eu citizens initiatives are official tools of the public to help draft new laws.

ok, just checking

oh fun, an actual “taxation is theft” person. i’m assuming you don’t drive?

i do want the icons, yeah.

vpn is on the right, yeah. but this is with just one sim:

with two i get another signal strength and wifi calling symbol. it’s already collapsing them when not on the quick setting screen, which is very frustrating.

i mean the bezels together are less than 1cm. and the notch takes space from notifications, with two sim cards and a vpn active that shit overflows instantly anyway.

i think they mean “under” as in “behind”.

agree, i just wish they kept a model like the Z* Compact around.

it’s always been there. the most influential voices in the open source software world have always been overtly political. heck, the entire movement is inherently political. just read any of stallmans or raymond’s rants from the 90s.

and while stallman is mostly just creepy because he’s not house trained, raymond is genuinely disturbing.

YES! i would love it if arcan/durden/lash-cat9 got some mainstream traction.

i think the effort has already been made, unless i’m misunderstanding what cachyos is

aw man, this is the first i’m hearing about discontinuation. apparently it’s because people want larger phones?!

i have a 5 IV and it is by far the largest phone i’ve ever owned… i wish it was like an inch smaller. but it was the only model i could find that doesn’t have a non-rectangular screen. these bloody camera cutouts are everywhere and i never even use the front camera.

isn’t this like saying some people are allergic to asbestos?

mate, i’m swedish. you don’t have to convince me that it’s tasty!

was gonna say, this seems like the best outcome for this particular trial. there was potential for fair use to be compromised, and for piracy to be legal if you’re a large corporation. instead, they upheld that you can do what you want with things you have paid for.

middle name, sorry

well then you have your summer schedule all worked out!

do you also do the varieties that the swedes do? that’s my favourite part, getting a whole bunch of differently spiced ones. probably need to try the dutch version.

why would it be cooked? it’s pickled!

i was on mobile so i was keeping it terse. let’s see if i can expand a bit now that i’m at a keyboard.

the right to repair movement is fighting companies that deliberately make it harder to fix things, so that customers will have to use company services to repair their stuff, or buy new stuff. john deere and apple are two big players here, with cryptographical signatures built into parts that void the warranty if they don’t match. this is actively adversarial behavior and should plainly be illegal. skg, on the other hand, is fighting companies that just leave their stuff to rot. they’re just neglecting their product once there is no profit in it, which you can’t really say about e.g. john deere; they are obligated by law to provide parts for the things they sell for x amount of years after they no longer sell the product itself.

so, the two are in different legal frameworks: right to repair is trying to stop capture of the spare parts market, while skg is fighting for there to even be a spare parts market. and that’s where my previous point comes in: while machines are inherently understood to be repairable (because they used to be) and the fact that companies are trying to clamp down on that is plainly obvious, software has never been generally understood to be changeable by the end user. it has always been an enthusiast/professional-only thing.

so, equating the two may harm either
a) rtr, because of the assumption that only people with the correct credentials should have access to repair parts,
b) skg, because of the assumption that they want companies to provide support for things for up to several years like in the parts market, or
c) both, because of the assumption that they want the same thing, which, if implemented, would make neither side happy.

i’m not 100% sure i’m making sense here, because on some level i do think they share similarities. of course they do. but how do you present that to a group of amateurs (legislators) in a coherent way? i don’t think you can without harming either cause.