Basically take the Luke Smith Pill. Agree 100%, the tools the Snopyta guys have made are great alternatives for those who want to add a mediating layer between themselves and the big internet companies. The greater 'Linuxshpere' has become more stable, easier to use, to the point where maybe 20% of the population have the *potential* to …
Basically take the Luke Smith Pill. Agree 100%, the tools the Snopyta guys have made are great alternatives for those who want to add a mediating layer between themselves and the big internet companies. The greater 'Linuxshpere' has become more stable, easier to use, to the point where maybe 20% of the population have the *potential* to run substantially user-respecting, moderately customized systems. The problem is the entrenched institutionalization of the computer using population.
I remember back in '95, we'd want to play DOOM on a suburban desktop computer, and often had to get an older sibling or parent to load it for us because the damn DOS console was too hard for a normal IQ child to use. Point: 25 years ago, fairly normal adults could handle DOS and buggy, slow Windows 3.1/95/98. Now you have software professionals, who are systems admins or coders by day, still relying on these locked down, unauditable, walled gardens for their phones and computers, slaves to corporate "app" stores. I don't think we're going to break that habit in 95+% of people. Is there space for Linux phones? Will the system *allow* Linux phones?
Basically take the Luke Smith Pill. Agree 100%, the tools the Snopyta guys have made are great alternatives for those who want to add a mediating layer between themselves and the big internet companies. The greater 'Linuxshpere' has become more stable, easier to use, to the point where maybe 20% of the population have the *potential* to run substantially user-respecting, moderately customized systems. The problem is the entrenched institutionalization of the computer using population.
I remember back in '95, we'd want to play DOOM on a suburban desktop computer, and often had to get an older sibling or parent to load it for us because the damn DOS console was too hard for a normal IQ child to use. Point: 25 years ago, fairly normal adults could handle DOS and buggy, slow Windows 3.1/95/98. Now you have software professionals, who are systems admins or coders by day, still relying on these locked down, unauditable, walled gardens for their phones and computers, slaves to corporate "app" stores. I don't think we're going to break that habit in 95+% of people. Is there space for Linux phones? Will the system *allow* Linux phones?