Democratisation of powerful tools won’t work because it’s easier to use for destruction than for the opposite. Every psychopath designing superbugs and inventing future weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86k8N4YsA7c

More like; it’s cheap when you have no tolerance and no daily habit. You start paying if you let your consumption grow 50-fold.

My new phone charges at 5W from my old phone’s 20W charger without the suddenly required “PD”.

But they do: https://murena.com/america

How about Murena Fairphone/Shiftphone with non-rooted /e/OS and locked bootloader?

The hypersane smart get called crazy by conformists.

It may be U.S. plutocrat strategy to weaken political enemies by killing their companies.

Consider Microsoft destroying Nokia and their Linux phones to benefit fellow American companies Apple and Google.

Consider the Destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.

There are many custom ROMs based on AOSP: GrapheneOS (for security against hacking and confiscation), LineageOS and its descendants /e/OS, iodéOS, and crDroid, etc. CalyxOS is not doing well right now, but it should be back in a few months.

Make sure you can relock the bootloader after installing to protect against attacks through the USB connector.

Murena ships /e/OS preinstalled on the European Fairphone and Shiftphone. Iodé similarly.

Then there’s Volla phone which can have Linux (Ubuntu Touch) and and VollaOS (AOSP-based) on the same phone. There are other Linux phones, but nobody recommends them for normal consumers.

Stop exaggerating. The OpenAI speech-to-text service is a paid extra you don’t accidentally switch on, and telemetry is off by default and hidden in the developer options menu.

(But yeah, OpenAI was a disgusting choice. The default should have been local, even if it’s worse.)

Not CalyxOS right now.
https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/

I went with /e/OS, and it works well, even bank apps.

I believe capitalism is the problem, and should be replaced by a retroactively-estimating value-production reward-system. Only the economy is overhauled, not society.

Capitalism bastardised the internet to be like this. There was a communal web in the making.

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Consider the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Quora’s enshittification has that vibe too.

Twitter.

For the minority of situations he thinks the blinker is actually needed.

My friend is trying to save the bulb because it’s not been designed to be replaced, you have to disassemble a corner of the car (Opel Corsa).

Ghosts of Mars by John Carpenter

Set on a colonized Mars in the 22nd century, the film follows a squad of police officers and a convicted criminal who fight against the residents of a mining colony who have been possessed by the ghosts of the planet’s original inhabitants.

Ghosts of Mars received mostly negative reviews and was a box office bomb, earning $14 million against a $28 million production budget.

Ghosts of Mars has received a cult following since its release, with critics praising the action sequences, soundtrack and blending of genres.

Microsoft - A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm

Microsoft will keep stifling competition “until the regulators have their foot on their neck,” argues Cal Berkeley professor

Most cameras have native 4:3 aspect ratio. You may want to check the settings and crop later if needed.

To my knowledge, Samsung started this by calling “local display shaped” aspect ratio as “full”. To find the native one without reading the specs, hold the camera still and see which setting includes the most view.