Best I can do is link to the relevant part, since it’s fairly complex and it’d take me quite a bit to summarize it to where it’d be useful information beyond what I already mentioned with the AI poisoning method.

Yes it is, as are Ring Cameras.

Fun fact: Flock cameras are susceptible to Lidar damage!

Benn Jordan also came up with a great way to prevent flock cameras from reliably reading license plates using the same methods that artists are using to poison their images for AI.

Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of that either. Still works if you block it, but as you say, it really shouldn’t be requesting that at all.

I notice they have a general inquiry email in their contact section, maybe they’d be willing to take on your suggestion?

I think that sounds like a damn solid plan, personally. Not sure if the GrapheneOS devs would go for it. The lead dev (who I thinked stepped down, so may not be a factor now) had some strongly negative opinions towards a Linux phone due to all of its security holes compared to Android, but like… It’s not as if those things couldn’t be addressed like you describe. It would just take time.

A user here emailed slate asking if there would be any tracking, and they responded that it would not, as it wouldn’t have the hardware to make that possible.

We’ll see if they actually follow through on that.

If you’re using that currently, do you notice that on a fresh reboot, if you sit at the desktop and just wiggle the mouse for a while, or keep creating selection boxes with your mouse, KDE will freeze for a random amount of time?

There’s still time for a general strike. The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.

If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), please consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one.

• 🌍 US/Global: IWW (Français) - (Español)

And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above.

• 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA
• 🇦🇺 Australia: ASF-IWA
• 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
• 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS, CITUB
• 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU
• 🇬🇷 Greece: ESE
• 🇮🇹 Italy: USI
• 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond
• 🇪🇸 Spain: CNT
• 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: UVW

Also @FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world

Interesting. I’ll have to see how it compares to Trillium Next.

Yikes. I loved that framework trailblazed repairable laptops, but those responses are pretty bad.

Edit: it’s so much worse now. That thread is flooded with bad faith far-right assholes, who in another thread admitted to trying to silence dissent by reporting comments to get the treads locked, and one called for framework to ban discussion of this issue entirely.

Mobian is Debian designed for phones. PostmarketOS is another project doing the same thing, but with an alpine Linux base.

It’s also pretty awesome that nowadays 4, 5, or even 10 year old computers are still totally viable to use for most use-cases, which would’ve been unheard of back in the 80’s and 90’s when hardware had such giant leaps in speed every few years. I’m loving that we finally have some longevity with hardware, and that Linux is able to actually extract that longevity from the hardware in spite of Microsoft’s efforts to cut it short.

Geany is a great, lightweight FOSS editor that totally respects your privacy, and supports all if the languages you mentioned, plus many more.

I think it’s supposed to represent a lowercase ‘a’? But it doesn’t quite work for that either…

Everything in there is a fantastic improvement, like damn, that’s some fine ass UX design.

I’m not as big of a fan of the logo redesign though, I think they needed to retain the waveform between the speakers, IMHO.

It doesn’t necessarily need to achieve mass adoption, it just needs to get to a ‘good enough’ point to make it viable for those who are willing or desperate to get away from big tech.

Linux still has plenty of people giving reasons why they won’t switch, but it’s now finally viable for many, including myself. I just want mobile Linux to get to that point too, even if there’s still rough edges.

We rapidly need to switch to Linux Mobile. PostmarketOS and Mobian are the two most promising projects, and I would highly recommend anyone reading this to donate to them if you have the means.

Both projects directly use your donations to hire developers to build and polish the critical essentials to get this alternative viable as a daily driver.

When I tried it a few months ago, I found that documentation was very sparse. It was difficult to even find out all of the things they had modified from either standard fedora or bazzite.

And while the reviewers complain of it being sluggish in a VM (not a good real world test IMHO), I too found it to be slower than a standard distro.

I like the ideas from uBlue, but they seem to have far too many projects to properly polish and support each one.

Freetube app for desktop.

Linux is pretty damn polished now, in some areas more polished than Windows.

Battery management seems to depend on the specific device and how well supported and optimized it is. As an example, the steamdeck gets better battery life on Linux than it does on Windows.

But we’re at a point where the 'polished39 options are so user-hostile, that a ‘good enough’ community built alternative is enough.