Signal was never supposed to provide anonymity.

5 years ago I would default to Mint because of how pain free the installation and setup process was. It would magically fix all the sound/sleep/firmware etc. issues other distros had.

Now Debian has caught up to it IMHO. Yes, you still have to add some non-free repos or firmware packages but it’s really easy and after that it’s mostly smooth sailing. The stability and simplicity of Debian is hard to beat. I’ve spent years on testing version and never had a single issue with an upgrade. It’s rock solid.

Everything just works out of the box. It’s a pretty massive difference from the world of Vim, where a significant investment to figure out how to customize your editor to your liking is required.

Ok, so the issue I have with this is that “customizing” is not the same as “making it work”. Very often I will have a working environment and I will still spend 30 minutes looking for a color theme that I like. Two completely different things. The benefit of investing significant amount of time to configure something is that while you’re figuring out how to make something work you’re also making it work exactly the way you like it.

That being said, neovim is really hard to configure correctly. I had some many weird issues with LSP recently that I’m definitely open to trying something new like Helix.

Yeah, it’s really hard to find WiFi 6 hardware with reliable Linux support (brostrend.com has good support). It used to be that things like sport watches required apps to configure and only Windows was supported but nowadays most will be configurable using Android. Most common hardware (cameras, card readers, external drives) use USB now so it’s hard to find something without support.

[citation needed]

Nice trolling, dude.

Yaaaaay!

Said no one.

GTFO. They are saying that regular donations are so much better that they prefer them even if they will receive less money. Isn’t that obvious? If you have $4k in the bank account today you can in theory hire a permanent dev but you don’t know if you will be able to pay him next month. If you have $3k per month in regular donations you know that you will be able to pay someone as long as people don’t cancel those. Which will take some time. Which gives you the stability needed to hire people.

Phrasing this as “gnome has too much money” is malicious.

What if he just want some of the sweet, sweet VC money but realizes this will never actually happen?

Because everyone else is on WhatsApp. I moved most of my friends to Signal but I’m in some clubs that use WhatsApp groups to communicate. Yes, I could leave but then I wouldn’t know about many activities.

Thanks for that. I had a discussion about it in another thread but without concrete numbers.

you are mostly paying for a boutique manufacturing process

You’re also in a way supporting an NGO lobbying for repairability and sustainability. We’ve seen progress on this front in EU and it’s possible Fairphone made some impact by showing what is technically achievable. It’s hard for Google to say that replaceable battery simply can’t be done when you have another company doing it.

Personally I find $300-$400 donation to be too much. If they would establish donations plan I would probably support them. I do donate to Signal from time to time and other OS projects regularly. But I’m happy that enough people are willing to donate to keep them going.

Like a boss.

MacBooks are some of the best computers ever sold.

Yeah, but that’s just one generation out of many. For me MacBooks have terrible keyboards (personal preference, I know, but I hate them), had very common issues with battery, terrible reparability and stupid features like the Touch Bar (which they finally removed proving right everyone who said it’s dumb). So yeah, new MacBooks have great performance but overall the line was not that great IMHO. Very nice design, good quality, not great usability.

Pfff, that’s nothing. My club doesn’t even have a website.

If you want to know copy and paste this link into your browser: text.only

Probably. I’m not saying that Frairphone is bad and that what they are doing doesn’t have any value. What I’m saying is that their phones were always too expensive for me and now that there are other phones with 7-8 year lifespan on the market it’s even harder to justify the expense. I’m glad that enough people had the money to support Fairphone and I’m grateful for their contribution in changing the legislation. Maybe in 5-6 years, when I have to change my phone, I will get a Fairphone.

Why TCL didn’t pay them to also remove bad reviews?

The single best thing for sustainability is long lifetime of the phone. Now that EU mandates it and Apple, Pixel and Samsung all offer 7 years of updates Fairphone’s advantage here is slim. The rest are just vague promises. Apple also promises to support people and communities involved in its supply chain: https://www.apple.com/supply-chain/ All the companies try to avoid sweatshops because it’s terrible for PR but unless you are actually going to assemble the phone in EU you don’t really know who made it. For me the difference between two phones made in China is not big enough to pay double.

Yes, that foxxcon. The one that has better reviews on Glassdoor then the company that assembles Fairphone. What’s your point?

Pixel is build by Foxxcon. Foxxcon has 3.5 stars on Glassdoor. From what I found Fairphone is build by TCL which has 3.2 stars on Glassdoor.

It’s all still made in Asia. It’s really hard to monitor conditions there and it’s pretty much impossible to monitor conditions at every step of the supply chain. I understand paying extra for a more sustainable phone (repairable, longer support) but paying double for a vague promise of being more “fair”? Thanks by no thanks. Pixel has 8 years of support now so the difference in sustainability is minimal.