Sorry if I misunderstood your comment, it seemed like a metaphor for social media but perhaps I assumed too much. My bad!

You know you don’t have to doomscroll social media right? You can just, you know, not do social media.

Very optimistic of you to think they actually tested it :)

I don’t think it works that way… on paper it sure looks the way you said but I’m 99% sure there’s all sorts of gentlemen agreements and other back channel stuff going on there.

It used to be required at a lot of camping pools because the longer shorts would take too much water out of the pool… nowadays it’s not often required anymore in my experience.

Yes.

Maybe sending people like you back to level it out could work?

In my opinion these parties are often mentioning valid issues or things that could be improved in society, and people vote for that. The problem is these parties don’t really have solutions either, but that’s something that doesn’t show up until after the elections…

Ha, I did not! Been a long time since I saw that image lol, thanks.

He just did.

Have you heard about helicopters?

I never said anything about Onyx, I don’t own one but have considered them. They look nice and open.

I do own a couple of Kobo devices though and just wanted to say it’s not running Android of any kind but it’s still relatively open. Especially compared to phones, tablets and Kindle. The firmware/OS point you’re trying to make is irrelevant there and I think you know it :)

There is NickelMenu and you can telnet into it. You can also install other OS like KOReader easily, it doesn’t have a locked bootloader or anything like that. So imho that’s pretty accessible and open.

We are talking about the Kobo right? It’s not running any kind of Android or AOSP fork.

No it’s not running Android.

Using Calibre you could probably glue that together. I wouldn’t want Android on an ereader personally.

It’s not open source but it is easily rooted and you can install custom add-ons or even replace the os.

They won’t. Most people just don’t care at all unfortunately :(

They specifically mention it’s on the protocol level which would imply it’s doing more than just blocking some ports. Not sure why you’d think China could pull that off but it would be infeasible for Russia?

Perhap we should focus on cleaning up earth first :-)