Ah, the Torment Nexus is coming along nicely I see.

Wait you can forward X through Termux? TIL.

I agree that alternative app stores are definitely a boon and I can’t wait for the EU to nail Apple to the wall over dragging their feet on that. Competition is good and that 30% fee monopoly is bullshit.

There are iOS terminal clients (I like Termius). The ROM thing, yeah… I installed /e/OS on my Fairphone 4 just for the privacy aspect, but functionally it’s not better or worse than what came in the box. There might be reasons to do it but utility-wise I don’t very well see the point in this day and age.

I hadn’t thought of the developer license requirement to run your own software, I personally don’t do that but I can see it being a deal breaker. Thanks for your thoughts. :)

This is a common argument and it always makes me wonder what people mean by it. No ill intent from my end here, I use and like Apple as well as FOSS, but I can’t think of anything I can do on Android that I can’t on iOS. I admit I’m a very basic user though, I prefer to do heavy lifting on a laptop.

I am genuinely curious. Do you have some examples?

…For now.

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Except for the larger companies you still need a bunch of trained experts in house to manage everything.

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Throttle growth? But then how will we create believable bullshit generators? We have to stick an AI label on useless crap to sell damnit!

Yeah that’s my point. The elite assholes that run this world happen to be white, heterosexual men with Western sensibilities.

I also have those characteristics but that does not give me power or invalidate my problems.

This is needlessly divisive. Just because men share characteristics with a subset of people who opress and live life in easy mode does not mean they can’t be disenfranchised.

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The minimum requirements are there for them to set a lower limit on what they’re willing to support.

I agree and they’re free to do whatever they want. I get to have an opinion on their actions though.

What I take issue with is they are enforcing minimum specs because they’re choosing to put a bunch of stuff in the operating system that won’t run (well) below those specs. In other words they are choosing the job that the operating system has to do (GenAI in this case) and I think that is up to the user, not the OS vendor.

If the GenAI stuff they want to build in were optional then you could choose to purchase a cheaper computer or upgrade your existing hardware to a current OS. By going this route Microsoft is artificially inflating hardware requirements.

Anythjng that can’t do the job is literally 8+ years old.

So what? How about Microsoft lets me define what ‘the job’ is and I will decide for myself whether my machine is up to it? In my opinion the job of an operating system is to expose computing resources to whatever the user wants to do and then get the fuck out of the way.

Am I reading correctly that ARM is required?

If you don’t care about 3.5mm a FairPhone comes pretty close to that description.

Yeah that’s true, and I agree trying to regulate enshittification out of existence will probably have some heavy handed implications. However I do think it’s worth rethinking how network effects as extreme as Discord implements them relate to monopoly.

No they won’t. The whole point of a platform like Discord is to bind its users to it. At first because the platform itself offers good value, and second because of network effects. Once you’re good and hogtied the bullshit barrage begins.

It’s the default enshittification playbook.