PWAs are great. No more Electron apps too! Also, Firefox has no way of knowing you are playing a full screen game, that's the os's job to squelch notifications. Now, Mozilla really shouldn't be using notifications to educate users on new browser features. That should be only on the post-upgrade web page and/or the new tab page only.
Jason2357
joined 2 years ago
Enshitification isn't a problem of people being bad at buying stuff.
Indeed. Between 150 and 40 years ago a "platform" that sold devices and also vertically owned everything up to and including the advertising business on those devices would have been illegal. Even AT&T didn't try to mess with the actual content of your phone conversations, despite de facto being given a get-out-of-jail-free card with regards to monopolistic behaviour for 70 years. This isn't a matter of people being bad at buying stuff.
I know of a few rural places that have far more information on OSM than Google. Especially if those areas have a lot of hiking trails. Looking at the logs, it's typically a small handful of people adding things over significant time. It's worth keeping both on your device, and making edits on occasion. Rural areas change pretty slowly typically.
You aren't crazy. I've switched back and forth and currently have an iPhone, but currently primarily use a Thinkpad with a nice minimal Sway-based Alpine Linux desktop and a handful of Debian and 'BSDs kicking around on various machines. There are dozens of us!
Apple phones eeks out current Google options for privacy, security, minimalism, and service life, IMHO, but barely, and other people will argue the other way - I don't care. When there is a legit Linux phone option, I'll probably move then. I just try to use a phone as little as possible in my interaction with technology.
I don't actually regard them as a healthy form-factor for technology. A keyboard and 14' screen is more conducive to creating things or fulsomeness discussion in written form. Depending on the content, they are better for consuming text content (though eReaders are better for some content), and for multi-media consumption, large screens like TVs are better for the eyes.
That the system is abused by bad actors doesn't invalidate all the many thousands of non-profits out there that are literally /not/ motivated by profit (because they cant make any), but by developing a long-term stable operation that pays well for their labour, supports more clients, or serves some other need in the community long-term.
Operating a non-profit means thinking about building a 100-year organization or whatever, not bonuses for shareholders. They are also different from charities, as they can exist to serve a specific, small group of people, like FLOSS developers of a project, or a bunch of volleyball teams for teenagers, or a worker-owned bicycle shop, or a farm co-op, or whatever.
"Profit" is after labour costs. If you are the one selling the seeds, or managing the operation, you pay yourself for that work before profit.
It's a funny example, because many of the "farm coops" that actually sell seeds and agriculture supplies are already non-profit structures.
Even debts to creditors supplying capital are before profit. Profit is the surplus that is un-earned, and the direct result of charging more than necessary, or under-paying for supplies, labour, or capital.
Or, rather, a huge percentage of the work done right now that we just don't classify as "work" under capitalism. Nearly all of us were literally raised with decades of effort stretched over long days, based on motivations that ran counter to personal "profit." As is with most care for the elderly and disabled, as further examples among many.
It was quite the propagandist coo that "work" was re-defined only as work paid for under capitalism, so therefore capitalism motivates all "work"
Two points: every non-tech-literate person out there has installed “apps” on their phone. So, no, its not just techies that want to manage the capability of their devices. And second: both app stores are chalk-full of malware. Theres no reasonable argument that google and apple are protecting non-technical users from malware.
If a boomer was buying a house 30 years ago, they were between 32 and 50 years old. They were not buying starter homes 30 years ago. They already had equity.
Not only has he signed multiple trade agreements, but the trade data is showing a solid shift way from the US to other countries already -despite the fact that most industry works on contracts that are longer than 8 months. The fact that it's already moving is impressive. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/canada-international-trade/
Dude, look up what a progressive web app is. It's just a standards-compliant web page with some reactivity done locally using javascript. Some of them even work perfectly offline because the whole page is cached locally. No jail sentences needed.