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tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’ve been looking for buds with replaceable batteries ever since my first pair degraded. Good to see FairPhone offering one that does it this time!

tabular, 2 months ago

There have wireless headphones that you can use a USB-C wire with, but that’s not an earbud.

tabular, 2 months ago

A follow-up video “Why I was wrong about fairphone” by Louis Rossmann: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAogtqyN22M

Still critical of lack of audio jack but praises FairPhone for including list of all components and board view of where each part is located and a complete schematic. In comparison to other phones manufacturers that’s night and day of repair-ability.

tabular, 2 months ago

They also sell headphone to USB cable. I’m not saying the lack of a headphone jack is good but if their goal was really to sell wireless earbuds then selling a USB to headphone cable was a bad move, no?

tabular, 2 months ago

In what way are they not completly free? Cuz you gotta keep the same license?

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Which are more free depends how you look at it. If we limit the scope to just us then having no restrictions is more free than a copyleft licenses that have any restrictions. If we also consider our users then being able to do what we want includes not giving the same level of freedom to our users, and the same applies to our user’s users. A restriction on us denying freedom ensures gives freedom to others.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’m of the opinion that a cookie on your desk takes more willpower to resist eating rather it being in a locked box in the kitchen. I consider even devs with good intentions to not have perfect resistance to temptation at all times, and so being legally compelled to not deny users software freedom via AGPL is a benefit to my users as it helps them resist any temptation 😇

tabular, 2 months ago

Will the replacement services be proprietary or open source/free software?

tabular, 2 months ago

When Valve makes a change to Steam that you disagree with your choice is to give up using Steam, and your purchased games, or just accept it and continue. Steam is proprietary software: it gives unjust power over user’s computing. Even good people are not immune to the temptation to use power for themselves at the expense of others. While Valve have done a lot of good, indeed are the best, no one is perfect. I don’t understand why you think it has no potential to become a lot worse.

tabular, 2 months ago

That makes it okay then, proprietary software that we can’t really find out what it does 😑

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

*Publishers? Shareholders are the problem.*If any involved can make a change then we should do that. I can’t talk of publishers but I can speak dev.

If many of us refused towrite code unless it will be shared under an open source/free software license then publushers would have no choice but to let people self host. Sadly school doesn’t appear to teach programmers ethics of software, specifically flsoftware freedomn

tabular, 2 months ago

Where do they teach it?

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Software freedom is about being in control of your computing. We can’t verify what proprietary software from a foreign company is doing on a government computer.

Public money public code is about citizens getting back the code we paid for. When a proprietary company improves software to get paid then they keep that advantage to themselves. LibreOffice is a collaborative project, everyone gains from it being improved by our money.

These aught to be valid concerns as much as productivity: to the degree it affects people. It cannot be dissmssed as being idelogical.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I think we should aim for what is ideal and then take into consideration the constraints of what we can do. If it’s not plausible enough to go for what is ideal then aim to make that more likely while doing whatever is the next best thing. We risk being stuck on a peak of possible good if we refuse to go down to eventually go up higher.

I only use LibreOffice but don’t need it much. I can’t comment on how practical it is, or isn’t, for use in a government. If there’s another free software option then we aught to consider that. Else spend money to make it good enough for frequent and important use cases.

tabular, 2 months ago

All around this was well made. I hope they do more. My only crititism would be, unlessI misunderstood, it seems to me the story just stopped.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

“Innovation” just means ways to milk people these days .

tabular, 2 months ago

What rules?

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

How do you qualify the security of a closed source code when you can’t verify it?

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

There are some advantages but generally it’s better for everyone to keep their copyright to prevent a company being able to take over and then deny users the software freedoms intended by the original license.

tabular, 2 months ago

I think you’re right that the former license can’t be taken away from other instances.

Some projects chooses a license specifically to stop people taking code without sharing code back upon redistribution via copyleft (ShareAlike). Getting around that by changing the license defeats the purpose (projecting users software freedom).

tabular, 2 months ago

If friends decide they will use something else then I can avoid Discord. Till then, guess I’ll start using it on the web for the adblock.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

open source GPU, HDMI outputs

huh? Were older HDMI ports open source?

tabular, 2 months ago

It gives power over your users.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Sure, I was just speaking in general.

tabular, 2 months ago

Young people may disenfranchise themselves for other reasons but so does the system itself when you don’t want a main party. Voting 3rd party has the same affect as staying up late and sleeping in on the day.