I don't even think this counts because then you'd be paying for the brittle and useless big folding display as well, when all you want is the smaller outer one. Plus the worse repairability.
To be fair, most phones have invasive Google/Apple/Chinese OEM services that work with high privileges and are invasive on their own, without apps. The share of people using degoogled OSes is small enough to assume it isn't the case. And, to be fair, if someone has a degoogled phone, you'd probably know that by now (I say as also a degoogled user XD)
Statements like this are a stretch. This was not the fact of using the OS, but specifically the fact of wiping it. The situation is atrocious enough as is, no need to make up additions.
> Much like with artists 90% of the commercial stuff - copy/ads with generic guy in suit picture - will be AI that is "good enough".
Eh, wouldn't be sure. Every time I see slop in such a context, it makes my day worse. And usually ensures I wouldn't go to that business, or at least unconsciously biases me against it.
> It's important to remember that to this day, streaming sites do not have a full archive of the music out there.
And even if they did, you'd still need to pirate a copy of your collection to own it (as there's a chance not all of it is sold digitally and DRM-less).
"Eat less meat, smaller homes, no flights"? Sounds like an average person to me because of poverty, lol. Even my family, well above the threshold for poverty, has to do this.
"Electric cars" is less likely tho because having a car at all is a money drain.
> The fact that BlueSky runs the PLC central server is supposed to be fixed by them creating a swiss association to run and control it instead, but while they announced this, it is unclear if it went anywhere.
That I didn't know! So... Basically the whole solution is still "trust me bro"?
Kind of. From what I've been told, the non-trust-me-bro solution is did:web, which is just "you host a file on a web server containing all the same information the PLC serves". Problem is, if you already have a did:plc, you're stuck with it - you cannot migrate off a DID, as it's intended to be about as immutable as an SQL primary key.
There are also read-only mirrors of the PLC, but that doesn't really matter, given that the whole point of the PLC is to be a trusted[1] entity for arbitrating identity conflicts. This is necessary because the PLC is what lets you register new signing keys to overrule an uncooperative PDS - otherwise, you have the moral equivalent of Mastodon instances where an instance admin can hold your identity hostage.
And, technically speaking, did:web is also "trust-me-bro", in the sense that it ultimately relies on DNS to resolve names to servers. DNS and PLC are moral equivalents[0] in that ultimately there is a central authority to arbitrate disputes over who owns what identities. In fact, there kind of has to be. Every proposal for a true distributed identity system ultimately boils down to either pinning a self-signed key or web-of-trust, both of which have undesirable failure modes due to the lack of a central trusted authority.
Ultimately, the choice comes down to: do you want to pay the DNS people $15/yr for a zone to host your DID on, or do you trust Bluesky's PLC server to offer that hosting for free?
[0] Almost. In practice, DNS is a recursively nested set of central governors; every TLD imposes an additional governor on top of ICANN root zone management. In practice, almost all DNS shenanigans happen at registrars; and of the shenanigans not caused by registrars, most of them happen at the TLD operators and not the root zone itself.
[1] PLC stores all identity updates in an append-only log. I'd call it a blockchain, but the Bitcoin people ruined that term. Practically speaking, if the PLC were to "turn evil" and mess with people's identities there'd be irrefutable proof of it. How much this assuages your concern depends on what you think about Certificate Transparency.
The answer here would be "there's no such thing as a generic "server" like in ActivityPub because it's split into different components, of which a PDS is only one".
Honestly my main question here is "If you disagree with various ActivityPub instances' defederations, you can get around this by starting your own instance that federates with everything; is there an equivalent for bypassing Bluesky's moderation decisions?"
The vast majority of people gotta get stressed to be able to buy food before retirement age. I wonder how old she was when she started the low-stress lifestyle.
