Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

@oss It's kinda like an Amazon Echo, but made with mostly publicly available parts with the exception of a custom board and a fully open source software stack. You can literally run the whole thing offline if you want, or use their cloud based backend. The software is written in Python and can be easily added to with Skills to perform whatever task you want.

@golemwire

I agree, except that anyone should be able to flip a hidden switch on hardware they own that:

1) Formats the disk (overwrites first MB or so of encrypted volume)
2) Marks a CPU fuse/flag saying that this device no longer plays DRM games or runs the console OS
3) Unlocks the bootloader
4) Exposes full hardware access to any OS or software you choose to install

This should be standard on ALL hardware sold, of ANY kind, and enforced by law.

Here's the next short early for those who clicked on this. ;)

User interaction done right:

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What do you do?

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I don't want to spam the town too much, but...

The view is so good it's almost like cheating when taking pictures.

#theCartographer

You want to read a man page for `foo.' *Actually* read it, not just do a quick search or just consult the command-line switches.

Do you: _____

#BOOST for more fun, thanks! ^__^

@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.

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