use.

Get the proper tools to maintain your things, and even the cheap stuff will last a while.

Sad to hear as a long time Toyota fan, but really not that impactful personally. The cars from Toyota have really dropped off quality wise post 2019, and used market purchases don't give any money to the company.

Here's a much crazier bug report that has been open for 14 years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627771

Who is we? what group of people has the dev funding and time to produce FOSS hardware and software to compete with the average android phone?

Advertising for mullvad harms the peer2peer network. (They blocked port forwarding and won't be bringing it back)

Firefox is literally backed by big tech though?

Ehhh that's a bit of a blanket statement that applies to dealers: I promise you my indie guy who does my tires and inspections will not be plugging anything in. Everything else I will be doing anyways.

That's simply not how it works. The only "computer" system that is required and widely used is still obd-II which has been around since 1996. Thats all the independent shops diagnose with whether the car is 1999 or rolled off the lot yesterday. Any other computer system on board is dealer specific and a specialised system NOT accessed during regular work. Quit spamming misinformation.

Yeah around here the little 90s car would look even more out of place since most people are driving lifted pickups that they are too out of shape to even lift anything into to haul. Guess what country I live in! :D

Typing this on an samsung xcover 6 pro right now. Costs less than 200 used, has a removable battery, up to 1tb micro SD card support, and a headphone jack.

Late 90s and early through mid 2000s cars are gems as they are still very reliable as well as easy to maintain. Being a privacy advocate in this day and age practically requires you to get a cheap wrench set and learn the basics of maintaining one of these era vehicles.

All the JavaScript in gnome make it super icky to me as an ex-webdev, and unusable on hardware that is otherwise perfectly fine with other DEs. From high resource usage, memory leaks, and breaking extensions, I have a hard time believing that their userbase is anyone other than mobile native younger folk who are good at consuming via the iPad launcher paradigm. Just my humble opinion, nothing more.

You speak as though there are two people groups on equal footing doing atrocities here. As if both sides have done the same level of destruction and murder.. That's the crazy part in my opinion.

It would be as if a 6 year old went and punched a bodybuilder, and the bodybuilder went on to curb stomp and break multiple bones in the child's body, and then people defended his retaliation.

It's good to want, and I say that as someone who would dance for joy if an open source phone became viable. If you think starting a new ecosystem and expecting it to be "good, next gen, priced competitively" is feasible via volunteer work anytime soon, I want whatever you're smoking :)

So many people suck up for the better of two bad options. You can use it and still give it deserved criticism, you won't hurt it's (or the wealthy Firefox exec team's) feelings.

sys + v can be bound to bring up clipboard history if you are using KDE!

Cars are the same way, with "lifetime fluid" that should really be replaced at regular intervals. Zero maintenance appliances are absolutely consumer traps.

It does not, but I don't sign into any Samsung/Google things and replace every system app with one from F-Droid including the launcher. The experience is fairly similar to my old pixel with grapheneos like this. I am sure it is far cry from as secure, but I am realistic about my threat model and am willing to make trades to be more sustainable and convenient. The only other difference is the system ui skin, which does its job just fine IMO

Problem is a lot of them would agree with you on the first one, and say all the billionaires are in fact democrats. It's impossible to even backwards reason with the right/YouTube/fox mind...