Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@ruff @purism They share (and this is what I tried to highlight in the post) a patronizing mentality: that users are children that can't be trusted to have any control, and that IT/infosec/vendor needs to anchor all trust and take control away.

They believe the less control the user has, the more secure the system. It's also conveniently "easy mode" if you are in infosec/IT to just lock the user inside a prison. It's much harder to design security *with* end-user control.

Modern cloud platforms are essentially giant proprietary server OSes, so is Parler's difficulty in coming back online due to finding hosting, or is it due to using so many proprietary AWS features, switching providers is like porting server software from Solaris to Windows NT?

@sbeebe Four minutes, which I think is considered the standard time by many people.

7. Day Three. Still looking for phantom notifications on my watch, but I'm catching and stopping myself more often than not. The tell is when you look away from your watch without knowing the time. It's nice not having to charge my watch every night.

@ajmartinez Ya I've been charging my phone in another room for awhile (except for fire season when I wanted evac alerts to wake me up). But of course the watch charges on my nightstand and it will vibrate with certain types of notifications.

6. I would use my smart watch timer app for my coffee, so I replaced it with a kitchen timer clipped to my French Press.

5. This first day with an analog watch has already revealed to me just how much a smart watch has created subconscious, compulsive habits. It's unnerving to see tech rewire your brain like that.

4. I find myself looking at my wrist in the dark, even though this watch doesn't have a backlight.

3. Despite looking at my watch, if you had asked me what time it was, I couldn't have told you.

2. While writing the previous post I literally checked my analog wristwatch to see if there was a response to my first post yet.

1. I have checked my wrist frequently, sometimes only minutes apart, for notifications that aren't there. I almost never check to see the actual time.

I've worn a smart watch for 4 yrs. At first I was on call and quick access to notifications was a huge bonus. Recently I've questioned its effect on me so today I switched back to a traditional watch as a test. This thread contains my observations.

@isagalaev Apple tends to support iPhones with software updates for *much* longer.

@dredmorbius I typically can't comment on the potential for future hardware or revisions of current hardware :)

@dredmorbius Our market is everyone, not just tech-literate, because everyone deserves privacy, security, and freedom. Customers prioritize those three legs of the stool differently and you might be surprised how many non-tech-literate folks are happy laptop customers. Like w/ laptops, the phone market mostly starts with a FOSS core who values freedom first, and will expand outward to everyday folks who value privacy or security over freedom.

@dredmorbius Business model is similar to Apple's but with our ethics: sell things people are willing to pay for (premium hardware and services) to fund things people aren't as willing to pay for (FOSS development).

@dredmorbius https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/

The power went out for half my town a few minutes after midnight, which was a kind of creepy way to start the year.

@isagalaev Any different from what?