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   Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 11:27:50 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

   Computers are terrible. Proprietary software is terrible. The “free software community” is also terrible. We should all say open source, and not be cultish about these things.

   I do like having a Mac and I like to use open source stuff as much as possible, but also Mac proprietary software mindsets are bad too and users should tell app developers to fuck off as much possible.

   I also think all web browsers should be open source by law.

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 11:43:03 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     • Ernie Smith

     @ernie 1991

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     Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 11:43:04 JST Ernie Smith

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     @mattl When did computers stop being good?

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     Phil M (pmarrone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 11:48:03 JST Phil M

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     @mattl everyone is terrible

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 11:48:03 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     • Phil M

     @pmarrone lol

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 11:57:11 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     I had a shit experience with a proprietary Mastodon app. I was called entitled by a few people.

     Okay.

     I support paying developers for their work. I don’t support anxiety driven clicks to use a TestFlight app from Apple and I don’t support arguments that are anti-consumer. I don’t like everything Apple does, I doubt most people do.

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 12:01:00 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     • Fabien Niñoles

     @ninoles I don’t think most people want to use that OS.

     It will be almost certainly hard to use.

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     Fabien Niñoles (ninoles@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 12:01:01 JST Fabien Niñoles

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     @mattl I would have startedwith OS and firmware first. And a user should have full control, including the right to not give access, to its TPM keyset. Without this, you just cannot trust any software, including a browser, running on your machine.

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     Phil M (pmarrone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 12:13:04 JST Phil M

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     @mattl everyone is just… terrible

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 12:13:04 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     • Phil M

     @pmarrone yes