lemmylommy @ lemmylommy @lemmy.world

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Tesseract OCR is Open Source Software. How can it be a site that they steal information from?

With a bit of luck they still have a GDPR deletion process in place.

Lebensraum

One of the early Samsung Android phones. They dropped „support“ less than a year after release and even during that time refused to acknowledge serious bugs.

The community built Android versions managed to fix most bugs, and even made dual touch possible, but then again could only do so much without all sources. And usually they were not the most stable either.

On the one hand having a smartphone with touchscreen, apps etc. was amazing. On the other hand Samsungs bullshit meant I wasted a lot of time chasing a properly working software for my phone that it should have had from the beginning.

Looks to me like Trump pulling the emergency break on the resources deal and at the same time manufacturing a reason to pull support from Ukraine and NATO.

The “we are out” was the point of the whole thing. Trump never negotiated in good faith.

Exactly.

What is the „new experience“? Usually that means enshittification.

During the search of his property, the police found an underground nuclear shelter, which was built during the Cold War and equipped with Nazi insignia.

Usually Non-Nazis do not decorate their underground nuclear shelters with Nazi insignia.

It’s great that you want to support your kid and hopefully get them away from the focus-destroying dopamine traps that are many „kid friendly“ apps. But please ask yourself what your kid likes first, not what you want them to be interested in. It’s perfectly fine to restrict tablet time and let him focus on what he likes, be it computer stuff or football or cycling or reading or painting or whatever. If he really interested in Linux and nor, xor etc that’s great, but don’t force it on him.

And that is coming from someone who bought and built his first own computer around that age and wrote his first few lines of very basic basic code not long after. Not because it was expected of me, but because I was interested and given the opportunity to follow those interests.

So, if that kid is interested in computers, Minecraft is a great game for kids. It encourages creativity, problem solving, perseverance and, maybe later, collaboration. It’s also possible to play together and scale their experience to their age: get started in creative or peaceful, then let them discover mobs and mods when they are a bit older, then let them play with friends.

If the kid likes building and Legos, you might want to look into Lego Boost and Spike, although they are rather expensive.

Oh, and paint. Kids love paint, be it MS paint, Paint.net or any other open source alternative. Show them that with a computer they can create, not just consume.

Not an American, but as an iPhone user who has had Android phones since cupcake before: iPhones „just work“, they are a lot less janky than Android, the ecosystem is smooth (although admittedly and intentionally less so when leaving it), they get updated for longer (and at the same time!) and apple has a much better privacy track record than the competition (a low bar).

Yes, I would prefer to install my apps from anywhere I want on the device I should own. An open source phone from top to bottom would be my dream, but Android is about as far removed from that as an iphone. Google took Linux and made it into a Frankenstein nightmare that is wholly dependent on them.

Just try to stick to open source and make your phone respect your privacy and see how far you get. Start at the usually locked bootloader, install a rom without google and see how few apps are left that do not require google services. And even then you are most likely dependent on binary blobs for the drivers, meaning the manufacturers can (and will) pull the rug from under your efforts as soon as they no longer feel like updating their shitty built of Android for the device in time.

I do not have time for that. What I have is enough money to buy a phone that comes as close as possible to my idea of safety, freedom and privacy without constantly jumping through burning hoops. If I am to be in a cage, it better be golden.

Good thing we didn’t elect Kamala because of gEnOciDe.

Also, as the article shows, pro child-prostitution

If something happens after we die, what’s the point of it all?

No matter if anything happens after death or not, or what happens, we can not know and we don’t seem to be able to comprehend it either way. So we can not know if what we have got is comparatively good or bad. The only thing left is to make the best of it. Because why not?

But … but … gEnOciDe

Of course they are. „the worst“ are usually hard to catch, unless they already are in prison. Whereas normal people have regular places to be, school or work, where they can be caught easily.

Also, technically, there will always be „the worst“, just as there will always be „the best“ migrant.

The FBI and NSA actually advocated for end to end encryption recently. So either they have finally come to their senses or they have acquired the ability to break everything easily.

The new alliance already exists. It’s called the European Union.

Hitler was small, had dark hair, brown eyes and just one testicle while talking about the master race of virile, blonde, blue-eyed tall people.

Perfect for the mall ninja crowd