You didn’t like to share much, do you?

If by “directions app” you mean navigation, there are several on F-Droid. I keep seeing lots of positive talk about Organic Maps lately if you need somewhere to start.

Yeah, I suppose that’s fair to an extent. The slow burn of Faux Snuz brainwashing and anger buildup definitely contributed as you mentioned, but it is possibly unusual in that the buildup period was so long (Republicans have been working from a basic plan since the mid 70s when some strategist of theirs came to the realization that abortion would be an extremely effective wedge issue) before it reached its peak without anything happening to break that spell.

I’m not really a history buff, so I don’t have a lot to compare to off the top of my head. My argument was based more upon what I know of human psychology - a subject of much more interest to me personally, but which doesn’t have nearly the same amount of documented historical details with which to compare.

Honestly, though, the only thing I think is different today is our level of knowledge and understanding. Data warehousing, statistical analysis, psychological profiling, etc., etc. are all new additions to the dynamic that I strongly suspect have made successful manipulations possible at such as massive scale.

People themselves are still the same as they’ve basically always been - some good, some not, some smart, etc. It’s just now we have the ability to give those in power much more certainly with regards to methods of achieving their goals. Since those who actually desire to be in positions of power are almost invariably the types who shouldn’t have it, the end result is sadly predictably ugly.

I tend to doubt it’s as different as you think. IMHO, the majority of people want good, but are clueless as to what exactly that looks like when it comes to more complex topics like managing the wide variety of people that make up a society. Understanding that usually requires a LOT more time and effort into reasoning things out than they’re willing/able to put in, anyway.

They therefore pick someone to trust who seems (read: cons them into believing) like they know “the truth” to do all their thinking for them. Those arrogant enough to portray themselves as such are almost always malignant personality types interested primarily in manipulating others to do their bidding in order to benefit themselves. They “know” everything, and either are exceedingly unlikely to admit to human failings such as not knowing something, or always have a ready excuse that puts blame upon their enemies for their failings.

They divide people up & pit them against one another to distract, ensure loyalty, and keep control.

Any of this sound familiar? It’s a pattern repeated among humans throughout history.

Evil always gets ahead because it’s willing to do anything to “win.” Good? Not so much. (Well actual good, anyway - not that fake shit that does things claiming their “Good Book” backs them up on it, for example.)

The only reason Good gets control every so often is because Evil is too focused on “winning” & ultimately inadvertently destroys its own foundations in order to do so. Once it figures out how to avoid that, we’re really screwed.

The closest example of that I can think of is China’s current leader. I’ll grant many will somewhat rightly claim he’s done a lot of good over there, but he’s definitely accomplished a fair bit of it through some significant evils.

Still too modern. Try NetBSD.

I’m gonna assume that’s a hacked copy, bc a 40yo copy-protected floppy disc still fully containing its original contents would be even more impressive.

I don’t see what any of that has to do with my issues regarding the new model. Yeah, I’m interested in their OS and the hardware switches for better privacy control, but I’m not hardcore enough that I’ll ignore my other hardware preferences in order to have them.

I’m just not anywhere near important enough a person to need more protection than I already achieve via the official privacy options combined with a VPN blocking most of the more obnoxious stuff. The additional privacy they’re offering is “nice to have” for me, not a “must have.”

That’s why you’re supposed to carry protection with you at all times.

26.52TB in NAND?!? Did i win the lottery?!?

Haven’t looked at it in ages, but last I knew the whole philosophy was to be as Windows-like as possible to make it easy for people to switch. I never went for it because they charge for more complete versions.

The only flaw is that it’s incomplete. It should say “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you if you were them.” This would require a level of empathy seemingly sorely lacking in much of society today, however.

I don’t need cutting edge, but removable battery and headphone jack were big selling points of the original that they’ve abruptly yanked in favor of this. I’d only learned of them recently, and was planning to buy the original. Now I may get a Fairphone instead.

Aww, c’mon! Show the bottom of the receipt with the total cost (in storage space)!

AFAIK Graphene is Pixel-only (and only those still currently supported by GOOG), and I’m given to understand eOS is insecure AF. Add in locked-down bootloaders having become so common, there needs to be a better answer.

There are session manager extensions that will keep a saved list for you to go back to. This is the one I use.

But it’s impossible to know which, and then there are those that won’t be dead yet. For anything I really think is valuable, I use an extension that saves the page to a self-contained HTML file with all the resources packed in.

Besides, we both know I’ll likely never get back to those links…

Noob. Those are positively amateur numbers. Come back when you’re at least a couple orders of magnitude higher than that.

Every so many months I’ll “Share all tabs” on my Android Firefox to a text editor with no file size limit (which can take a few minutes just for that), save the file, close all tabs to wipe the slate clean, and never open the file I saved again.

It’s like I’m prepping for the day I win the lottery, and suddenly have as much time for this stuff as I did when I was a kid. But even were that to happen, I’d still have more responsibilities taking up my time than kid me ever did - and I’d still be trying to keep up with new stuff at the same time. sigh

“Good” is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn’t changed much, but instead you’ve become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.