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GNU founder Stallman has a big page with many other reasons against using Facebook. You should read it too.. https://stallman.org/facebook.html

This is exactly what I wanted to write. But some people can't be helped... Our school also forced us MS Office and I had to learn LibreOffice myself. I have been using OO/LibreOffi…

People are used to say Yes in a standard confirmation dialog. It would be helpful to implement something more complicated like pressing two buttons, typing "yes" to a clear questio…

They will get paid probably plus it gives them free marketing for Signal. It's a win win situation. :)

I appreciate the effort but I have a feeling that there is not enough developers for existing free OSes and I am not sure it is very wise to fragment the community even more.

Host your own email server (like me) or use email services of your webhosting or ISP. Email is a simple service originally developed to be decentralized but modern Idiocracy makes …

And THAT'S WHY it's good for corporations to have closed non-libre drivers :) They can make an easy buck by selling 'more expensive' licenses. You are the buyer, you decided for a …

Yes, one of the reason I switched to Android years ago (which has its own issues). But Apple makes people pay lot of money for "premium device" which has worse long-time usability …

Can't it be a problem with the fuel gauge inacurately measuring the battery capacity? I have seen it only on one "cheap" Android device and I have been using Androids for a long ti…

My "friend" started to be aggresive and supporting this Apple explanation. It feels to me they behave like addicted. They need a new iPhone dose for xmass this year.

I don't get why this was downwoted? By using google maps one contribute back traffic data and route problems for free + you share your position which can be sold to billboard adver…

I am thankful for projects like OpenStreetMaps. If I ever switch to a libre mobile operating system it, will take little time to get OSM-based maps app there. Main priority of gian…

That is not the same. You can always check the Spam folder. But you can't see posts which FB decided not to show you!

No, that's not practically possible. And even if it were, FB could stop or change/restrict it any time.

Ads are being served and FB makes money from advertisers. It's good that some people are slowly starting to see that...

People shouldn't rely on these services for anything important. FB is primarily ad serving business and entertainment website. It doesn't make our life better, it also takes away o…

I think scraping for personal use (not honorig robots.txt) should always be legal unless you are attempting DOS. You are accessing public information, the server is returning HTTP2…

I tried oh-my-zsh and it was too slow for me for some reason. Returning from a command took a second. Maybe I had some buggy plugin enabled, I don't know. Fish is almost zero confi…

Thanks for it! I am also using Fish happily for interactive terminal work. Not so much for scripting as I am lazy to learn the new syntax. What I don't like is that after hitting T…

It is sad. Linux could be better if more people used it. Currently its use for desktop is relatively low. People tend to trust companies more so all they can do now is complain and…

Why you are still using it then? Operating systems are very complicated beasts, none is perfect but I like Linux the most. There are issues too but I feel like I have more control …

It means money is not everything. Yet for some reason people seem to think the most expensive stuff is the safest, nicest and the best one. Like they are buying trust or what..

We already lost control over HW and SW. There are often malicious functionalities in binary software and our 'hardware' can't be trusted either (Intel ME, AMD PSP, firmwares, biose…

It's sad to see companies doing that (walled gardens, locked bootloaders). Unfortunatelly most normal people don't understand the differences. They buy the device like any other da…

I think that vitamin D defficiency may have contributed to start of my Multiple Sclerosis! I used to sit mostly inside all summer programming. So be careful.