yeah that is definitely the core of the problem

I have it installed on a few of my machines but don’t really find it that useful. But then again that’s specific to my needs and usecases.

Potentially unpopular opinion: a bunch of rust replacements for the common terminal utilities: eza, bat, dust, fd, helix. Also fish and nushell, yt-dlp, and some of my favorite programming languages.

elementary os in 2016. I still use eos on my desktop machine, mainly because it’s kinda ubuntu but not quite. Running Fedora on one of my laptops, the rest are running macos

insane

I used this a while back, it was pretty straightforward https://github.com/nathanlesage/local-chat

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I am also considering switching from an iPhone to a fairphone (or potentially something else privacy-friendly). So far I’ve heard that banking apps might be a problem. Also digital identification software feels like something that might be restricted on an alternative OS or a more open device. Does unlocking the bootloader mess with these things?

I would imagine streaming services that allow downloads might be restrictive about what they run on. Many of them do allow downlods, I know Spotify, Netflix, and most audiobook apps do at least. But I really have no idea, and would be really happy to hear from somebody with experience.

CEOs != everyone

So what’s your alternative hypothesis?

It’s not just one national solution - such solutions exist in many EU countries already and are bound to pop up in the rest of them.

Except it’s not nothing that’s being replaced. Most EU countries have some kind of electronic identification already. And criticizing whatever is being built right now without acknowledging that is dumb and misleading.

Bad as in the already omnipresent, opaque corporate monopolies on this? That’s what we have in Sweden, anyway.

There is no way what we have now in sweden is better than this thing.

What an insane misrepresentation of the technology

Perfect is the enemy of good.

worst take of the week

Darcs does not require a central server, and works perfectly in offline mode.

Git can be used that way too. Am I missing something?

Organic maps has been a really good app in my experience 👍

There are solutions to this, eg. differential privacy or city level aggregation