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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/LibreOffice since I finished school and I am not looking back. It's sad that some people don't know about alternatives and are paying for Office360 regularly, they are like drug addicts.

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 question or solving a simple puzzle (ideally visualizing the outcome while solving it).

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 people use only a handful of corprations for IT services. :(

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 closed solution, so pay more for it!

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 than Android ones.

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 time. Anyway, easily removable batteries are the way to go.

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 advertisers for analysis...

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 giant corporations is money, no matter what. They will always support mainstream closed platforms only.

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 our time and reduces productivity. :(

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 HTTP200 and it doesn't matter if you do so using a browser, phantomjs or curl with -A parameter.

A different situation would be scraping a website to make business. Worst being directly using the data - for example those StackOverflow clones with original data doesn't sound ok to me. I am not sure what to think about bots doing various derived work like stats and analysis. I think that if they are part of a business, making money, it shouldn't be legal unless those request are permitted by robots.txt.

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 configuration and has many useful functions built-in and they are quite fast. Unfortunatelly it doesn't use bash-style syntax like zsh does.

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 Tab twice when doing path completion, the list of possibilities comes out, allowing arrow keys to be used for selection. The problem is that it requires pressing Enter to confirm the suggestion and I fear of executing the command with incomplete path prematurely (it's just one more Enter hit away).

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 email company's support department.

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 over it.. Sometimes work reasons force people into Mac/Windows though... :(

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, bioses). Some time ago, firmware in a notebook used to install drivers into windows during boot without user knowing that. We are dependent on technology and we don't seem to care about security much, other than buying some magical binary blobs called Antivirus and Cleaners.

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 daily product and expect it "to just work". :( Lots of people don't even know about alternatives, as their software comes pre-installed. Big companies are more and more controlling users and it looks like they don't care?

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.

They were times when people used to manage their servers and they had to be careful on how to use 'rm -rf' or 'dd' tools.

I find it funny how today there have to be red flags, warning signs and double confirmations everywhere. Are people less competent or are there simply lower requirements when hiring them?

That's exactly what I also hate. Sometimes mousing over a button makes the fan spining crazily. Websites are more and more cpu and ram-intensive unnecessarily.

They are making a kind of masterpiece to be presented on a gallery than websites useful for everyday use.

Also I have mixed feeling about the whole single page application era. They are impressive on one side and bloated and slow on the other. I liked more when web used to be content (text/image) sharing platform than apps. Browsers today are like operating systems on top of operating system. :( That's both good and terrible.

Situation is quite bad for all smartphones.

But for Android there is at least f-droid.org repository made of apps automatically compiled from the source code. I prefer using these apps. And the fact you can install what you want. In iOS you are locked into a censored AppStore and have to pay to get a certificate to run your own app.

There is also a small chance for someone to develop an Android phone with fully open software in the future. There is 0% chance to have an open iPhone.

It happens. Most people don't care anyway. They will continue buying and stock price will continue rising. ;)

And seeing this I am wondering why people still trust closed-source software. My long term dream is using 100% free software on a HW with minimum binary blobs.