3 companies own everything. Small, decent teams get acquired by said garbage each day. Many individual workers don’t have the choice practically.

I imagine you’ll grow some empathy when the VCs start to target what you do and acquire all the small-medium businesses in the ignorant asshole industry.

I used AI to do all the AI for me and I won AI and now reward is fired…

NOBODY WANTS TO WORK (on loving scout) ANYMORE!!!

Why are people, who populate the mainstream forward edge of the tech to regain collective ownership of online public spaces, “obsessed” with tech company layoffs? Why are all of these people, maybe a majority of them currently or formerly employed by that industry, following that industry? Is that your question, friend?

I’d guess Meta.

“The technology business is more difficult than some may realize, as parts must be tested for quality assurances,” Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien said in a statement to CNET."

Fucking Pat sounds like a real rocket surgeon

I think this is about what I’ve heard to date on drawbacks, by as you mentioned, I think I’ll take the chance for the privacy benefits.

Agreed, some very talented and generous people worked to make it easier and easier, but less options over time when manufacturers started dropping and phones all consolidated and locked down more and more. Even when it was more complex in early days, and greater risk of a brick, you could often restore back to a stock ROM or dual boot in a way so actual risk was minimal if you just slowed down and followed directions - again provided by very generous people who just wanted to make things better.

I have a newer Pixel phone and I’m comfortable installing and running custom ROMs from doing so regularly back in the day - for those who’ve daily driven both, what are the reasons I should NOT switch from the stock OS to GrapheneOS?

You’re bringing a lot of personal momentum to your responses obviously. My point was clear, state specific issues to allow the potential for specific answers. If you’re moving in good faith, that’s the approach.

The perspective here is one of someone resistant to change, blaming FOSS as an easier scapegoat. Always simplest to blame the tool over the operator… And often, that “dumbshit, broken printer that won’t print!!!” Just wasnt plugged in.

Your rebuttal is borked.

I appreciate you attempting expansion, I will say it is still difficult when you’re asked for specific detail and your response consistently States generalities like:

“lack of support” - meaning what, feature isn’t there at all? Doesn’t display existing tables from uploaded excel docs?

“has serious issues” - meaning… what are they?

“results in issues” - …

“…is borked” - c’mon

and "incredibly slow " - relative to what? Double time of expected from excel? Triple? Extra two seconds per attempt?

You’re using subjective terms that mean people can’t A) determine if you’re problem will impact them as well and B) you’re not describing your perceived issues well enough to allow experts reading along here, now or in the future, to offer you actual solutions or alternatives.

That considered, it makes you come off as a person who doesn’t want their perceived problem solved.

Probably more credibility if you actually give real, specific examples of what you cannot do on Libre Calc that you require?

President, strike thyself.

No it doesn’t. Keep pretending though

Well said. No shortage of forced panic, sacrificial boogeymen to fixate on for the worst among us

Oh damn, harsh bud… Did Covid radicalize you?

Covid didn’t “radicalize” anyone? It was just an opportunity for bad people, with more typically controlled PR images to that point, to show the world exactly who they had always been.

All these goons also have multiple performative “arguments” over the years to muddy the conversation about how evil they actually are. Vance called trump America’s Hitler, elon basically called trump a pedophile publicly post-doge and at the end of the day, they are all still hanging out ruining the world. None of it was sincere.

Would advise you to stop eating that little trail of curated breadcrumbs they leave for you, it’s a cynical game and they think you’re stupid enough to buy it.

That goon has his DNA all over bluesky, and he has a long history with elon. Cling to semantics if you need to, but the spirit of what I said was true. If they could get away with the optics of dorsey heading bluesky in that “exodus” moment, they would have. But all knew that would leave a bad taste in the public’s mouth and slow/stall adoption, so they had the charade they presented.

Blue sky was started by elon’s good buddy. It was always going to go full shit.