RosalynKirk

Again, there is no trade-off. If you want to just plug your phone in and be tethered to a wall, you can still do that.

The NSA collects all kinds of information. That is an absolute pittance compared to the amount of data collected when it is required by law…

Like this is not that complicated.

Yes, it absolutely is, because the US government does not require companies by law to hand over any and all information they collect to them.

You can run https://owntracks.org/ but you need a server to run it on.

That’s incredibly naive.

It abso-fucking-lutely is.

Does this really need an explanation?

1. Non-replaceable batteries provide zero benefits.

2. Swappable batteries allow you to just carry extras instead of being tethered to a charger. I used to literally never plug my phone in. Just swap batteries one or twice a day.

3. It’s the first component to die in most phones, and people can’t be bothered or don’t realize you can have them replaced, so they just throw them in the garbage. That’s why they started doing it in the first place.

…is Discord trying to do federation? I’m confused.

Someone is in charge of Revolt, doesn’t matter if it’s a company or someone else. Someone is in charge of the servers. What’s stopping them from ultimately selling the company? Reddit didn’t start out as a corporation. Nor did WhatsApp, but after creating a trusted userbase they were sold off to Facebook to be exploited for data.

IT people love to talk about how “easy” it is to create and run your own server, but this is simply not true and they just lack awareness.

I’ve no idea what that means

then you can stop driving up prices for people who actually need one.

Yeah that’s not really how that works LOL. I’m all for people not driving trucks, but if they stopped, that would make them MORE expensive. It’s simple economies of scale. The more they make, the less each individual unit costs.

You could buy a delivery van for considerably less money and it is significantly more practical.

So the truck made of cold-rolled steel with 240V inverter is not made for “people who do real work”?

What’s to stop Revolt from becoming the next Discord?

Edit: I just logged into my account to see that Revolt had removed a “server” for breaking foreign (unjust) laws. That seems to go against everything the fediverse stands for.

Not sure, sorry

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Unfortunately these companies have caught on to the fake phone number workaround and don’t allow VoIP numbers anymore. Fucking shame on them. There are dozens of other ways to verify legitimate users that don’t require giving out personal information for no reason.

And different usernames/emails also. (Apple relay, Firefox Relay, SimpleLogin, etc.)

But DON’T store your 2FA tokens in your password manager. I don’t understand why even the most reputable password managers allow this. If your 2FA is stored inside your password manager, you only have 1FA.

Weird, every distro I’ve tried either has no management, or doesn’t work. Just spins around loading. “Uninstalling” packages does nothing but remove them from the package manager.

you have to have a lot of linux/programming knowledge to do even the simplest things like installing/updating your software

So, pretty much like any other distro

Well it did because everyone on old Reddit already knew how to use it LOL