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   david [blobcat] (david@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 19:15:51 JST david [blobcat]
   I don't need to upgrade yet I got another year of updates :)
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 19:15:49 JST 翠星石

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     @david >gulag has so generously extended the proprietary updates for 2 more years.
     >After that, you can't really use a perfectly fine device anymore.
     It seems the plan to destroy the Earth has been going perfectly.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:12:13 JST 翠星石

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     • Komet Fox
     @KometFox @david They can be updated forever (see LineageOS and Replicant), but gulag has intentionally made it extremely difficult to update Android, as you can't just go ahead and update different parts like on GNU/Linux (i.e. updating Linux), you have to spend countless hours producing a whole Android image if you want to update anything.
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     Komet Fox (kometfox@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:12:21 JST Komet Fox

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     @Suiseiseki @david
     It's absolute bullshit that old phones cannot receive indefinitely amount of updates, do I look like I am made out of gold or what?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:28:58 JST 翠星石

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     • Komet Fox
     @KometFox @david >despite I use a Goolag e-mail now for all my registration stuff.
     I don't use gmail.
     
     >they have been caught reading e-mails of others on their platform.
     If you don't use GnuPG, obviously the email server host can read your emails.
     
     I would recommend pissmail, as all their JavaScript is now free and you can actually send emails (cock.li required running proprietary PoW software to be able to send emails, except you can't even run it even if you wanted to for the moment for some reason, so you can't send emails with new accounts).
     
     >Linux is a alright platform
     Linux is not a platform, it's a kernel and a proprietary one at that.
     
     GNU Linux-libre is free of those proprietary flaws and when combined with the rest of GNU to make GNU/Linux-libre, you get a great OS.
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     Komet Fox (kometfox@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:28:59 JST Komet Fox

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     @Suiseiseki @david
     I guess I would have to root my Phone then once it won't receive any updates since it is just running on android, I barely use my phone since I do stuff on my computer all the time. Goolag is the worst company to exist and I wouldn't miss it when it goes down despite I use a Goolag e-mail now for all my registration stuff.
     
     I mean I do have like 3 emails at cock.li but apparently their e-mail service is getting unreliable and they have been caught reading e-mails of others on their platform.
     
     Linux is a alright platform, much better than Windows 10/11 at this point, though Linux imo is not completely free of its flaws either.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:43:44 JST 翠星石

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     • Komet Fox
     @KometFox @david Those are all GNU/Linux distros.
     
     If you are too lazy to write GNU/Linux, just write GNU (that's shorter and actually correct too).
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     Komet Fox (kometfox@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:43:45 JST Komet Fox

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     @Suiseiseki @david
     >If you don't use GnuPG, obviously the email server host can read your emails.
     I use the e-mail like about 90% of the time just for registration and purchasing stuff, so I cannot even utilize any form of encryption that way. I don't use e-mails for communication with other people, since most people use shitcord nowadays which I have too now. I fucking despite Shitcord because its a proprietary program and uses jewish tricks to milk out money just so that you can use smiley faces, but every fucking retard uses shitcord now. I wish people would stop using this shit and use a freedom respecting chat program instead, but that will never happen.
     
     >Pissmail
     Meh whatever I cannot be bothered fucking around with my emails even more, I have like 5 different e-mail accounts on different platform (Goolag, Cock-li, AOL)
     
     >Linux is not a platform
     I mean things like Devuan, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and what else exist nowadays for distros. I just want a Linux Distro that is somewhat similiar to Wangblows so I am running myself Xubuntu 22.04 I'd say it works 80% of the time for me, asides from having to search up online sometimes to troubleshoot some issues. I spend already enough time having to debug shit on Wine to get Wangblows games and tools to work properly in Wine/Proton.
     
     Let's just not argue about the semantics please. I mostly do stuff like gaming, doing modelling work with Blender and using various tools like Redot engine for making games, modding GZDoom and Geany for programming, so Xubuntu in a way serves me well and I don't need anymore else.
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     Komet Fox (kometfox@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:46:23 JST Komet Fox

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     • 翠星石
     @Suiseiseki @david Well then GNU/Linux distros.
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