(“Linux” here as in “GNU/Linux”, as opposed to “the Linux kernel”, which Android phones also use.)
I feel compelled to point out that PostmarketOS, one of the popular Linux phone options is not, in fact GNU. It’s based on musl and BusyBox, not glibc and GNU utils.
this is clearly a breach of the DMA
Is it? I think the DMA should have been written so that it is, but Apple does essentially the same thing and EU regulators don’t seem to be claiming that it’s a violation.
Medical cannabis cards are not prescriptions, and cannabis remains illegal for medical use under federal law in the USA.
There have been attempts to interpret this as meaning that someone with a medical cannabis card may not legally own a firearm, but when the question has gone to court recently, judges have usually disagreed,
The best thing about Pixels for me is the no-fuss bootloader unlock, but an unlocked bootloader is already a prerequisite for running LineageOS.
With Magisk and Play Integrity Fix, mostly yes. As it comes. mostly no.
In this context, I think two operating systems are in the same family if software for one can be recompiled for another with minimal changes without heavyweight compatibility libraries.
In that sense, I would put BSD and traditional desktop Linux distributions in the same family even though they don’t share low-level code, and I would exclude Android even though it uses the Linux kernel.
This is a forum.
Forums and blogs could be classed as social media, but they predate widespread use of the term, and are fundamentally different from the corporate social platforms.
It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.
What is wrong with people.
Several studies have found that women prefer men their own age or slightly older, and men prefer women in their early 20s regardless of their own age. It’s not hard to explain that with evolutionary biology, as that’s when women are most likely to successfully bear children.
Of course evolutionary biology can explain behaviors like rape and dueling, which are serious crimes in modern societies.
Your “very young” might mean younger than early 20s though, and we do have a crime for that most places if the number gets low enough.
Wafrn might be worth a look. I’ve been meaning to try it myself.
Mastodon’s character limit is pretty easy to change when self-hosting, but it has other limitations like a lack of even basic formatting and images inline in posts. I think that’s true of several of the others as well.
There is a risk Google could tamper with the app for specific users if they’re installing it from Google Play. I think it’s likely security researchers would discover that if it was widespread, but there’s a chance Google could do it undetected if they targeted it selectively enough.
People who are concerned about this can download the APK directly from Signal and check its signature before installation.
Signal uses reproducible builds for its Android client, and I think for desktop as well. That means it’s possible to verify that a particular Signal package is built from the open source Signal codebase. I don’t have to trust Signal because I can check or build it myself.
If I don’t have extreme security needs, I don’t even have to check. Signal has a high enough profile that I can be confident other people have checked, likely many other people who are more skilled at auditing cryptographic code than I am.
Trusting the server isn’t necessary because the encryption is applied by the sender’s client and removed by the recipient’s client.
I’m still using a phone from 2020. It’s fine. If I got something new, it would probably be bigger and lack a headphone jack.
A new phone would have a better camera than my old one, but it would not be as good a camera as my Olympus, which I use when I care about the result.
The airline probably owes you money under the EU 261 passenger rights regulation.
Thus, a seatless bus. A what?!
That’s pretty common at European airports. It’s rare in the USA, but I’ve seen it.
I had four overnight delays in three round trip transatlantic flights in 2025. The airline was at fault for three of them.
When the airline is at fault for a delay of four hours or more on a long flight that starts or ends in the EU, they owe the passenger 600 Euros, a hotel room, and meals, so those were long delays but not exactly terrible experiences.
Getting stuck for 20 hours in the Newark airport due to weather wasn’t as pleasant. The airline did not owe me anything because weather is not their fault. There were hundreds of other delayed travelers sleeping on cots in the halls of the airport. They did not have a cot for me.
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It’s worth thinking about whether dimensions like these are cause or effect, and political or personality traits. zlatiah points out that there are techniques for identifying which ones cause political behavior.
The thing is, you can install software from whatever source you like on your Mac. That’s not true of your iPhone - even in the EU and Japan where they’ve been forced to open up a little, apps can only be installed with Apple’s permission.
Macs were completely open in that regard until recently. You could install apps from wherever you want. Now, Mac apps have to be notarized by Apple or installing them requires use of the command line. That’s obnoxious, but the user still has the final say, unlike the iPhone.