So everyone’s seen that one video 💀

“NOO!! The free thing you’re providing for free that my business is mooching off of changed and I don’t want to learn how to use package managers 😡”

If it’s something with a solid reputation, and a history of good code curation. Maybe backed by a non-profit foundation ( e.g FUTO, KDE’s mobile apps ). I dont have any issue allowing whatever permissions it requests right off the bat.

If something ever ever happened with KDE Connect. There’d be hellfire, and shouting all over the internet for miles and miles. KDE is one of the organizations that actually has the resources and manpower to properly vet contributions. KDE hosts their own git client, with their own credentials, and their own dedicated team ( A bad actor can’t just push a harmful update directly without humans reviewing it). They’ve also been doing this for longer than I’ve even been alive, they don’t ask for a profit, and they make a damn good desktop environment so I guess I feel comfortable trusting apps from their F-droid repo xD

You could spend time manually reviewing the source for every FOSS application you install, which isn’t a terrible idea. But at the end of the day it does matter to an extent how much you trust an individual / organization. And how open that individual / organization is to the community.

I appreciate it so much : P

This helped me find the toggle to keep it off

Thank you so much!!! ฅ^>⩊< ฅ

Librefind might help also! You can use it to compare the proprietary apps on your phone to feature complete FOSS solutions. ^. ^

Should also put some broken plastic lawn chairs outside. A few dirty kids toys. Board up the windows for good measure.

I can’t wait fo all the cool art and new people this year!!

Please do join the matrix chat, we’re very lonely ⋟﹏⋞

He said his client is being treated unfairly because he’s a white outsider.

Are we serious with this one? Hawaii has been ethnically cleansed since like 200 years ago. Even if that were true this defense ostensibly makes things far far worse.

Would you walk into a Lakota reservation and shoot a Bison? And then bitch about being a white outsider?

The amazing digital circumcision

I would honestly rather have a loaded nuclear silo right underneath my house than a massive AI data center within 1000 miles of me