It reminds me of when Obamacare passed in the US, and the Republicans tried to repeal it over 70 times in the first seven years.
I genuinely think there needs to be a rule that when something fails to pass (or be repealed), there needs to be a decent ‘cooling off’ period before it can be attempted again. Passing wildly unpopular legislation by just spamming it over and over again until everyone gets tired of fighting it is no basis for a system of laws IMO.
I think that’s all of them.
I don’t really remember TBH, I got into Linux at a pretty young age, but that was more about hating Microsoft than privacy. Then got into VPNs because of downloading stuff, gradually drifted down the Ubuntu > Manjaro > Arch pipeline, started hanging out on privacy forums and now I’m one of those people who needs a Yubikey to decrypt a chain of LUKS-encrypted drives to boot into a laptop that has nothing of any value on it at all lol.
I’m legit interested in that anti-camera hoodie that was in the new series of Dexter, but I’m not sure if it’s actually real or not lol.
I can see the UK doing this, they love to implement ludicrously restrictive and impossible to enforce anti-privacy laws. My working theory is that they’re lobbied to implement them by IT consultancy firms, who then get hired to consult on, say, banning VPNs, take 10 years to investigate it at eye-watering cost to the public, then go “Yeah turns out you can’t ban VPNs, I don’t know what the previous government was thinking” and then use that money to lobby the new government to ban encryption or some other nonsense, then repeat.
As a person from the UK, I am fully expecting them to implement this in the next year or two, because ruining the internet seems to be the government’s top priority rather than say, fixing the economy or preventing Reform from taking over for some fucking reason.
I’ll bite!
I think you could make an argument that being compensated for your labour, but way under the value your labour produces and also under the constant threat of homelessness and starvation if you don’t do it is still an unethical system.
I do KDE with Karousel, which is similar to Niri I think.
I just checked and I apparently have 137 apps on my phone. I think most of that though is just reading about some FOSS app, installing it to try it out and then just forgetting. I seem to have 4 different maps apps for example lol
I like Betterbird, I find it slightly more less worst.
I just go around looking for other people who post their problems, then aggressively tell them to read the wiki and report the thread so it gets closed.
DNA is one that concerns me quite a lot. I can see some arguments in favour or retaining DNA on file for a longer term in certain cases - persistent sex criminals comes to mind - but I really think there should be tighter controls about just indiscriminately gathering DNA, and if you’re not found guilty of anything that info should be expunged and this should be independently audited IMO.
Also facial recognition for similar reasons. This feels like it should be the sort of thing to me that needs a warrant to be used, like searching a person’s home. Governments shouldn’t be allowed to just endlessly trawl through the faces of everybody who’s out in public for whatever reason they like. And using it to just sweep protests to (presumably) make a database of protestors should be a big no-no.
Yeah I like Strawberry too. It’s not flashy looking but it does everything I need.
As a KDE user, I have long ago accepted that no flatpaks will ever follow my system theme, and they will all look completely different from each other lol.
I like filen too. I don’t know if they still do it but you used to be able to buy lifetime plans and stack them, so I picked up 300Gb of storage without a recurring subscription by just buying a plan every time there was a sale/Black Friday thing.
That’s essentially what I do. I’m an old user and was running arch before it had archinstall so I’m fully capable of doing a manual install, but I also don’t have a particularly unusual computer setup so the script is like 95% fine for what I need. I do a few post-install tweaks but that’s pretty much it.
Yeah I’m doing a playthrough on that right now. Only got as far as coal power but I’m really enjoying it.
I clicked on it out of curiosity and it just went to a page saying it was invite only and then asked for my email so I just closed the tab lol.
I wish there was a better way than the “be a horrible piece of shit for the first half of your life until you get your bag, then do nice stuff to rehab your image” path a lot of of them seem to take, but at least we get something out of some of them that way I suppose.