MiddledAgedGuy @ MiddledAgedGuy @beehaw.org

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I'm worried there won't be much of a backlash.

People as a whole don't seem to care very much about the bad behavior of these big tech companies.

I hope I'm wrong.

The nuances of this are beyond me, but I feel like it's likely this would eventually be overcome.

Your best protection from having your images manipulated is to keep them off the internet if at all possible (we can only control what we post).

Basically I'm saying to treat the internet as hostile. Which is unfortunate, but accurate.

I use newsboat (console based reader) and sync it's config and database with syncthing. I don't do this on my phone, though I've considered setting it up. It is available in termux. I don't think it'll make for a very pleasant mobile experience though. But, it's a solution that meets your criteria.

You'd need Microsoft/Apple/Google to agree to this to get these client side message scrapers on devices.

You'd need commercial/closed source e2e messaging services to agree to add a backdoor.

Why would they? Not that they care about end users, but corporate interests will take issue with it too. And it's a bad look. UK is just one market for these global companies. I'm not an expert in such things so I'm basically talking out of my ass, but I think it makes sense.

But even if they somehow manage it, people will learn how to circumvent it. And then there's open source operating systems and e2e messaging which are immune to this.

Edit: grammar.

Mutt is a console based client, so if you have to deal with a lot of html or image laden emails it can be a hassle. There's options for these things, mind you. You can call a text based browser to produce fairly readable text output within the client, or use an external application (browser, image viewer, etc.) to view it. Or anything in between. Mutt is extremely customizable. Just something to be mindful of.

That being said, I'm also quite happily a mutt user 😊.

Came here to suggest this as well. You said no easy access to fire. I don't know if that means you can't have a firepit or any kind of fire period. If it's the former, you could look at backpacking stoves. They're small and compact. Good way to boil some water.

I don't know many. The only one that comes to mind that isn't already listed is Reel Big Fish.

My general cynicism of people as a whole drives my opinion, I suppose. While it can be successful sometimes as you point out, I don't think enough people would contibute for a donation based model to work in most cases. And people already have subscription fatigue just from online streaming services.

But you know what would be awesome? If I was wrong. Especially about the donation based model. Enough people opting to donate for high quality content that it becomes a viable default? I want that kind of web.

I don't want to see any ads either. Even unobtrusive ones. It's just different levels of annoying and given the choice, I'll pick zero annoyance. I also don't want to be the product. Not just as a target for advertisements, but from information gathering for profit.

I do see the problem with this. Most sites are run with the expectation of profit. And while not explicitly my intent, I go out of the way to be as unprofitable as possible to these kinds of business models.

I do opt to pay for a couple of privacy respecting online services and I... rarely but not never donate to sites I use frequently that are privacy respecting and not ad supported. And that gives me some feel goods to support sites and services that align with my values but it's not really viable for the internet as a whole right? Hoping for some spare change from a tiny fraction of your visitors.

I don't know what the solution to this is. But I mirror OP's concerns about this specific thing. I don't want my browsing to be DRM'd, and I have zero trust for Google. If this happens, they will abuse it.

Edit: Changed organizations to services. Felt more accurate.

I do find I like the idea of not having systemd. I don't hate it, but it feels unnecessary. If I end up back on Arch, I'll check that out!

Looks promising! Seems to check all the boxes. I think I'll try it first. I'll give it a spin in a VM, get a feel for it. Thanks!

I don't have a specific example, just seemed like something a user friendly distro might do.

I'll look further in to that Debian based Mint. Thanks for the the recommendation!

Your mentioning i3 got me to thinking using a light window manager would probably go a long way to keep dependencies down and simplify maintenance.

I've been running sway on a laptop and I'm starting to get accustomed to it. Might be worth considering.

Looks like OpenSuse is sponsored by SUSE, which has an enterprise Linux product.