I tried Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and AAAAXY, but they had file permissions problems. But Lona is great

Bitcoin is often used to buy gender affirming hormones from online clinics in areas where it’s illegal

Anyone knows this person?

I personally don’t see the benefit over regular Mint since it removes snaps anyways. And the newer software from Ubuntu is nice

I don’t think the majority of Vivaldi’s target audience wants AI tbh

I remember a few years ago I activated and used Office 2008 from an old CD. What does it even mean that old versions are getting killed? That you can’t use them anymore?

“Bold”? They just said they won’t implement a feature their target audience doesn’t want. What’s next? “Walmart makes a bold claim: no flamethrowers in the veggie aisle”

Your computer has dozens of computers in it!

You may have some luck with ADB

Then “reinstall without Google” isn’t a solution you can suggest universally to everyone even if you don’t know their phone model

No I was referring to the line about users needing google play services

For the casual user, they Just Work™. The famous ones like Stean, at least (I tried it sometime ago, it’s better than the flatpak version nowadays). If you never change your cursor, never check out your partitions, etc. snap’s problems aren’t as visible

This is why I love flatpak and sandboxing in general

Can you do that even if the bootloader is locked (as it is on many phones nowadays)?

Android is open source (and also Linux), so there are many custom OSs that aren’t “fancy linux”, but just Android without Google apps. See: LineageOS, GrapheneOS, e/OS. You might be able to install one of them on your phone if it’s compatible!

I don’t know, I’m not hopeful.

Stallman played a BIG role in the insurgence of Linux (and FOSS in general), but he famously disregards smartphones as he thinks people should just not use them.

Plus, phones are built different: many have a locked bootloader, and there is no standard like BIOS/UEFI, meaning you must compile a slightly different OS for each model.

What I’m saying is the mobile ecosystem is built in a way that makes it very difficult for a serious AOSP ecosystem to build up, let alone a different kind of Linux

With MicroG you barely feel the difference these days

Doesn’t MicroG (foss reimplementation of Play Services) fix that?

Installing F-Droid (or anything outside of “official” stores) already gets you a bunch of scary warnings that non-techy users would perceive as “omg malware!!” and withdraw from. I’m confident that the Venn diagram between F-Droid users and people who would be willing to use ADB to keep it is a circle. The real problem is that this cuts off anyone without a computer

Pardon, I remembered it so from a graph I saw a few months ago. Perhaps I misremembered, or perhaps things changed since then