opensource can’t be monetized for advertisements.

It can!

That’s what Google did with Android: Google literally made a free open-source operating system everybody could copy, use and develop for for free, to create a wildly successful ecosystem.

Once the ecosystem was fully developed, slowly, year after year, Google moved features out of the open-source AOSP project and into their proprietary stack. Look at AOSP now: it’s a shadow of its former self.

And now they’re killing off AOSP and AOSP-derivatives and turning Android into their own Apple-style walled garden.

I’d say Google very successfully used open-source to its advantage. Google sure knows how to play the long game.

That is one of the reasons. The other reason for me is, Wikipedia’s stated values are incompatible with staying in the US. So as long as they’re there, they don’t meet my expectations.

I’m not giving money to Wikipedia anymore until they move out of the United States personally.

(no consumer is going to pay for extended) begins to really push people to Windows 11

Consumers aren’t exactly ecstatic about throwing away perfectly serviceable computers just so Microsoft can push their spyware-cum-advertising platform down their throats either.

I’d say this is a great push towards Linux for anybody who knows anything about computers and isn’t a corporation with a dumbass MCSE jockey as an “IT” guy.

apt generally downloads more things than apt-get on my Debian machine. apt-get never broke anything, but I tend to eye it suspiciously now.

Yeah alright. That’s one way of looking at it 🙂

I guess what I meant is that I don’t like upgrades that happen without me explicitly requesting each and every one of them, and me watching the upgrade process as it happens for errors.

No Linux system of mine upgrades itself without my explicit consent. That’s one of the many reasons why I don’t run Windows.

The poster would be more convincing if you hadn’t inverted apt-get update and apt-get upgrade…

Well, not quite. I was more thinking of love, compassion, a loving family, a job I like… that sort of things 🙂

I’m rich in things that have no price.

ICE arrested me.

The bill to fund the Gestapo has been passed. Too late.

Trump’s tariffs are illegal though, and could / should / will be hopefully annuled.

That’s assuming there’s a democracy left functioning.

The United States.

“American comeback” indeed…

Tankie porn… Eew…

You should write to your reps that banking apps be mandated to support multiple operating systems outside the duopoly.

Yeah… Good luck with that. This is beyond naive.

Your rep doesn’t give a shit about monopolies or duopolies (if they did, Google and Apple would have had their collective ass Sherman’ed into a million itty bitty pieces a long time ago) and they don’t care about your privacy and how you feel about it.

All your rep cares about - if you’re lucky - is more mainstream topics like taxes, employment, housing, education etc. And more likely, all they care about is lining their pockets and winning the next election to line their pockets some more.

I’m tempted to try Ubuntu Touch. But I want to buy a second-hand Fairphone 4 to try it on, and other OSes possibly - because I don’t want to waste the CalyxOS install that’s running fine on mine right now - and I haven’t found a good second-hand one yet.

If you went through school without learning anything, it means you’re a normal person.

Don’t worry too much. What you need from your school is a degree, not an education. You do your own education. The degree doesn’t mean you know anything: it only tells your employer you were patient and dogged enough to sit through boring classes and terrible teachers all the way through.

That’s the real value for your future boss: they like someone who can withstand and survive the idiocy of the workplace. You getting your degree is reasonable proof that you won’t be a snowflake and leave them hanging when the going gets a little tough.

But make no mistake: you know nothing out of school. Nobody does. All employers know that. The best you can hope to get out of school is the ability to learn all the rest quickly after you’re hired.

The way Google is actively on the war path against deGoogled ROMs and sideloading lately, I expect to have to install some sort of mobile Linux OS on my Fairphone at some point to do my regular smartphoning while preserving my privacy, while having to buy an ultra-cheap, small smartphone on the side with vanilla Google spyware just for my banking apps. In other words, carry two cellphones for nothing. Because Google.

I guess now that fascism rules the land, Google isn’t worried about being getting broken up for being a monopoly anymore. That emboldens then to finally do what they’ve always wanted to do: lock down the Android ecosystem.

Fuck Google.