So, are people picking their battles by practically bullying others into thinking they’re wrong and outdated? They could simply ignore people talking about phone jacks, but they don’t. They’re not picking battles. They’re actively fighting, and on the corps’ side.

Also, there’s always a bigger battle. If we think like this, no one will ever do anything. Corporations don’t go all in. They take things away from us one small step at a time, and people allow it, because they’re always small things, but just like boiling frogs, we will end up into a cyberpunk era.

Every time someone mentions the headphone jack, comes a legion of people defending the corporations. People will really accept anything they do and bully the ones who don’t want to submit. That’s impressive! And we’re in a place with higher-than-average corporation haters.

It’s even more impressive when we think about how Bluetooth earphone users don’t gain anything by removing the jack, neither lose anything by keeping it. It literally doesn’t affect them, but heavily affects anyone who uses wired phones or other stuff. People simply use their energy against others, in favor of corporations for absolutely no benefits for them, but simply for fucking the other people. I can’t understand this behavior.

Thank you for taking your time to write this and to find a few resources. I will give it a deep read and try to better understand it.

I really want to understand this, but I don’t find constructive information anywhere. Everything I read either doesn’t really explain anything at all and is based on assumptions/opinions, or expect me to be a mobile os engineer.

Let’s say I have a phone with lineageos, without google play services and without gapps, with most apps installed via f-droid and only a couple from aurora store. What power does google have over me, that wouldn’t also have if I used a pixel with grapheneos?

In terms of security, If any threat involving physical access to the phone is statistically irrelevant for me, how is my phone less secure than stock android? And how would grapheneos improve my life?

By less secure I mean lineageos or /e/os. How does it miss the point entirely?

Moving to phones made by google as a protest against google really seems weird. Sorry, but I will stick to the less secure options

I’ve seen lots and lots of discussions on whether people like or not working, and it always sums up to people giving different meanings to the word “work”. When it comes to do things as a hobby, for a cause, or for fulfilling any objective we have, most people will say that they enjoy it, but when it comes to serving someone else on a schedule, just to afford to stay alive, I’ve never seen anyone say that they enjoy it.

Edit: some combination of words from my comment and the general theme made me somehow think about the music stayin’ alive, and I can’t get it out of my head anymore!

People uniting themselves against corporations, oligarchs and consumerism culture

I’d really give it a try, if I had one. I find some pleasure in trying to fix and find new life for unused hardware, no matter how old or weird it is. Well, sometimes I fail, but I keep it in case I get nrw ideas for it in the future.

4 gb is pretty reasonable for light usage. The hdd can be formatted as btrfs with compression for better performance. I’d also consider replacing the hdd with an ssd and using the hdd as extra storage, if possible.

Nothing is e-waste if you’re skilled enough

Here in Brazil, a lot of kids watch streamers because their families can’t afford any gaming devices :(

On the other hand, if you just want to make people uneasy and some even angry, you can just use and share bitmaps.

So they downloaded it all to train their models and didn’t even seed back!?

you’re the hero we don’t deserve

Have you checked if you have the port used by your torrent software forwarded?

You’re totally correct. I just have a too fertile imagination. There’s nothing to see here, officer!

(Phew, hat one was too close. I will do better next time)

We don’t even need to burn stuff. We can turn the system into chaos by a mere general strike, like literally staying at home and not working or buying stuff for a few days, like really doing nothing and seeing the economic system crash. We don’t even need to be close to 100% of the population joining such a movement for it to work.

Social media by itself can’t divide people. People become divided when they start thinking and acting like you’re doing at this moment.

But how to do that reliably and with up-to-date info if not invading the privacy of people?