That’s what I keep saying: Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom.

And the disease is that a majority of voting Americans are either morally bankrupt and gullible enough to overlook all that Trump did and said and elect him, or actively fascist.

And that’s why, when people tell me I need to “make space” for those people and give them an exit ramp, so that when Trump finally turns on them too, and they realize what they done did, the nation can heal and come back together, I say: fuck this shit.

I don’t want to make space for immoral morons and fascists. These people deserve what they’re about to get, and what they’ve inflicted on the rest of us who didn’t sell out, and they’ll never come back from the moral quagmire that made them think it’s a-okay to elect a fascist POTUS.

As dangerous as it is, it’s easier than Perl:

That’s the reason it won out.

Because you think this is new?

That’s what happens when Big Tech traps people in information silos and the media manufactures different fake realities depending on the bias of the particular billionaires who happens to own the outlets: people don’t share a common experience anymore and don’t have common facts to agree on.

As a result, everybody has their own truths from their own information bubbles and nobody know the actual facts anymore.

I suspect a lot of people use Facebook because they’ve always used Facebook - mostly older folks at this point - and a lot of the younger folks go there because their favorite association / football club / local restaurant / library are there too.

Meaning Facebook’s success today is mostly inertia: there’s no way any open-source replacement would pull a critical-enough mass of people away from Facebook to fight the inertia and enjoy any meaningful success. I’m pretty sure open-source developers know this and chose something fancier and more exciting to spend their time on.

Creating a Facebook replacement would be about as exciting as creating a Visual Basic replacement: millions of people still use VB, but nobody wants to touch a dying technology.

Facebook is like Myspace: it’s has-been. If I was a developers interested in contributing to the Fediverse, that’s the last social media I’d choose to spend my time reimplementing.

“It’s a race, a race to see who destroys who first. And it’s just really disgusting.”

Well, racists really are obsessed with races.

That’s the same reason why I gave Ubuntu Touch a go: CalyxOS going stale on my FP4. But I decided to buy an FP5 to give it a whirl and leave the FP4 alone, because I can’t really do without a reliable phone while I make sure the kinks are worked out.

That’s nice and all. But you’d better hope nothing happens to any of those Nazi yokels, because I guarantee you the minute one of them has so much as a single hair pulled out of his head, the Trump regime will use it as an excuse to launch a full-blown bloody wave of repression.

Sure why not:

• The UI is really quite polished. Honestly, it’s slicker than you imagine.

  There are weird quirk that you simply don’t encounter in Android, like the UI not really tailored for displays with rounded corners or with a camera in the top-middle blocking icons, or the side drag areas being too small for my taste. Or the keyboard’s haptic feedback seemingly not going away when you disable it, because there’s also a general touch haptic feedback that’s well-hidden in the settings menus, that you didn’t know about.

  All this is fixable with enough time and minor hackery, but it still requires time and hackery you don’t need in Android.

• I haven’t tried an external display. I have a computer for that.

• Waydroid - the Android emulation - is very slick and quite stable. Integration is quite good: when you install an Android app, it shows up in the UT menu immediately. Sometimes they show up twice: just refresh the menu by pulling down and the extra instance disappears. At least in my extremely well-supported Fairphone 5, there’s no issues with access to camera, networking, NFC… But the camera has a quirk: you have to open the native UT camera first, otherwise Android apps won’t be able to use the camera for some reason.

• Sharing files between UT and Android apps isn’t a thing natively, but you can download Waydroid helper apps to do that in the Openstore.

• If you want long-winded Android apps, you have to leave the window open. If you close it, the app stops if it was the only one running in Waydroid.

• There’s a thing called Libertine to run native desktop Linux apps in UT: I find it crashy at best. But it’s there.

• Most important apps like calls, SMS, browsing, emails are handled quite well by native UT apps. Other things like maps are handled by web apps, and while I intensely dislike web apps, I must say they work really well.

All of this is easy to live with if you’re willing and persistent enough. But if you want a phone that Just Works™ like most people do, this won’t cut it. That’s why I’m saying, Apple and Google have absolutely nothing to fear from Linux phones: most people aren’t willing to spend a tenth of the time I’m willing to spend on a quirky phone for the sake of principles.

More proof that AI ruins everything - if it was needed.

As an actual person who owns and operates an actual Linux phone that actually works as one of the best Linux phones you can get (Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch), I can guarantee you that neither Apple nor Google are losing a single second of sleep over this - much as I’d love that they quaked in their monopolistic corporate boots…

At this point, I’m convinced the motive for most of what the Trump regime does is gratuitous cruelty. Once you accept that explanation, all those motherfuckers do starts to make sense.

That’s nice but…

Here’s my experience with my Linux phone (Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 5): it’s fully functional and mostly usable as a full Android replacement. But the keyword here is “mostly”: The Openstore has native Linux replacement for half of the stuff I need (calls, SMS, emails, browser…) and for the rest, Waydroid picks up the slack (my Android-only banking app, Yubikey app…).

And then there’s stuff that’s neither available (or rather, working) in native Linux nor in Waydroid. And the killer app I desperately need, Signal, is in that group.

And that turns my promising Ubuntu Touch phone into a very fancy paperweight I mostly leave at home.

Here’s my prediction: the LibrePhone will be another paperweight for the same reason. And the sad thing is, it’s not for lack of trying on the part of the alternative OS and app makers, or lack of good will: they really do try their best. But it’s a chicken-and-egg problem: people don’t want to code for niche mobile OSes and stick to Android, and the niche mobile OSes remain niche as a result.

Unless the LibrePhone comes onto the market with a certain number of key apps that a vast majority of people will need, it’s doomed to fail right out of the gate.

Kash Patel lumping artists with terrorists in 3… 2… 1…

There aren’t fewer trans people - young or old: a lot of them simply choose to stay quiet in a dangerous reactionary fascist country.

“He was screaming out, ‘I want my mom, I want my mom. I’m dying, I want mom. I’m dying, I want mom,’” Billy recalls.

Aiden’s mom listened helplessly as he hadn’t hung up the phone yet.

I pity the poor woman who has to live with that moment in her memory for the rest of her life.

I wish he would start the war on X: the world would be a better place.

Hell, he’s already started the war on Tesla…

Is this moron still alive? We had been blessed with not hearing about him for some time… I guess the ket is wearing off.

Oh that’s really easy: AI isn’t brown.

Never underestimate the Americans’ capacity for racism. A lot of things in America can be explained by racism.