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Or so we hope, anyway.

Sex and porn are very different things. A lot of young men enter into sex imitating porn, and the results tend to be terrible.

In reality good sex is more about communication and trust than about being able to pull of crazy stunts. And once you have a good connection with someone exploring stuff is part of the fun, not something you’d like to outsource to a professional.

Of course sexologists can play an important role and people can take inspiration from wherrver, but it is really about something completely different. Porn does a lot of harm in general.

They’re keeping a low profile on their surveillance technology while successfully marketing themselves as a privacy alternative in consumer tech. Its pretty fascinating to watch. I wouldn’t blame anyone for missing it.

It’s also worth reading up on Aviglon, a subsidiary of Motorola specializing in surveillance technology.

Edit: @plyth@feddit.org pointed out that Motorola is in fact split into two separate companies. The phone company is effectively Lenovo, so Chinese, and not related to the American surveillance technology branch.

Not sure I’d trust Lenovo/Motorola Mobility either, but that’s a different story.

In June 2026, Motorola bricked its whole line of routers without any explanation, leaving their customers with broken hardware.

The main thing you’re supporting is Motorola, the second biggest provider of surveillance technology in the US after Flock. Deflock lists 5% of the cameras as Motorola, but the share is increasing as backlash against Flock is growing and Flock cameras are replaced with more low key competitors.

404media has reported on how Motorola cameras are used by ice.

“Gotta support the cause” is one hell of a dangerous sentiment under capitalism.

Here we very much disagree in our understanding of American history, but that’s another debate. :)

I care more about privacy and security than I do about throwing a few bucks at Google’s hardware division.

And I’m more worried about surveillance capitalism, the rise of fascism, attacks on software freedom, the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, and modern day slavery than I am about extremely targeted local security threats. But I also respect that others have different threat models. Some journalists and community organizers in [aspiring] dictatorships need higher security standards than I do, and they are only able to meet these standards because enthusiasts choose to make it a priority.

I live in Europe, and I don’t find it very difficult to avoid overly evil shit. I wouldn’t travel to the US, and if I did I wouldn’t want to bring any personal electronics with me.

And yet they have the entire industry in the palm of their hand.

For me it’s a no-brainer. I don’t buy products from Google, Amazon, Musk, Zuckerberg, or anyone else who obviously want to do me harm. Any path towards a better world sold to me by the people who are busy destroying the current one will be treated with immense scepticism.

I don’t see much point arguing further why I wouldn’t buy my privacy respecting hardware from Google or de facto Flock. We probably have different priorities.

I use a degoogled Fairphone. No money going to Google when I bought it, no data going to Google while I use it. You can also buy Fairphones new without Google Android.

more harmful than even throwing a couple bucks back at Google directly for hardware that will probably end up costing them more money than it makes them when you remove all their spyware.

This seems delusional. Even if they don’t run on huge profits from selling their devices you end up supporting their market dominance.

While there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism yadda yadda there’s still degrees of bad. I would not buy from a company who is actively building the infrastructure of the fascist surveillance state. By Google phone here I meant a Google brand phone, not a phone that comes with Google Android. Buying a Google Pixel second hand is obviously better than buying anything new.

Basically I think it’s worth trying to avoid buying things from people who want to do you harm, and when compromises have to be made it’s still worth settling for less evil. Motorola and Google are not that.

Motorola is also involved in the surveillance industry, both with their own direct competitors to Flock cameras and as the owners of a company named Avigilon. 404media has reported on how both contibuted to surveillance in Alabama.

I wouldn’t buy a Google phone in pursuit of privacy, and I wouldn’t buy a Motorola one either. Sending money that direction defeats the purpose.

They literally want to have surveillance cameras sticking out of our fucking ears and have us pay for it. And no doubt a bunch of idiots cannot wait to comply.

As other people in this thread points out, WSL is not ideal but it really saves the ass of anyone forced to use Windows at work.

I have a thinkpad handed to me from work with windows on it and all the usual restrictions. I tried for a while to use it by constantly running a virtual machine with Linux, but Windows is not a stable enough environment to host that. So in the end I just bought myself a framework laptop because nobody actually controls that I use the laptop provided by work.

Not everyone is that lucky. Canonical found a way to make their life easier. I think that’s objectively great, no matter what you think about Canonical as a company.

WSL is not generally something people use because they are afraid of changing to Linux, they use it because they are not allowed by IT to change their OS.

adequately sexually charged and disconcerting for what I would expect from them

Sadly this seems to apply in the worst possible way to Till Lindemann on a private level as well. 🤮

I have a FP5 and a similar problem to you. My FP3 before it died on me so it’s not much help.

I’m low key planning to find a second hand FP3 and use it to experiment with Linux until I find there are no big problems with using it as a daily driver. In practice I don’t really have enough time to put into it so I’ll probably keep on using /e/ for the forseeable future.

I got myself a physical code chip because MitID doesn’t work with /e/. The code chip works great.

The app is probably convenient, but I am also very happy not to depend on my phone to sign in to everything.

Dumping of trash is not really related to the right to roam, people just dump off the side of the road independently of whether they have the right to walk around in the area. People hiking and making use of the right to roam are generally very respectful.

The right to roam works great in relatively populated areas such as the forests immediately outside of Oslo.

In general it seems to me Firefox codebase is too big for any of the current forks to really be independent alternatives. It’s all just my opinion and personal experience though. Librewolf has different priorities to me to the point where I found that usability suffered, whereas Waterfox’ inclusion of Brave’s adnlock engine is highly unwelcome in my book - I want nothing to do with brave. Zen Browser seemed messy to me, though I can see how it’s great for others.

It seems to me Chromium, WebKit and Servo are better at separating the engine from the browser, making it possible for smaller actors to make their own browsers without forking the engine. A Firefox fork seems to me to just become a very big thing very fast, and one that requires a large dedicated team to be done right. I know other people enjoy the forks, they just never feel quite right to me.

In short, if Mozilla has turned evil and does shitty things to Gecko as a result, I don’t trust that the current forks of Firefox can really provide a real alternative as they depend on upstream development of Firefox.

Why did you build it from source? They frequently update it with servo shell here, and I got it running well on both Android and desktop Linux.

Enabling experimental features is important. While it’s still not ready it is already much better than when I first tried it a few months ago. :)

My unwillingness to use Chromium borders on the extreme, but this is the final straw for me. Vivaldi seems more aligned with my values than any other major player at this point, and the Firefox forks don’t sit quite right with me.

I can’t wait for Servo to be ready.