No, the Graphene developers insist on hardware functionality that is not present on the Fairphone.

The company I worked for (late stage startup) was bought by a giant mega corp, which has an office nearby. Literally my first month there and they announced a return to office policy.

Proper accounting would consider the costs of retraining against the existing vendor. After all, that’s vendor lock-in, which your vendor will use to raise prices…

Thanks for the offer! But I’ve been running Linux only since 2002 or so, currently with Arch on my laptop, because I’m not yet brave enough to try Nyx. 😄

I just installed Linux Mint on my dad’s old laptop. He asked me to do it!

I checked and it could run Windows 11 with a RAM upgrade. But he wasn’t interested in that.

He was surprised at all of the software installed by default. And mostly just uses the browser to read his Outlook mail…

Yeah, they caught the Dread Pirate Roberts because he leaked some account name, IIRC. There is no such thing as perfect opsec. 😬

I find this trend to disregard every action as “not enough to matter” to be tiring.

Unless such a reply contains specific actions to take in place of what is reported, then I basically consider them propaganda for the existing powers to encourage further inaction.

Backseats of cars? This is the UK not Florida.

I use up3foe torrenting, but Tor for porn. It’s fine.

Probably not, since I’m a vegan.

Do you have a citation handy for that?

Tests showed the house covered in the new paint used 30 to 40 percent less electricity for air conditioning than the other houses.

Wow!

Big if true. 😆

In practice range seems to be a few kilometers, in places with lots of nodes.

Very sunny places, like Los Vegas.

By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?

All of these were taken by the state, not the workers, which was the question.

I know it’s asking a lot, but you could give an example instead of insulting me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can’t think of any examples. Taking over the company requires capital, which is the one thing that capitalists constantly extract from workers so they don’t have any.

The workers of xs4all tried when their new corporate owners, KPN, decided to dissolve them. But a combination of lack of funding and unfriendly courts prevented that. They did end up starting a new company though…

We’ve already got free software for filing taxes, kthxbye!

Is it? Almost every time I use it I end up hitting a bug or missing feature. Just last week I was trying to get Word in Office365 to keep some lines together. I followed the instructions from Microsoft’s help and it didn’t work. Last month I was trying to get “slide M of N” on the bottom of PowerPoint in Office365, but apparently getting the N is just not supported.

LibreOffice almost always works for me, far more often than Microsoft Office.