As someone from a developing country, windows 11 contributes to higher digital inequality because of its unnecessary high hardware requirements. If they don’t support windows 10 for a long time, we will suffer a great toll.

And unfortunately, people around here barely use linux and developed quite a repulsion for it, which only makes things worse for ourselves…

It’s hard not to hate microsoft when we live on the ugly side of capitalism.

Have you ever tried abiword? It’s really lightweight.

Nice article! Are you the author? If so, I’d like to give you a suggestion: the part about the deepin Linux story and technical background is interesting enough to be its own article. That way, it would be more findable on web searchers and probably help a lot of people who look for information on it, which is a bit scarce in english.

Could you elaborate about the privacy part?

Some software developers prefer to host their own repos and have more control over the release process and/or don’t want to fill all the criteria for being included on f-droid, so they create their own repos. Some of these apps can still be found on vanilla fdroid, but often aren’t updated so frequently.

Izzyondroid, on the other hand, is a different project, aimed at hosting different apps that are usually from smaller devs and can’t be included on fdroid yet, for different reasons.

The greatest thing about fdroid is that it allows anyone to create their own repos and you aren’t forced to depend on anyone.

In addition, pirated physical media used to be an easy way for non techy people to acquire media in developing countries.

5 years already? Shit, I’m old.

Even places like lemmy or mastodon aren’t safe anymore. Everything that is public can be, and is, data mined by some corporation. There will be bot accounts or paid people pushing their agenda. And several other things.

It’s not a technical problem. We can have places that are better than the average, but the corporations will still put their tentacles in.

Even the author of the social model published an article years lates to clarify what the model is supposed to mean and emphasized that it was never supposed to replace the medical one.

Gnu can be used to describe the gnu project, the gnu license or the gnu coreutils. In this context, they mean that Linux by itself isn’t enough to be the a free desktop, and needs the gnu software to be the system they care about. (There can be controversies on whether gnu is needed or not, since it’s possible to create a distro without the coreutils, but let’s not get you confused right now)

The weird thing for me is that by paying to use, you will need to be uniquely identified, and that opens doors for losing privacy in several ways. How is that addressed by kagi?

The incredible thing about these articles is that they don’t make the slight mention of lemmy.

That one linked is a well written summary of what happened, but it’s partial if they don’t include the migration that happened, even if it wasn’t that big.

Good idea, worth checking.

But what do you do when services and institutions in general require you to use whatsapp? That’s what is mostly keeping me from deleting that app.

I have been looking at this possibility, but running a bridge means that I will need to self host a service, which adds one more point of failure, while not really removing whatsapp from my life, so I’m not convinced it’s a good alternative.

Whatsapp

And no, I can’t simply stop using or ask friends to move to an alternative. I’m from Brazil and that thing is so popular and mainstream, that even stores or public services use it.

Just this week, I had to report an animal abuse case to the authorities, and the official communication channel I had to use was through whatsapp.

It’s sad to see how dependent of a single proprietary service for something so important we allowed ourselves to become…

Even more important is to see the windows downtrend. We need competition, keep it going!

One trick is to have anold android phone. I created a couple of accounts last year without giving any personal data by using a device with android kitkat.

I feel the same. I can’t recommend it to anyone anymore.

Congrats!

Enjoy the freedom and don’t be afraid to ask for help. In time, you will see yourself helping others and contributing to the community.