Since Dodge v. Ford Motor Co (1919), if not earlier.

See also: https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

TIL you can now drive there from France.

It’s not “for repairs.” It is, itself, damage.

That’s Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former district, just for context of what sorts of people the locals are.

Their audience is the kind of person who still buys paper magazines, so…

I’m seconding the request for a writeup.

I second the recommendation for TP-Link running OpenWRT (that’s the important part).

I’ve been using a few Archer C7s for going on a decade at this point. (So long that they went from “OpenWRT” to “LEDE” to back to “OpenWRT”, LOL!) They’ve been working fine that whole time, and the only thing that annoys me about them is that they’re a funny shape instead of being rack-mountable.

E is for Extinction.

So you’re saying there’s a chance.

But downside of a M series is either you run macOS or Asahi Linux and nothing else yet.

I’m OOTL; what is it about Apple Silicon Macs that apparently make them such trouble to support? If one distro can manage it, what’s stopping that code from being upstreamed to the mainline kernel etc.?

He said “sub $300” \s

As I said above, what we need are more apps allowing the use of private data storage. Your own “cloud” (server).

Right. And F-Droid actively encourages exactly that by calling it an “anti-feature” whenever an app connects to a network service but fails to work with the service of your choosing.

I’m literally telling you about the thing that addresses your exact concern, and yet you’re nonsensically bitching that I’m somehow the one who doesn’t know what I’m talking about? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Why do you keep talking about cloud shit? What part of “[they probably don’t] require network permission at all” did you not understand?

In fact, if some app’s data did “[go] to their cloud,” F-Droid would slap a big fat anti-feature warning label on it saying “this app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service” and not put an install button in the list in the search results, forcing you to go through an extra step if you still wanted to install it!

I don’t know why you’re trying to fearmonger so hard when F-Droid really does everything it can to protect you from shit like this, short of actively restricting you itself.

We shouldn’t have to go back to pen & paper to avoid big tech; that’s an absurd overreaction to the point of almost coming across as a strawman argument. We should expect to have privacy-respecting alternatives (e.g. from F-Droid, as others in the thread are mentioning) available, as well as effective consumer protection laws.

The solution is not to just give up; the solution is to force the world to get better.

I mean, you kinda do because F-Droid maintainers check for ‘anti-features’ like that before approving each app to be added to the repository. That’s the big benefit of it over something like Obtainium.

I haven’t checked myself, but I think it’s very likely that there’s at least one period-tracking app on F-Droid that doesn’t require network permission at all.

The inventor didn’t think they were useful.

Somewhere at Heinz there’s a filing cabinet with recipes for sauces 1-56 in it, and none of them taste very good.

That’s for the fork with a UI implemented in Qt.

GIMP being worse doesn’t mean WLBR isn’t bad.

I mean, even in an LTS distro, it sure would be nice if the packages were reasonably up-to-date on the day the version was released.