I don’t get the hate against the lemmy devs tbh, they have their (perhaps controversial) political views but they leave everyone that’s not on their site alone and it feels like they develop lemmy pretty impartially

sure they might ban you off ml but that’s their site and they get to do whatever they want with it, just like every other instance

i mean network effect is a thing i guess but that’s not as important on lemmy where there are usually similarly large communities about genetic things on most major instances

don’t let them change the meaning of our words then

people won’t follow you to the new platform if you seem dumb

you could make 4 Google accounts and compress the data into 4 encrypted files, and upload them each to their Google account (they have 25gb max)

op should try postmarketos /s

no it’s not?

you can see the axes and op even mentions that it’s a 5% drop

the graph is clearly just fitted to the data

there’s a middle ground between a 2008 laptop and a 2024 laptop lmao, you don’t have to choose one or the other

kde takes 20 minutes to load

why do you want a new laptop? you get way better quality and performance for the same price with used ones

some laptops don’t have removable wifi cards, few don’t allow you to boot without it installed because of a whitelist

wow lemmy users really don’t like being called low iq lmao

not really a high bar tbh

on ios there’s orion browser which is still webkit based but supports firefox extensions like ublock

unfortunately it’s prolly never going to be foss, the devs said they were working on making it foss 2 years ago and they haven’t done anything

idk, never worried about it but my main computer doesn’t have it so I just passively use that for important things

cameras aren’t really about resolution or detail these days though

i don’t get why sane people would rather a person with good opinions over a free independent web browser, the latter just seems so much more valuable to me.

people can have different views. you might not like them but it’s their views, not yours

I’m already taking actions, but I do it with the understanding that it won’t make much of a difference.

I’m sorry to break your bubble but most people just don’t care. They want their computer to play a video off the internet, and don’t care how long that takes as long as it works. Maybe they’ll care about things in the specific interests they have, but they won’t care about computers, software, and libre software.

We, people that care about software freedom are a minority and we need to accept that. And the only way to get things done when you’re in the minority is to borrow power from the majority, e.g. by passing legislation.

free market works when the market is actually free.

As soon as entry costs are introduced into the market, the free market falls apart.

Think of the costs of building factories, rnd, lawyers, etc.

voting with your wallet doesn’t work when most people would buy anyway (whether it’s because they’re ignorant, trapped to do so, etc)

The minority of people that actually care and know about privacy and software freedom is just a tiny statistic in Apple’s perspective, so voting with your wallet doesn’t work.