Same here in UK. So many people think of it like email. A universal communication system. They can’t see the problem with it being a single, closed, for profit, provider. Now Meta feels people are locked in, they will be finding out. But they still won’t see the problem until it ratcheted to really bad. Like frogs in boiling water.
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jabjoe@feddit.ukto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Thoughts on hosting OS on microSD vs M.2 hat + SSD on Raspberry Pi 5 for Plex/Jellyfin/torrenting and maybe cloud?English2·29 days agoIf you do use an SD card, use an official one rather than a random one. Not all SD card are the same and the official ones have been selected for this use.
This helps with wear and the power loss issue, which is the biggest issue with them.
When SD write, they shuffle which block is which to share out the writes. If power is lost in the middle of this shuffle, you get a new type of corruption no file system can handle. This is why you must shutdown anything running from an SD card, not just yank the power.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)English6·1 month agoI’ve been using it for over a decade. I use it to auto upload all my family photos from family phones. I use the calendars to organize. I use Notes on my phone all the time and pick them up my laptop. I use Passwords for all my passwords. I use Contacts to sync my contacts from my phone and Thunderbird. Then I nightly remote backup it to a machine I leave at my parent’s. It’s great.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•World Boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing for all boxersEnglish151·1 month agoAnd those tiny number of edges cases need to be highlighted to show it does indeed happen. With biology, there is rarely ever truely binary. Biology is too mushy.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracyEnglish14·1 month agoJust leaving this here : https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
This is battle they can’t win and it just makes everything stupid trying.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•Trump threatens new 'Dark Age' with policy of 'deliberate destruction'English4·1 month agoIf the US falls apart, it will be a bloody civil war. The only winner will be competing world powers. Of which, only the EU is really a beacon of light of enlightened values. In no way is that a good outcome for US citizens or the world. What is needed is a concerted effort to evolve the US from where it is. Two parties is not really a functional democracy. Law is bought and sold, and there is massive inequality.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this yearEnglish5·1 month agoRight to repair, and openness, is absolute must for devices being put into peoples bodies. The fight seams to not even started yet. Most people are completely asleep to issues right now.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this yearEnglish18·1 month agoKaren Sandler did a great talk on closed source software medical devices many years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1h1s_ojpM
This even more the case if it’s your brain! It probably won’t work for decades, but we should get house in order long before it does.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktopEnglish1·2 months agoLocked down means a power imbalance. The users are then just serf and will be abused. I want users empowered and the right to repair, repurposed and upgrade. Locked down devices mean short lived disposable devices, built as ewaste, that hoover up user data when used. It’s dystopian.
Let alone where are tomorrow’s developers coming from when they are growing up in such nutrient poor environment.
I rage against this dark serfdom future, but it’s on law makers to regulate to keep consumers/user free. So I’ve monthly donated to OpenRightsGroup for over a decade and always telling people to read some Cory Doctorow.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025English14·2 months agoThe only one with a different web browser engine? The only one that is actural competition?
jabjoe@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•UK and EU to defy Trump with ‘free and open trade’ declarationEnglish4·2 months agoOh it may well get worse. FPTP could give them power. Rarely does the power in party have a majority of the population support. Labour need to ditch FPTP for good of the country. But they won’t because they could win again, and it’s party before country.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•UK and EU to defy Trump with ‘free and open trade’ declarationEnglish351·2 months agohttps://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/half-britons-believe-brexit-has-been-mostly-failure-so-far
Still a lot of fascist idiots. Generally they are old, but that still a lot of people. Poll have changed more because Leavers are aging out, rather minds changing.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st stateEnglish7·2 months agoThis didn’t work out well for the US last time.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacherEnglish4·3 months agoLiterally his own words. About his only words that got to my feeds. I keep my feeds clear as I can of Nazi/MAGA/misogyny/toxic stuff.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacherEnglish61·3 months ago“Sex is for making children. Any man who has sex with women because it ‘feels good’ is gay. Oh my pee pee feels good this is great!”
Why any teenage boy would hear that and not unsubscribe is beyond me. They are the other way round. They don’t want children, they just want sex with women. That’s normal for a heterosexual teenage boy.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.English2·3 months agoOk, I accept all that, but the maps just are better to me. I grew up with the UK Ordnance Survey maps, and that’s kind of what I want from my maps.
I’ll amend.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.English11·3 months agoNot quite the same. The big thing with GrapheneOS is it can run the actual Google services, but sandboxed. Organic Maps is better than Google Maps in everyway, but it’s routes are so much worse because it has no traffic into to go on. It’s an anticompetitive network effect, but it’s hard to fight without law makers.
Edit: Ok, it is good, but the main thing I like about is the maps can be setup to be as good as ones you’d manually navigate by. A bit like UK’s Ordnance Survey maps.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•Trump admin considering giving $10,000 to each person in Greenland to annex the islandEnglish12·3 months agoEven before that, who would want to be in part of America by choice? The health care horror show and massive inequality are but two reasons.
If they use means more funding to foundations & projects, this helps everyone. You can see a feedback loop were more and more things hit critical mass. This is a nightmare scenario for the big closed source houses.