I buy pixel phones, because out of the sea of bullshit, it's at least capable of being rooted/flash to a new os.
The PinePhone sadly isn't ready.

Agree. With the extent of polarization we have there is very little that isn't political and it's depressing.

Nothing subtly though

I feel "tech" communities have always been more about smartphones and startups rather than actual tech.

Fleeing to a construction site, Gaddafi and his inner cohort hid inside drainage pipes while his bodyguards battled the rebels; in the conflict, Gaddafi suffered head injuries from a grenade blast while Jabr was killed. The Misrata militia took Gaddafi prisoner, causing serious injuries as they tried to apprehend him; the events were filmed on a mobile phone. A video appears to picture Gaddafi being poked or stabbed in the anus "with some kind of stick or knife" or possibly a bayonet. Pulled onto the front of a pick-up truck, he fell off as it drove away. His semi-naked body was then placed into an ambulance and taken to Misrata; upon arrival, he was found to be dead. Official NTC accounts claimed that Gaddafi was caught in a crossfire and died from bullet wounds. Other eye-witness accounts claimed that rebels had fatally shot Gaddafi in the stomach.

I've seen the video. Its Brutal. A perfect and fitting end for a guy like trump.

ish. but if there are shareholders, the CEO is replaceable. and principles aren't good for immediate profits.

Politics are about control. When fascists are in charge. Everything is politics

The engraving is irrelevant as the main glass piece will "accidentally" fall down and break, the 24k gold stand then would be put in storage where it will be "lost" and smelted down to a clean untraceable ingot

Linux phones will eventually get to a point that I can ditch the big two entirely. I hope. But yeah if I didn't need the apps for my job, I'd go back to a Nokia T9 in a heart beat. I was a live long before smartphones were, I don't need one.

Yep the fact that this goes automatically to hating on Apple instead of the rich tells you all you need to know

For most people Apple products are absolutely consumer friendly, what are you talking about? They’re amazingly simple to setup and go, the ecosystem actually works well, and they’re far more reliable than anything Microsoft could dream of putting out. They also don’t go obsolete within in a year, that’s total nonsense, and in fact they have generally had better support than their main competitors as far as I’ve seen. People I know have kept their Apple machines for a very long time without much issue. I myself had my first MacBook for ~11 years, from 2010 to 2021.

For people who to tinker with software there’s still a lot you can do on them but back in the Windows vs. Mac days some ill-informed people decided that because Apple products work well they must be hard to code on, despite the Unix based nature of them. Currently, many people I know in software are issued MacBooks and say they work very well while the Windows machine I got for something as simple as AutoCAD was constantly having issues.

Their consumer unfriendly tactics aren’t directly to connected to the capability of the machines. They 100% do some bad shit on that front, but it’s not enough to push most regular customers away. If you can’t figure out the difference between yourself and a regular customer then this isn’t a conversation you clearly have all the information for. Most of what you’re saying is just the usual parroted garbage that muddies the conversation and frankly makes it harder to deal with the companies actual failings because it just shows a grotesque inability to understand why people like their products.

I will be very clear: This overt move beyond the usual corpo nightmare has soured me a lot on their products, which sucks because they are objectively very good. I also don’t entirely know what to do about it as making a switch to Google products is just as bad a move. I’ve heard of a couple alternatives, we’ll see what the landscape will look like in a couple years when I need a phone and several years after that when a new laptop is required.

Trump is not a powerful wizard, all his power comes from people who give it to them. Those people have a choice, and this is it.

Mmmmm..... Is it politics, or ethics?

Can you be okay having ethics discussions in technology? If not, maybe the problem is less other people, and more you, not having any sort of spine.

I, too wish everything wasn't horrible, but think of it this way: technology is the stuff, made by the people, who make decisions and ideas. And so, it's important to know what the people are doing. Especially so for those of us without the privilege of benefit of being able to ignore politics.

I'm saying you're a privileged manipulator trying to quiet those trying to improve things, and I think that you should fix that, rather than complaining that people are talking about it in a passive aggressive, manipulate way.

Maybe you could make a community called "ethics blind technology"?

Or "unethical tech"?

Maybe even "aethical technology"

Yeah, like ... Imagine a shitty dystopian scifi with ultra corporations.

Now understand and accept that that's what real life is.

Tim Cuck

Not a "gift". It was a BRIBE !!

that makes him a fascist.