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  • lemmysmash@piefed.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.world•UK cinemas look at banning Meta smart glasses over piracy fearsEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I would never use that word as a disparaging term for people with developmental and cognitive disabilities, these folks don’t deserve derrogatory or depreciative namings, and I try to choose my words very carefully specifically so they would not look targeted towards people who don’t deserve them. If my poor phrasing is misunderstood and considered offensive towards this group of people, I would absolutely express my sincere apologies and rephrase it.

    However, I will not self-censor myself, and will continue to use it, as per sense 2 of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, to specifically highlight and ridicule the idiotic behaviour of certain individuals and groups of individuals that fully deserve it in my opinion (like those considering copyright infridgement a bigger offence than privacy infridgement, in this particular example).

  • lemmysmash@piefed.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Phone and OS RecommendationsEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Unfortunately, there’s no alternative to a GrapheneOS phone nowadays.

    • Linux phones: good privacy and good customization, but poor security, poor hardware support and poorish software support (e.g. android apps that require play verification)
    • iOS: good security, almost okayish privacy, but you basically don’t own your phone
    • Mainline Android: good compatibility, good hardware support, but poor to abysmal (depending on the make) security, poor to abysmal privacy, you almost don’t own your phone
    • Lineage OS / iodeOS / etc: goodish privacy, adequate support for a lot of hardware, control over your phone, but poorish security, poorish software support (e.g. android apps that require play verification), lack of hardware support (e.g. the very S21)
    • Fairphone & similar — they fall somewhere in the middle between mainline Android and LineageOS stuff — better privacy than mainline, more flexibility than mainline, but still dependency on Google whims, and poorish security.

    That said, IMO there are two directions:

    • Pixel phone (or Motorola in the future) + GrapheneOS — good software but new meh hardware —
    • Current phone, maximally decrapped (ideally, almost everything but very core services disabled, e.g. via universal debloater or manually via adb) — much more private than mainline Android, relatively stable and with at least some baseline security + critical security patches from the OEM

    Great OS comparison (Android-based only): https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm