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  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Different installation methods and system stability
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    5 days ago

    Oh, yeah, I remember that time. Upgrading between major versions isn’t perfect, but it has improved dramatically since about 2017 on both Ubuntu and Debian.

    Debian has also just implemented apt v3, which adds many basic http/s quality-of-life improvements to package downloading and installing (like multithread, better config definitions, easier key mgmt, etc)

    I don’t know about Ubuntu because I moved from Ubuntu to debian 4 years ago for other reasons, but I’m sure they have aptv3 as well.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•To all European Union/Europe Open Source/Linux Enthusiasts
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    5 days ago

    Europe can’t, nor will partner with Graphene OS because 1) Graphene OS likely won’t exist in 5 years with android becoming more and more closed, and 2) Graphene OS is still forced to use:

    • Google phones
    • proprietary android drivers
    • proprietary Google services via shared accounts for some services
    • manufacturer baseband modems, which are closed and very few people know how much data they send and where

    I applaud your initiative and enthusiasm, but there are significantly more hurdles than simply convincing the EU to partner with a few companies.

    If you are serious about this, start looking at projects Steam is supporting (like Proton) and figure put how we can get more developer time into existing Linux phone solutions.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•The AWS outage hit us during the day in Australia. I didn't notice because I run my own server, btwEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The bad thing I mentioned is the loss of our individual control on our lives, things that most countries have enshrined in their constitutions: self-determination, the right to relatively good health, the right to control our lives. These things have eroded away in a terrible and malignant way.

    You can quite comfortably exist in the digital space and access everything you need via others if you want.

    I can, you can, and several others here can… But it is hard fucking work, and it’s a conscious choice we make against the current. Most ppl don’t care.

    When you don’t participate in normal activities like Instagram, LinkedIn, etc, you can see the eyerolls.

    It galls me very bitterly that I, who once championed Google and other online services, who lived online and used internet services and was at the forefront of technology use, am now forced to actually retreat from these parts of what is now called daily life just so I can live with myself.

    The bad thing has happened.

    We should not be the ones made to feel out of place for assuming that our data should be ours. We should be more outraged that companies can create apps to control our bed temps and just shut the service down without notice, or go bankrupt and sell the data to someone we don’t know or consent to, or create a new subscription model to heat our fucking car seats.

    If there is some ambiguity to you about whether the bad thing has happened, start asking yourself why Signal, the “beacon of privacy” had some services fail during the aws outage.