It seems to me that quite a lot of people want flies and that's why quite a lot of resources are put into that type of shit.
I was trying to explain to this dude in the pub - who didn't understand my explanation that I don't have a hairstyle - that I thought vanity was a waste of resources, and he looked at me like: "but everyone wants to look good, right?" He was confused. I was confused.
I disagree that it's conservative. It's nazi/ authoritarian/radical.
For 50 odd years afer ww2 the cons knew this was a daft tactic.
Prior to that (well prior to 1790 ish ) con/feudal/landowners managed their serfs and peasants, they didn't want infighting. (outfighting, thats a different , maybe lucrative albeit lottery).
Cons are just common or garden cunts. populists are serious, they can mobilise labour .
The traditional cons wil ride the wave because they have no choice and no friends. until they realise they'll be expropriated eventually, which the nazis won't do until after they have critical mass. Fucking con Niemollers
It's many thousands of years of solar power , concentated in to a storable, portable and fairly accessible and transmutable form.
Countries don't "generate" coal and oil, they suck it out of the ground.
It was generated by thousands to millions of years of life and accumulated geological processes.
I don't see it as a paradox, but as rational. But there are people who I think do hold tolerance as some sort of moral compulsion, and get offended by the notion that it might just emerge from people figuring out how and why to cooperate, without any high and mighty guiding morality.
These people will also object to using rational models to understand/describe human behaviours, because they can point to many examples of people acting irrationally. Many of these examples are psychology lab "experiments" so are irrelevant to the real world. But plenty of real examples of things like loss aversion and risk (mis)percepion, sunk costs, time-inconsistent decisions and so on where individuals clearly do behave "irrationally".
I often come across people who believe that this undermines anything any "rational model" has to say.
And so I do try to use such reasoning with those people, or even challenge those observations with examples where collective rationality does seem to emerge as a social (not individual) phenomenon, then I'll be derided as some sort of neo-conservative capitalist fascist or whatever.
So I find that it's generally good practice to chuck in some insult about one type of political zealot or other every so often, so as to quickly establish where I stand. I'd rather be vague than waste my breath with zealots.
It's a great argument for backups.
I don't think clod/DRM based services are the best backup - certainly they're not a complete backup system.
If you have a local system and/or communication failure, or bandwidth limitation; how long to restore the backup?
A backup on a local storage should be possible to plug into another computer and access fairly easily.
Ideally your backup system will give some resilience against many types of risk scenario, especialy for the data you care most about or can't go for a long time without. The fact that it's harder to backup DRM stuff is a limitation - so I'd avoid DRM unless i don't care about the thing.
Or seen as a repeated prisoners dilemma, play tit-for-tat, or maybe (N*tit)-for-tat (where N gives a 'punitive' damages expectation for breching the accepted norms).
Quite a lot of lefties don't like thinking about what is "rational" though because "people aren't cognitively rational" so rationality based social equilibia can obviously never have any relevance.
You have to be careful to get a phone and model supported by one of the projects. Check all compatibility and install instructions before buying a phone. And if you need a manufacturer supplied unlock code, make sure the manufacturer still gives them out . Some will discontinue that service after a few years.
For graphene os you need one of the gogle devices - i've never tried it but i think its the one most people like.
lineageos supports more devices usually older.
I recently got lineageos working on sony experia xa2 - very happy with it. But to get there i had to go try like 6 computers before one of them sucessfully sent the bootloader unlock code over the ADB. For some reason usb is temperamental when doing stuff like that
It is a lot easier on really old stuff like samsung galaxy s3 or s4 if you can tolerate something that old.
Maybe you'll lso end upon an old version of lineage.
Once you get the bootloader unlocked it is generally straightforward. but modern phones make that fist part awkward.
It seems to me that quite a lot of people want flies and that's why quite a lot of resources are put into that type of shit.
I was trying to explain to this dude in the pub - who didn't understand my explanation that I don't have a hairstyle - that I thought vanity was a waste of resources, and he looked at me like: "but everyone wants to look good, right?" He was confused. I was confused.