Jerkface (any/all)

People who resort to name-calling are poo-poo heads.

It’s not like RAM has never been this expensive before. It’s still at a historically low price.

Hell, no. If there were “true competition,” Apple would sell out and move to a new industry entirely.

I moved from FreeBSD to Linux, for GPU rendering in Blender. If it wasn’t for GPU drivers, I’d still be on FreeBSD.

Apparently I was unclear by what I meant by “commercial porn”, which was: porn that you pay for. If you want to purchase commercial porn, you need a credit card. To use a credit card, you must reveal the verified identity associated with it. To answer your initial question, my point was to draw your attention to the many interactions you already accept that are strongly associated with your legal identity. Personally, I would rather not give up my legal identity just to buy groceries from my local corrupt corporate grocery store, and I find that a LOT more invasive than doing so for porn.

100% of commercial porn sites have always required you to identify yourself.

I will not be responding to comments.

Then fuck off. Like, actually. We’re not here for you to use to meet your emotional needs and not actually contribute.

There was a “we” that produced the first public licenses – amateur and enthusiast software developers, who previously were simply publishing things to the “public domain”. And “we” had clear goals in doing so, which we often wrote directly into our ad hoc self-written licenses. They weren’t handed down by God, there is a mortal history, and living people here were part of it.

I agree that the GPL should be viewed as a cultural artifact, not a legal one. It’s just the spirit of shareware, but without money involved.

In context of the many failures, I don’t think this establishes anything.

The original intention of public licenses was never to prevent code from spreading in any circumstance. Rather, that’s the “innovation” of copy-left. We just wanted a way to share our code without putting the people who used it into legal hot water. We didn’t want to control or manipulate people, using our code to extort a particular behavior out of them. We just wanted to share our code. I think copy-left makes sense in certain situations but I don’t think it should be the default option of a person wanting to contribute to culture.

like the GPL successfully enforces

I’m not aware of the GPL being legally tested to where you can claim that; there are a lot of open questions, and it has failed to protect works from AI companies, for example.

You’re taking an incredibly slanted position. There is a whole world of vibrant, viable, meaningful FOSS outside copyleft licenses. Even when one philosophically and politically prefers copyleft licenses, sometimes there are cases where the humanitarian or practical argument favours permissive licensing. But there are many who simply don’t share your interpretation of the philosophy and politics.

For the last two years, I’ve been running my own mail server, ready to cut over the moment google wants to fuck around again. I’m happy NOT depending on my own mail server as long as possible, but it’s clear the free lunch is going to end one day. I’ve started backing my way out of Android and I’m surely not going to be buying another iOS or Android phone.

What I really want is an Atari Portfolio or a Blackberry

Oh, I didn’t know what that was. Thanks.

Yes, the Star Lite is still probably too big for my ideal use cases, where I’m really just looking for a libre pocket-sized device.

I notice that while they give stats on their processor and most other components, they don’t seem to say anything at all about the GPU

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! That page made it look like an Android device but when you go to configure one, it’s Ubuntu.

Android was until recently an acceptable choice, while iOS has never been acceptable, no matter how “good” they make them. They are poisoned. Apple in general has always been extremely consumer-hostile and they are not trustworthy for the kind of relationship that they abusively force on their users.

My next tablet is going to be an x64 or ARM device that runs straight linux. Android is dead now that they are closing the software ecosystem.