what I said in the first sentence - I am assuming we’re in an adversarial position. if I know you’re out to fuck with my shit, guess how much of my shit I’m gonna entrust you? the equivalent of junk mail.
now it’s possible them guys are good people and whatnot, but until that is established beyond a significant threshold, any and all such providers get zero of my trust up front.
nothing is confirmed here, chill with the high-fives
two issues with the thing. it necessitates buying shit, however inexpensive; woulda preferred repurposing existing hardware. and, it’s got practically no privacy baked in as it’s constantly blasting out your hardware ID; at least such was the state last time I took a look. the mentioned alternatives look good, I’ll check those out.
and were them IOUs written in cursive or block letters?
I know nothing about these services but intuitively this shit rings true:
same way how you don’t send “unsubscribe” proof-of-life to spammers, I’d stay the fuck away.
I automatically assume I’m in an adversarial position vs such a thing and don’t care what kinda shit they try to pull - they’re met with the full arsenal of privacy enhancing tools at my disposal.
as for me, an email provider that asks for no backup email or other verification methods can come useful in everyday life, thanks for mentioning them.
don’t like the email domain, the UX is nothing to write home about, and they’re obnoxious with the upsale pitch, but with a few tweaks here and there this can be useful for signups, transactional emails, and the like.
of all the shit out there, that’s what needed attention?!
very cool. would love eventually getting it on a phone that supports video out. none of those are available to me for cheap right now and/or don’t got support.
yeah I’m not watching half an hour of this amateur production spouting (based on 5 mins of skimming) obvious and bullshit takes
um using the household’s oven that’s used for food afterwards can’t possibly be safe
what works with my normie “what’s the big deal” is the following analogy:
this is akin to cleaning out your snowed-in driveway with a twin-engine afterburner from an F14 Tomcat - holy shit, it actually cleaned the thing! saved me a buncha time! and it cost pennies!
yeah, but:
TIL neocities is a thing
“hiding” implies something sinister - I ain’t got nothing to share. when you don’t know the quality and quantity of my morning stool, that ain’t something hidden from you, that’s something that ain’t shared with you.
it’s a false dichotomy, strawman fallacy, red herring, etc. all rolled into one, designed to keep you on your heels, defending yourself against baseless accusations.
I’m telling you how things are, you’re listing things you wished to be true. and that list will get accomplished by deus-ex-machinas, what’s the big deal… install it on a loose device you got and try using it for a day or two.
you don’t see what the big deal is? you’re in a UX that was tweaked and polished for decades, and you do it almost subconsciously, whilst walking, dodging pedestrians, doing other shit, etc. this thing is in its infancy and pretty far from usable by even tech people for everyday shit, let alone normies.
the apps aren’t handling the vertical UI gracefully or at all. like, plasma’s settings UI doesn’t collapse the categories so you can’t interact with it. Gnome’s toggle switches dropdowns only recently started reacting to touch. OSKs are now at least somewhat usable but still nothing compared to android keyboards. none of the navigation gestures you got muscle memory for work here. that’s just the system’s UI, before you even attempt to run apps that don’t know that 300% zoomed-in, vertical UI is a thing.
the stuff you mention are so far off on the things-to-fix list, might as well not be on it.
this is a glorious platform and I love using it; but people expecting this to be a replacement for android is bordering on delusion, no such thing exists nor is it really in the works.
T14 are a refresh from the T480; slightly more modern hardware and there are AMD versions. still durable, good build quality, more power efficient, and inexpensive as the market’s flooded with corpos ditching their old devices and switching to Newest & Best.
expandable, repairable with cheap parts that are somewhat cross-model/generation compatible, you can’t go wrong there. besides, it’s always good to be couple gens behind for the best linux hardware compatibility.
really glad to see someone finally making a distinction between pixels and the rest, had about enough with the graphene/pixel pushers. also didn’t know eOS (not typing up them slashes) has a web installer, albeit only for a handful of models; hopefully that will expand. eOS to lineageOS would be like ubuntu to debian, making the thing more useable for a newb and every stride in this direction helps.
I alternate between mobian and postmarketOS every coupla months, to be up to date on the state of it. I have a fast device, lotsa RAM, lotsa fast storage, switch regularly between various UIs (phosh, plasma mobile, etc)
“up to speed” is such a huge, immense, and moving target that I can’t fathom the funds and dev efforts needed to get there. e.g. the plasma team has their hands full with bringing desktop plasma up to speed - 6.6 was a gargantuan effort; when you throw the mobile UI in the mix, it makes the goal exponentially farther away.
when you consider that Linux-on-Phones (just had a mental flash of Russ Hanneman saying “Radio-on-Internet”) isn’t one thing, there’s a bunch of dev efforts, some on bare-metal, some halium based and the various UIs (gnome, phosh, plasma mobile, sxmo, etc) that all pull in different directions, solving the same thing independently, wasting time and dev efforts.
so this thing becoming an alternative to an OS that was worked on for close to two decades by the richest people on the planet - that simply isn’t on the horizon, becoming an android alternative is pretty far, far away.
now, if you think of this as your linux laptop with a touch interface in your pocket, you’re closer to what this thing is and can do.
mediateks don’t get lineageos, there’s like two models (out of 500+) that are supported
I’m saying I’m not gonna use it as an email provider, as in pen a love letter to to sydney sweeney, reminding her of the shit she promised me in my most recent dream and she’s kinda tardy so what’s up with that and so on.
I am gonna use it as a transactional email inbox, as in “you registered to yadda-yadda here’s shit you’re never gonna read”. and if in the process of using them it turns out they’re a buncha good folks, maybe I’ll elevate out reationship.
the trackings and whatnot are a) blocked by a buncha filters, b) gone when I close the tab with their url, c) they don’t get my PII, and d) they don’t get to store anything on my hardware.
way worse shit out there.