Curiosity is a great onboarding tool. But there is an even better one: pain.

Apple was started by two guys in a garage. We can build something better.

On desktop yes, on mobile it’s bit slow for me

Snort on desktop is amazing, pwa seems slow and hangs on my phone, anything we can do about it? Or is it just me?

gm #coffeechain

breathing deeper will allow you to think bigger 🫶

Those who get tired of the BS will find their way here. We can't save everyone and a lot of people will wake up one day in terror of the hellscape they live-in. If you haven't piled into the lifeboat yesterday or at the latest now, you're going down with the Orwellian ship and you won't be able to get to the lifeboat. The exits are rapidly closing as we speak.

We can only point them in the right direction. They need to do their own personal journey to freedom like we all did at some point and break free of the conditioning, we can only give directions on how to get here. We can't do the journey for them or club them over the head with it as they will resist against our attempts to save them from themselves.

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On paper your statement is true. In reality it is very far from the truth. IMO

Apple is just a little reality hitting us in the face. Our own governments do it much more slowly, quietly and confusingly.

Like Satoshi did with BTC, build a better solution outside the current system or pay the price.

Apple is much more than a group of individuals. They are a country, government, and central bank all packaged as a company.

Also if you have an android phone you can make it sovereign your self

Should be possible as long as you control what’s on the device and not a mega-corp

🎯 and this situation helps to shine a light on it for people who may have not been aware, or were/are willing to make tradeoffs. Me maybe not anymore?

The pendulum is swinging, albeit slowly, but it’s moving.

Desktop is definitely more free, but my criticism also applies to Linux vs. everything else.

It’s not a criticism of the project or the people either. It’s a criticism of society that produces these corporate behemoths.

The world is just people. People’s behavior created these things.

I think that’s a point worth developing though. There is no “better option.” Google is not our friend, and buying an Android phone contributes directly to Googles bottom line, whether you put Graphene on it or not. It still signals to the market that Android sells phones and makes Google money.

There have been several attempts to make a compelling alternative and *every single one has failed*. The last example I even considered having a shot at success was Ubuntu Phone, and it’s dead.

PinePhone was never more than a tinkerer’s device.

There has to be a *compelling alternative* before it matters. Android is open source the same way Darwin is open source. Nobody actually uses it in an open fashion except some freaks like us. 99% of them are just using Google Play.

The open ecosystem will never have a chance until they produce something more compelling than the closed ones do. Openness is not enough for most people, and all we have to do is look at the current state of politics in most of the world for proof of that.

So so good

Of course 😂😂