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jabjoe

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  • I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026

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  • It's not just a tech issue. Funding tech dev is great, but there is a political problem.

    We need to vote for politicians who get the need for competition and will fight vendor lockin. Who will ensure things that are needed to do stuff isn't done only for the duopoly.

    We need to support groups fighting bad politicians and getting into media to inform normal people. Who make legal fights. EFF, OpenRghtGroup, etc.

  • Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform

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  • Electoral college isn't ideal, but the two party system is worse. It's just red vs blue. My team vs your team. It's false. Far better as in much of Europe, a sea of parties, coming and going, constantly compromising. That's a better reflection of real politics.

  • Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform

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  • Yep. Compounding it, the far right throw in trolling social media that there is no point voting. That those opposing the far right are just as bad in some way. That there is no less bad option to vote, so don't bother.

    Frankly, I blame those who didn't vote Harris or Clinton almost as those voted Trump. Hold your nose and vote less bad, AND push for a better system. The UK's FPTP is deeply broken, but it's dysfunction is nothing compared with the US's duopoly.

  • Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform

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  • It didn't work of the Democrats either. It should of because how awful Trump is and Kamala seamed good, but how good she would be wasn't the focus. But their system is even worse than ours.

  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • They did since it was online. It's closed and online, the OS "owner" are the only true admin. If it's closed and online, your "commands" are just "suggestions" compared to theirs.

  • Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform

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  • I don't disagree. I think FPTP is immoral and a liability. I'm disappointed in Labour to looking to address it despite their membership overwhelmingly supporting it. They hope to pay on "it is us, or Reform" which is party before country and could backfire and massively damage the country.

  • Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform

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  • What's great about those numbers is Con+Reform is soooo far behind Lab+Lib+Greens.

    The margin the Greens won by is so big that even if was more split with Labour, Reform still wouldn't have one. Which will horrify Labour as people won't fear vote splitting as much.

    It's one small bi-election, but I like what it says about the Overton window.

  • Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already

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  • To be clear, Microsoft ♥️ Money. Azure would be dead in the water if they didn't support Linux. Web development is Linux development, so their platform would be dead for web development if they didn't do WSL. They do only the Linux they have to.

  • Euro visions: Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

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  • Nextcloud?

  • GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple

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  • Which phone works completely on postmarketos? Looks like only librem5, which are expensive, especially for the spec.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • It's pretty rubbish. I was under pressure from a few angles to compromise more with Google. GrapheneOS is were I am. But I want to be on a prober Linux. But it's just not possible without competition law being enforced. It's political problem not technical.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • HSBC business. There is no fob. You have to get a code from their app to login online. That app refused to run on LineageOS with MicroG, regardless of the boxing and lying to it I tried. It does work under GrapheneOS with boxed Google services.

  • Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers

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  • Not quite. I believe they are just splitting CUPS up. The core is just going to be deal with driverless printers. Other code goes into other projects to become adaptors for old printers to appear as driverless printers that CUPS connects to.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • The fight was always going against these monopolies.

    In the UK with have OpenRightGroup to some extent the Greens. In the US EFF, FSF, SFC. In the EU ESFe, Pirate Party, Greens.

    There are many groups fighting the political cause. They have had victories over the years, but winning the odd battle doesn't win a war. They all need support.

    Until now, a lot of open source has tried to be nonpolitical, but that may be changing:

    https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/

  • Trump’s Betrayal of Allies Has Sparked Unprecedented ‘Buy European’ Trend

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  • 100% yes. Open source is not missing this:

    https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/

    Or the more technological political:

    https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/

    There is an opportunity here to wake people up to how shit so much of tech is and how to improve them. Before it was just nerds and economists who complained of the stifling of competition by the monopolies. Now it's geopolitical and more and more obvious to more and more people.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • Fair enough. Doesn't surprise me Telsa are more hot air and bluster then Waymo.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • You got a link for those numbers? Very damning if true. 40x the humans and still worse stats?

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • We need to support political groups fighting for us, not just think in terms of technology. In the UK it is OpenRightsGroup, maybe the Greens party, in Europe there is the Pirate Party, Greens, Free Software Foundation Europe, and more. We should be trying to get politicians into this.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • I'm basically am doing exactly this. But I'm only on GrapheneOS as I had to compromise on some closed apps that refused to run on LineageOS. GrapheneOS means I can compromise on Google a bit without being completely compromised by Google. The market and geopolitical problem remains.