Apologies. I’ve seen weirder shit proposed recently. 2025 has severely damaged my sensors responsible for detecting irony, sarcasm and satire.

As for “how would it work”: on systems as old as Win 7, it would be trivial to escalate privileges and install all kinds of shit.

Made the switch when Windows 7 went EOL. Helped plenty of others make the switch now before 10 was killed off. Life is good indeed.

So, basically Microsoft’s “we know what’s best for you” coercion? No. Fuck that, no matter the purpose.

Junkies high on venture capital, begging for their next hit.

Let me join in! All Lemmy users are wasting their time generalising away into the cold, dark void of the internet.

“Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts” [NYT @ archive]

This is all you need to know: these self-proclaimed defenders of free speech are full of shit.

About damn time. People need to stop dancing around the orange turd and his cronies, desperately trying to appease them.

To, in, and about.

I assume device drivers, but probably it is much more complicated than that

Yes, device drivers are an issue. Reverse engineering them is a bitch and slows you down, particularly if you want to support a wide range of models and those models keep getting hardware updates.

But that’s not all, software ecosystem is another big one. Android and iOS have seen two decades of people developing software for them. In order for them to want to port their software over to your cleanSlateOS, it would have to have a significant user base. And in order for cleanSlateOS to draw that significant user base, it would have to have an attractive suite of apps to run on it. It’s a catch-22.

You could, in theory, try to develop emulators or compatibility layers so that Android apps will also run on cleanSlateOS. But that, again, is time-consuming, will never be free of friction, and require you to make compromises with regard to security and privacy (many apps simply don’t run properly without Google’s main piece of spyware, the Play Services). It will also kind of tie you to Google - and that was the thing you were trying to get away from in the first place…

The problem is: at least where I live, banks use mobile apps to generate second factor authentication. (No TOTP, all proprietary / homegrown mechanics.) No second factor - no login.

Yup. We’re big on pre-fascist nostalgia.

I’m anti trusting any U.S. law these days.

Definitely the most worrying thing about America right now.

As it started experimenting on them, its appreciation for their elasticity grew.

Keepass + Syncthing for cloudless sync between devices. Dreamteam.

Everything is a dildo - if you’re brave enough.

Exactly! I can no longer read ads for crypto scams, right-wing misinformation and porn bot spam? Do not threaten me with a good time.

Never used it.

Started self-hosting Navidrome.

Never gonna use it.

A generation raised on LLMs wheren’t been madeing this mistake.

IllegalArgumentException: expected random number, got Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.