jabjoe @ jabjoe @feddit.uk

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The main problem is political not technical. The market had been allowed to become a duopoly and too many critical things now need an app on an Android or Apple phone. The worse I know is banks needing an app for authentication for their online banking. No separate security device anymore, those are ewaste apparently.

Public EV chargers where you can only control them from an app.

Riding book at theme parks. The cases are growing. Even the app is just wrapper of hidden web page!

Frankly I think regulation is required to get competition in the market. Not the only tech one either. Why is it so hard for law makers to see monopoly in tech?

Really easy and you know it. Of top of my head:

"Get who wrote this rubbish in here." "I've message them. They are coming to the meeting now." "You mean a team or an individual did this?"

It does depend how pedantic you want to be. I'll dyslexic and I don't process language like others and so I don't like ambiguous. My default interpretation is frequently different. Human language has enough ambiguousness as it is. I'd like it reduced ideally.

Mob rule is the breakdown of law and order. Which a failing of governance.

They don't vote for this. It's stupid FPTP and people not realizing it's a two party system.

That is mob rule. It's not the rule of law.

Anarchy doesn't work.

He'll wait until he has man Trump back in. Then NATO can't be counted on.

If you get aggravated being degendering, or of others changing gender, it makes me think you are insecure about your gender. They should get over it. 'xe' would be good, but I don't see it taking off with being popularizied some how. Some popular TV show or something.

It's hard to force language to evolve in a specific direction.

It's never too late for justice to be done. Though more of it has to done the later it is left. No one is talking passivity here. Everyone wants something done this time and done sooner next time.

Mob justice is not justice at all.

Edit: english

It's not clear when you say they if you mean a person or a group. The term is for both. It's ambiguous.

The problem with mob justice is lack of due process. It frequency gets the wrong person as it can't be reasoned with.

We could do with something though. 'Them' doesn't really cut it as it's not clear if it's plural or singular. 'It' is insulting.

If there was a good one, I'd just use it all the time for everyone. Why should gender be so important to identity? Isn't it a regression to be so hungup on gender?

Those dependencies adenoid and no kept Upton date, unlike deb/rpm installed stuff. Best sandbox to not compromise your system. Also hope that sandboxing is done right...

Even they aren't the most sustainable directly anymore, it shows there is an appetite for sustainability. But as I said before, I don't want this just left to the market. I want ratcheting minimum legal sustainability standard, right to repair in law and repairability index on products. Plus a lot of other stuff to help alternative operating systems compete.

Ah, you are talking about paper and carboard. I thought you meant cotton fibre. As long as it can be recycled.

My last phone I got 5 years out of and it was second hand when I got it. At work we make of point of keeping old equipment going as long as we can (adaptors is one of the ways of doing that). I'm absolutely not encouraging waste.

Competing against the main phone makers is extremely hard. The market is very competitive on hardware. FairPhone do about as well as they can do. The problem is blind trust in markets. Consumers aren't suddenly all going to wake up and make long term decisions with lower value upfront. It's like FairTrade, why is it left to a consumer choice if trade is fair or not? What is needed is regulations.

I'm afraid your audio jack is legacy so few want it's not even part of this discussion to me.

I don't get why this works you up so much. The majority of users have gone wire free, and the manufacturers have cost optimized accordingly. They have left backwards compatibility via a standardized adaptor.

There is no reason the adaptors have to be fragile. You can probably get cables with the adaptor built in to be honest. Like DisplayPort to HDMI between a PC and a TV used to give that old PC a second life as a media PC.

Not really, as it's a standard you could keep the adaptor longer than the phone. Adaptors keep legacy stuff in use, extending their lives.

Again, compared to what?