From a business perspective: more control over the manufacturing process and less risk of getting hit by tariffs
Alt account of @Cube6392@beehaw.org for looking at stuff Beehaw defederated
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From a business perspective: more control over the manufacturing process and less risk of getting hit by tariffs
The main concern is going to be hardware reliability from wear and tear. That’s the value of buying refurbished, for which there are several reputable retailers online (some of which selling degoogled phones with their own OSes). On the software side, since I’m presuming the focus of this discussion is installing grapheneos, its not really a concern since you’re going to be reflashing the device
Go cheap, and go second hand if possible
Proton, Tuta, Mailbox.org, Posteo
All are equal in terms of their overall quality of service, just different in what advantages they offer (except for Mailbox.org and Posteo. They’re just offering standards compliant email servers without any bullshit and let you roll your own encryption)
Buncha dark pattern bullshit
I was digging LMDE until my 8GB of ram simply couldn’t handle the load and I’m in AntiX now. Honestly, I’ve watched Mint go from being immature and insecure to security leaders without losing their accessibility. Solid and incredibly important distro if you ask me
Hopefully you’ve tried another distro by now, and also know to avoid big corporate distros best you can
They’ve never given me the vibe that that reversal of course was permanent, or that other things they do aren’t similarly anti-user
Personally for me its about the double standard. When we perform small scale “theft” to experience things we’d be willing to pay for if we could afford it and the money funded the artists, they throw the book at us. When they build a giant machine that takes all of our work and turns it into an automated record scratcher that they will profit off of and replace our creative jobs with, that’s just good business. I don’t think it’s okay that they get to do things like implement DRM because IP theft is so terrible, but then when they do it systemically and against the specific licensing of the content that has been posted to the internet, that’s protected in the eyes of the law
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and then reopening the editor instead of just using :w
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and then the right arrow key until they’re at the end of a lineIts so rough watching non vimmers use vim
Not about being in the us specifically. But about keeping your manufacturing near your entire supply chain.
But the uncertainty of what will come soon for tariffs is