most software is web based and OS-agnostic so there is no destruction and rebuilding happening, and for everything else, FOSS is literally free. How is it expensive to switch from X with a monthly cost to X that is free? Even if things breaks initially, the cost would equalize and long-term be considerably reduced.

There is no learning curve. Where have you been over the past 7 or 8 years?

It’s just funny how there are 3 ways you can vote on Trump. 1. Not voting. 2. Voting third party/optional. 3. Actually voting for him. But there is only one way you can not vote on him, and that’s voting Harris. The Democrats have really set this up to make it a boom or bust strategy, and the Republicans reap all the benefits.

There is some fearmongering in the news about the Tesla debacle. All around me I keep hearing people complaining about the Tesla situation as if unions are a bad thing. I’ve seen several “debates” from crocked asshats (i.e. “news sites” people genuinely believe have their best interest) bringing up, which is probably where their attitude comes from. Here’s two lightbulbs from “Almega”:

“Now exposed by LO vs Tesla, todays laws, rules, and regulations risks the will of employers to sign collective agreements and are thus a threat to the Swedish Model.”

and

“Tesla has proven that strike rights needs to be reformed and modernized or risk political intervention.”

These statements are so fucking backwards and braindead. Like, who’s dumb enough to interpret it the way it’s intended by the copy? Anyone who has even slightest understanding of the “swedish model”, knows that what’s happening right now is exactly how it was designed to happen when pompus martians think they alone has greater power than humanity. it’s not a threat to the model, it’s working by design! if employers don’t want to dela with the collective agreement (of the people), they do not belong on the swedish market.

The second statement is equally offensive, so we need political intervention to stop political intervention? Alrighty then. It’s just so confusing though, why do we need to reduce the rights of people to benefit business owners? Who do they think run this world, the wealthy elite aka. corporate business owners, or the people who are actually putting in their time, effort, sweat, blood and labour, to literally take care of everything and run this system we live in?

Honestly, if they don’t want to get assfucked by the people actually producing their wealth, they shouldn’t overstep. It’s not rocket science. But I suppose, particularly in the experience of Americans like Musk, the concept of suffering consequences to idiot actions seems foreign, and yet, he seems to be suffering consequence after consequence for his more recent choices, especially after one particular choice starting in 2022.

Regardless, Sweden is likewise becoming less and less like it used to be. Employers on average used to be just another employee (to themselves), but nowadays more and more employers start feeling like they’re part of some elite group who are better and more deserving than others, and this shit has been leaking out into our politics, and radicalizing a large segment of our population in ways that might eventually cause some very real damage worse than we saw during the industrialization and up until the 1920ies.

My grandparents and those of their generation were part of the force who started their lives with no rights, no wealth, no means, and they would have been appalled to see how far we have fallen over the last 20 years of political development in this country. One chip at a time. Nearly all the people who lived through the labour revolution are all gone now, and we’re regressing back to the standards they fought to create, our parents being the sole generation who grew up during a time of collective wealth and possibilities - and these asshats just keep saying “look at the numbers!” like their continued legacy benefits will somehow be passed along to the next generation while touting “what’s mine is mine!”.

Oh man, talk about bringing me back in time. My first card was a voodoo 2.

and they regret it because the people offering .ml sucks but it’s already too integrated with the platform to change.

the biggest reason for subscriptions is. 1. consumer laws don’t protect it. and 2. you can quit your job and don’t have to be actually productive and work for a living because your users will just keep on “buying” the product every month indefinitely. and finally 3. subscription basically gives you monopoly in any given area you host it; because the user will usually not look or even have the means to look for options or alternatives once they have already tied a percentage of their monthly income to a company for the software or service they provide - as wallets got spread thinner and thinner until they, now, are entirely swallowed by subscriptions.

the only people arguing in favor of subscriptions are those who don’t want to work for a living while still taking advantage of the capitalist system.

the entire saving grace of the fediverse is a lack of algos and curation of your own content. algorithms have basically broken social media and the way we interact with the web. quality and substance is nowhere to be seen for the past few years and many of those who migratate to the fediverse do so specifically for the improved quality of content - it’s the whole selling point.

gnome currently because nearly everything i use is designed for gnome and looks mismatched on other DEs. but the gnome workflow largely feels like a prison.

hold up, then what is the purpose of Copyright in the first place? Are they arguing copyright no longer serves its original function? To protect the authors work? When was this change made to the law?

ah, it’s possible BankID has a different authentication process in norway. while it’s privately owned, they probably have actual requirements and guidelines to follow in norway as opposed to sweden.

they run verification through google/apple services. so we scandinacians can’t use a degoogled/microg android phones at all. at one point (long long ago) they used to run their own which made it available on any platform, but that service mysteriously died the day ubuntu phone launched. very coincidental.

it’s a privacy nightmare as it relies on google and apple servers to authenticate verification. neither of which are private. it also makes it impossible for european alternative operative systems to enter the market - giving a foreign state, the US, full control over what we can and can’t do.

you can’t both expect profit and good maintenance. pick one, or the other. in all things. that’s why roads aren’t privatized. or the fire brigade. etc.

honestly, this is a great point in favor of arguing a switch to FF. if all the plugins that are now getting wiped from chrome move over to FF and tell users they are now availablr on FF, and users advertising just use X plugin on FF to solve glaring issues with chrome, then there is no incentive to stick with chrome anymore.

or maybe this has been the thing all along and i’m just slow 😅

capitalists have paid harris to kick her out if she wins, so lina khan will be gone soon regardless of who wins.

facebook, google talk, etc. all relied on the XMPP protocol. you could add your facebook messenger friends to google talk or any of the open source clients like pidgin. it was the holy era of instant messaging. federated. solution. no bullshit lockdown to a specific system like in the days of ICQ, Skype, etc.

then both facebook and google talk locked down their XMPP server and i lost 80% of my friendlist on XMPP. and that was that. i had to get facebook. i had to get google mail. especially relevant when microsoft bought skype and it turned to shit.

guess what. today we’re split on even more clients than we used to be. need signal, whatsapp, facebook messenger, telegram, discord, band, matrix, threema, session, irc, slack, and steam chat installed on my fucking device. and all because meta and google pulled the rug to isolate their systems and force user conversion.

no, thanks. open source federation is the only solution to unshitification and that’s never going to happen as long as people do shit like leaving x for bluesky instead of mastodon etc. leaving facebook for band instead of literally any other fediverse platform (because facebook has devolved to ads and facebook groups - everything else is irrelevant or dead on there). etc etc.

the devil you know, …and all that.

i disagree. the only barrier of entry is when people are pushing the fediverse concept as a whole. for the vast majority of people; all they need to know is to go to mastodon.social and sign up, done. they’ll get the wider picture on their own terms and at their own pace if left alone.