As someone from a developing country, windows 11 contributes to higher digital inequality because of its unnecessary high hardware requirements. If they don’t support windows 10 for a long time, we will suffer a great toll.

And unfortunately, people around here barely use linux and developed quite a repulsion for it, which only makes things worse for ourselves…

It’s hard not to hate microsoft when we live on the ugly side of capitalism.

Have you ever tried abiword? It’s really lightweight.

Depends on the device. Some allow the bootloader to be unlocked officially. Root is usually needed when you unlock the bootloader unofficially, using some hack.

Also, /e/os supports an official gsi, which can be installed without root.

That said, these phones aren’t suited for people that need absolute security and privacy. They’re more experimental and aimed at enthusiasts of the project who want to support it.

I can see why eos raises some concerns, but i find it to be an interesting alternative with moderate potential. We definitely need more alternatives to standard android.

Could you elaborate about the privacy part?

In addition, pirated physical media used to be an easy way for non techy people to acquire media in developing countries.

Even places like lemmy or mastodon aren’t safe anymore. Everything that is public can be, and is, data mined by some corporation. There will be bot accounts or paid people pushing their agenda. And several other things.

It’s not a technical problem. We can have places that are better than the average, but the corporations will still put their tentacles in.

The weird thing for me is that by paying to use, you will need to be uniquely identified, and that opens doors for losing privacy in several ways. How is that addressed by kagi?

The incredible thing about these articles is that they don’t make the slight mention of lemmy.

That one linked is a well written summary of what happened, but it’s partial if they don’t include the migration that happened, even if it wasn’t that big.

Lost it on “Windows with literally 0 issues” lol

With all the respect, to deny the progress we had in the last decade seems a bit stubbornish and counterproductive.

In the 2000s, uo to early 2010s, not even a basic non techy user could properly use linux without assistance, and nowadays, they can use it normally. Most of them just need a working browser and a good UI.

I don’t say that out of nowhere. I’ve been doing some work in initiatives for digital inclusion in my country, and we’re having great results with linux nowadays, while it was impossible some years ago.

There’s still a lot that needs improvement, but we’re nowhere near the state we were just one decade ago.

But a lot of things changed in these years. Installing software, for example, became so easy using the gnome store, that it lowered a lot the entry barrier.

The few times I find myself using windows, I realize it’s not easy to use, as many claim. I believe it’s mostly a matter of a computer culture that created around it, and changing cultural traits is really hard

I’m running lineage os on a 7-year-old phone, and I can confirm.

And without google tracking your used apps.

I like the idea too, but I’d prefer to wait and see what the official devs think about it, and if adding privacy measures is part of the roadmap. Lemmy is still too new and things are still unstable.

Assuming everything is public, on one hand, can help develop better practices, but, on the other, can lead us to stop fighting for our privacy, so I’m always cautious with it.

About the upvotes/downvotes, they give a lot of information about you, and your pattern can be so unique, that a new account could be identified by it. It can also be used for doxing. Having public votes can also lead to metadrama, just like happens in places like facebook with their like system. And don’t forget that it takes just a small mistake to have your identity leaked, and then you have this data available and tied to your person, exposing your psychological behavior and positions on every theme.

Another thing worth mentioning is the email used to join lemmy. This is basically public, eliminating the expected anonymity from a lot o people (remember, most people aren’t tech-savy enough to create a fake one). In time, bots and trolls will become more common and most instances will probably ban fake or temporary emails, forcing the users to use real ones.

It all might not be a great issue now, when we’re small, but if we expect to grow, I think these things will need to be addressed at some point.

By seeying most reactions ro your post, I can only think that most lemmy users don’t care about privacy at all. Or, at least, didn’t fully understand the implications.

I can see where you came from. We can’t expect to be free from powerful corporations without some sort of tradeoff. However, in this particular case, I prefer my upvotes to be private, so I don’t feel like I have any incentive to hit that button again. I will only read and comment from now on, because my comments and posts are what I expect to be public.

Well, the good thing is that we have the option to refrain from voting. But this information isn’t easily available to new users.

To be fair, I don’t feel comfortable with that. I believe people are so excited about ditching reddit, that they’re in denial about any possible flaw or inconvenience about lemmy.

I hope future updates bring more privacy to the users.

66.6%? Looks like even satan has left reddit.