My message to Telegram CEO: Open source your shit and we’ll talk then about freedom and whatever marketing campaing you are on right now. Bye.

Okay, see you when inevitably all the Android forks keep working fine with sideloading allowed. 😘

What the hell are you talking about? Android is OPEN SOURCE. Degoogled phones will simply modify the codebase to avoid Google limits and bloat, like they are doing literally today? LineageOS, GrapheneOS, /e/OS…

I said degoogled phones, not degoogled apps.

Degoogled phones, there are plenty.

In any case, you can probably prolong the usage of your current phone for a few extra years without issue. So don’t panic yet.

Probably, I was going by memory and these filenames are tricky 😅

I had the same issue, breaking the update, and the solution was something along the lines of:

1. Edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
2. Change MODULES=most to MODULES=dep
3. Update initramfs:

   sudo update-initramfs -u
   

Although I think the cleanest way is to do it with an override config file in initramfs.conf.d, but do a bit of research on this.

I guess that by not including all modules, there is a risk the program forgets one of the modules you needed, but so far it works for me, and images are now a lot lighter.

Modern dishwashers do this. This is done to save energy. In the old days, dishwashers just heated stuff really hot to force evaporation of surface water.

Modern dishwashers can do this too, but there is an option to just open the door and let them dry naturally. This is a longer process, but if you do like me and program it at midnight… Then it has plenty of time to dry up fine.

I’m more of a “let’s make the road narrower, put more trees” kind of guy myself. If you want people to not go fast, then don’t make it look like an airport track. Urban area? Use rising crossings. And more trees. And narrower roads (by adding a cycling path).

Fuck cars, not people, or something like that.

It’s a strategy to give all Samsung products a distinct UI that has common elements across all the different things they make.

It’s all about having “a look” and making it slightly harder to pick a different option. Apple strategy.

It’s a LibreOffice feature, it works everywhere. Dark interface is one setting and dark document with bright letters is another. Might need to restart LibreOffice for the theme to be applied correctly.

Wait what? LibreOffice has a perfectly fine dark mode. You probably configured it incorrectly.

There is an ADB app that I use very often on Android TV and Google TV to uninstall bloatware (can’t remember the name)… So, it’s possible. You’d have to enable the developer options first and all that… But that’s always the first step of buying an Android phone 😅, at least for me.

Huge warning about XMPP:

If you encrypt with OMEMO (which seems to be the only accepted encryption nowadays), forget about being able to sync your messages to a new client. Forget about being able to try another client. That is, unless you want to lose all of your message history.

When I found this out while installing another distro… It made me so angry I literally stopped using it. I recommend Delta Chat, Matrix and Signal nowadays.

Is there a way one could load this up as a Nextcloud app, or something?

Every GNOME install tutorial:

please install this 3rd party application to install even more 3rd party extensions, otherwise your default experience will be shit.

Meanwhile KDE:

here you go, everything you need is here. Want more? Want less? Just touch me and find out, I can make your dreams come true, baby.

Come on, Zuckerberg, do what you said you’d do. Leave the EU. COME ON!! DO IT!!!

Also, Apple, you said you also wanted to leave because of the EU, right? DO IT!!!

Why are you still here?? Oh, turns out you can still make a fucking ton of money, huh? Also, if you left the EU, it would show the world WE DON’T NEED YOU. YOU SERVE NO PURPOSE, BUT TO MANIPULATE AND EXTORT FOR PROFIT.

Gmail is the first app that anyone should uninstall with Universal Android Debloater Next Generation and then one should install Thunderbird and live happy.

All patents are stupid. Seriously, I’ve written one, although of course only the boss gets credit for the property. It’s a disgusting process where you try to destroy any chance of innovation in the name of money.

Well, Signal can do it. That’s where the argument ends. If Signal can do it, XMPP should too. But it doesn’t.

That’s a terrible UX. If you have a protocol independent from clients, at least the chat database backup should be standardized. It’s not.

That means you’ll forever get stuck to one client. This is absolutely terrible for any organization.