What do you mean by this? Flatpak definitely solved the Linux distro balkanization problem for application developers without trying to destroy the benefits of having different distros. Having a distinction between system software, utilities, and advanced end user applications does solve a problem.
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Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose.English2·4 months agoThis is one of those things where I think that purity might conflict with progress. I am currently using a VPS in a privacy-friendly country to host some stuff, and I am trying to move more of my needs there. I can easily try to host things at my house(and I do to a limited extent, I have a VPN I run through a VPS to connect my devices together to accomplish this), but dealing with the constraints of non-professional hardware management and a residential internet connection is frustrating. This frustration has in the past prevented me from reducing my use of services where I know they are farming my data, and would probably honor illegal and warrant-less data requests from government agencies. At least with IaaS, I give them money in exchange for a virtual machine, vs SaaS where I give them possibly money but more importantly permission to do whatever they want with my highly structured data(far easer to data mine a easily searchable database of PII vs a filesystem of unknown structure).
Even outside of tech, I have often found that my sense of purity gets in the way of actually making progress towards my values. Use the VPS if it will get you to stop using worse things.
This might actually reverse firefox’s decline in userbase at least in the business world. Any shop that already has multi-OS management could probably insta-switch to firefox, and i’m sure that MS locked-in places could too given enough of a push by IT.
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood ForEnglish5·2 years agoHot take: the narrative that politicians do not understand technology due to their age is giving them too much credit. They have entire offices full of staffers whose entire job is to explain these things to them in ways they understand, as I am sure they have for some of the more important things. They just don’t care because their purpose is to serve corporations, not the public.
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood ForEnglish8·2 years agoSee this kind of shit is why I pirate, not because I can’t afford to pay $10 a month. When the $10 for a lot of content becomes $10 per month per piece of media you like, and you can’t watch it on your platform of choice, and you can’t watch it on a flight without paying more or not at all, this makes the $5 per month I pay for a VPN sound like a far better service.
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood ForEnglish1·2 years agoWhy is it rooted in Nazi propaganda?
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Moscow targeted again as Kyiv steps up drone attacks inside Russia33·2 years agoMate I don’t think most russian people are reading an obscure, western primarily english speaking social media site, and the ones that are are probably more likely to be against the war.
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Car companies like Honda, BMW, and Hyundai are banding together to build an EV-charging network bigger than Tesla's Supercharger empireEnglish1·2 years agoA lot of transit can just be electrified with overhead wires
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto Ask Electronics@discuss.tchncs.de•Electronics for toddlers?English1·2 years agoI loved electronic snap circuits when I was 5-8 or so, so that’s definitely a good one if they still make them
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeksEnglish42·2 years agoI am not talking about individual choices but rather the social factors influencing those choices, please read a history book
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeksEnglish71·2 years agoBut their countries are only poor because of the imperialism of rich countries for centuries. You’re saying they should be grateful for rich economies helping them develop, when those rich economies are the reason they are poorer to begin with.
Mayoman68@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Hollywood Shuts Down After 160,000 Actors Walk Off the SetEnglish3·2 years agoNot sure if this is directly applicable but there’s the concept of dual power, where you can organize a bottom up power structure that takes some power from the regular government without needing to either submit to it or outright overthrow it. With that said it has only ever been successful in cases where the government is incredibly unstable to begin with.
There’s plenty of pieces of shit before and after PewDiePie that have contributed to the popularity(or even existence) of Linux, just because they might be morally questionable doesn’t negate their potential usefulness to a good cause.