Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

@dallin@fosstodon.org Google has a #GetTheMessage campaign now: https://www.android.com/get-the-message/
Not too long ago I got an Android phone, and went to college. Making friends, we got in a group chat, and eventually me and I think one other in the group were discovered to be the ones with Android, though they didn't mean it in a rude way.

But still, it can cause interpersonal gaps. Harming personal messaging between your devices and a competitor's is one of the saddest forms of #bigtech #vendorlockin I can think of :(

The most sustainable phone is the one in your pocket. Make it last. 🌍💚

#changeisinyourhands

@dallin@fosstodon.org Apple's vendor-lock-in with iMessage is particularly bad, because not only does it harm functionality, it hinders social interaction for non-Apple users, and makes Apple's messaging system look superior while doing it. RCS, a new texting system, fixes a lot of problems with traditional SMS and MMS messaging. It has very wide support from pretty much all modern tech, except Apple's (surprise). And so poor messaging between Apple users and everyone else continues.
https://www.howtogeek.com/349968/what-is-rcs-the-successor-to-sms/

I came up on hardware that was 10-20 years out of date when I was using it, because that's the best I could get. And you know what? It worked fine. Using these junky old systems taught me patience, and how to think through a task before I do it. And most of all it taught me to never trust a computer with anything important: paper is crash-proof. It also taught me about the relentless cycle of enforced obsolescence that pervades our society, and that I want no part of it.

It took Benjamin Franklin three hours to get going in the morning. Suddenly, I feel decently high-functional.

“Are you sure you want to remove this account? This will remove your access to resources like email, apps, network, and all content associated with it. Your organization might also remove some data stored on this device.”

Uni: This is how we write resource-efficient algorithms.

Also uni: All communication for this class will be through [insert processor-melting multi-gigabyte bigtech adware product here]

@Charadon

They're not horrible, but outside of Gnome, they're very jarring.

It's just so dadgum unnecessary. Mutter can draw the blaster bars.

#GNOME is constantly playing the power grab game, and I'm sick of it.

Nobody wants to be Unix anymore (openness, utility, usability, interoperability), they all want to be MacOS (consolidated control, like-it-or-lump-it, one grand master vision 😂)

I'm so done with the *ego* of these projects.

Shakespeare was ahead of his time.

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