Well they can’t do everything, can they?

What the hell are you talking about? We have standards almost for everything now. It’s just ARM ecosystem messed up as it were on purpose.

Agreed. VM frontends are supposed to be powerful and feature-rich. Dumbing it down was one of the stupidest ideas, any such project could make.

The doctor isn’t the problem here. They’re simply trying to communicate in the most frictionless way possible. So do the billions of people. The real failure is our governments. They allow basic communication protocols to be privatized and monopolized rather than mandating open, federated standards.

While your statement was true regarding phone (and WhatsApp) being a lifestyle choice, it has become a critical requirement for participating in the society.

In India, every little thing now requires WhatsApp. Want to contact your doctor, lawyer or want to get receipt? Good luck if you don’t have a smartphone and WhatsApp.

So not having WhatsApp is not a choice. Believe me. I have been running GrapheneOS, WhatsApp free. It is so hard.

Wtf are you talking about? GrapheneOS logo represents hexagon structure of Graphene, one of the strongest material on Earth. It symbolizes the strong security it offers, not a butthole.

This. Google would not be fucking us with Play Integrity and other DRM craps if Linus made the kernel GPLv3 licensed. It would have been a dreamland to have hackable phones, TVs and a whole lot of IoT devices where the users would be controlling them instead of other way around.

Agree. Using AI as a tool is very productive. On the other hand, letting AI drive everything is insanely time consuming and tiring work due to back & forth prompts.

He is. This shouldn’t even be a question.

Because ARM is a fucking mess. Each device has it’s own way of booting. There’s no standard like UEFI or BIOS.

Plus you need propreitary code for modem to support 2G, 3G, 4G…etc. which are complicated to implement.

Who provides free cloud VM?

You can use GitHub.

Well, I can’t say they don’t deserve it.

No. Offline password managers are also suspectible to supply chain risk.

It is e2e encrypted and just works. Everything in Firefox Sync is encrypted including Bookmarks, History, Passwords etc.

Read GPL v3 and why it was introduced in the first place. Code being open source won’t do much.

Home Assistant OS on Raspberry Pi 5. Simple and maintenance free.

Good for you. I use OpenWrt on a decent router yet it’s so flexible. I can create multiple VLANs with different firewall rules, multiple APs, Ad and IP blocking etc.

Honestly I can’t imagine going back to a shitty ISP router ever.

Update your browser or OS. It’s all good here.

Poor Windows. It got caught in the hands of middle and upper management who absolutely have no clue what they are trying to do. Last time I used Windows 11, it looked horrible with each app using different design language and tonnes of MSN stories, advertisements etc. Is that what they are calling AI? It didn’t help with any of the task I needed to complete and was more annoying than anything.

I’m definitely not against AI and in fact I wish AI becomes much efficient so it can run on local machines. I can see it is useful in many areas like translation, video compression, accessibilty tools, code reviews, grammar check, writing etc. But shoving it everywhere makes me puke. It’s waste of time, power, minerals, water and also investor money.

Get real Microsoft.