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You know there's plenty of control freaks micromanaging everything underneath them even if it pisses off their best people to the point of quitting.

Especially those 1 or 2 rungs higher up the chain who need to make up problems to solve so they can justify their existence.

Worker ownership of the means of production.

I.e. profits from goods and services go to those who provide them rather than investors.

I've found that while shorter people often wish to be taller, tall women actually hate being made aware of their height. Even if it's framed positively / appreciatively.

I think they're aware that some people (idiots) say it makes you less feminine, usually because of those people's insecurities.

A personal journey that depends on far more than sexual orientation, and that obviously cannot be generalized.

If you made that clueless comment to a trans person IRL, I wouldn't be surprised if they punched you in the face over it.

Huh, last time I tried I had the reverse impression. But it's been a few years.

I can't help notice a certain number of "butch lesbians" and "sis men" just saying "fuck it, I'm the other gender and straight" and going all the way.

That's either phrased poorly, or a frankly insane take on gender.

That's hilarious, because less than 10 years ago Outlook on Mac was so fucking broken that I started a list of the weirdest and funniest bugs at the time.

Also it seems frankly insane to me that people would actively choose a Mac for this reason, and I say that as an M4 owner. But I guess it's true that for most users the OS barely matters as long as their 2-3 apps and the browser work fine.

Have you tried LibreOffice Draw? I love it for that same reason.

I've always used LibreOffice for that purpose. It's more familiar if you're used to office software vs graphics design software.

The city of Munich's move to open source software across thousands of workstations was by all accounts a success on a technical level, which I'm sure could be replicated by most European administrations.

The problem was, of course, political. The incoming conservative admin needed to paint the outgoing center admin as incompetent, and to do their usual corruption of course. So they jumped on a specific department's complaint about an issue with one piece of software to cancel and roll back the entire fucking project.

A few months later, Microsoft opened up their new European headquarters in Munich. By sheer coincidence I'm sure. And in no way related to the fact that they have an incentive in the billions to keep people convinced there is no workable alternative even decades later.

It's still preemptive compliance by Microsoft.

Trump loves this shit because if it blows up, he can just say "I never ordered this."

inb4 "how is US"

Also check out Droid-ify instead. Same repos but much better UX than the native F-Droid client.

Pixels are known for their outstanding camera quality and you can get GrapheneOS on them.

The GrapheneOS dev wrote a wrapper / sandbox for the Google core services that spoofs some "required" APIs, and it allows full control over permissions.

The average user doesn't give a fuck about security. They use whatever manufacturers put in front of them because the alternatives are not known or reasonably available to them.

My dad bought a new tablet. I spent over an hour debloating it with ADB just to get it to a usable state.

I really don't know why people love their products. Even the performance out of the box is utter shit until you disable the virtual RAM.

Yeah they're built to last decades, but only with top maintenance and replacement parts. Which I think was the point of the top-level comment.

That foundation sounds like a real-world oxymoron.

And yet people would rather hold on to a terrible status quo than risk it. Especially in times of desperation, and as long as they're aware things could be worse (for them personally).

It's the big catch-22 of modern civics and political engagement. Terrible conditions make many people look towards the systems and rulers that bring about those terrible conditions.