Basic documentation does not equal open source.

Toaster ovens from 40 years ago did better. They came with a technical diagram.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HOKo-aITorw

https://youtube.com/shorts/XC-2X9eu_9g

I would encourage you to read up on the research. Pre verbal babies absolutely demonstrate moral behaviour. As do many animals.

I also did not say Christianity was peaceful. It certainly was just as violent as Islam during the middle ages when they were at the peak of their expansionist periods.

The most peaceful human societies are the ones where religion has the least impact. You are correct that it is not the only factor. Systemic Violence will find its way anywhere where inequality is being exploited.

Whether it is religion based like with Christian nationalism in the West, Islamic forced conversions of children in West Africa, or Jewish settler colonialism in Palestine.

Or, if religion is not playing a significant role, like with resource exploitation, imperialism or illicit substance trade.

The difference is that religion most often used to convince moral people that the bad things they are asked to participate in, are in fact good things, where with the latter, they usually know they are doing bad things, but feel they have no other choice.

All social animals demonstrate the capacity and preference formorality. 6 month old toddlers demonstrate it before even understanding religion and complex language.

You are peaceful because of our biological social programming and evolution selecting for it over thousands of generations, not because rules written down in a book by some person.

Only humans commit violence in the name of religion. Its not the only reason, but its a very common one. Its a very effective way to reprogram our inherit morality and to get good people to think that bad things are good.

It is certainly empowering them. Same way Islam is empowering Iran and Christianity is empowering the far right in America.

There are peaceful people despite those religions, but not because of them. Our peaceful and cooperative nature comes from our biology and societies.

All the Abrahamic religions are violent and oppressive and no one wants to combat it either.

If he keeps to his Oath, he can swear on whatever book he wants.

Maybe that is why US politicians lie so much, the bible is the problem /s

Personally if I ever need to take an oath, I am doing it on a copy of the 7 tenets of the Satanic Temple.

That or Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

Only if corporations lose all rights as individuals in Law.

This is the way.

Its not just GM, but their are certainly a good example of Enshitification.

But its very unfamiliar for people coming from Windows. That said, ZorinOS does a very good job of reworking it to look and act like Windows, KDE, cinnamon or previous versions of Gnome.

Yes the debt trap is a myth. The rest of it is true.

Damn, I keep forgetting that the iphone X was already 5 years ago. 10 years ago then. There has been so little improvements in phones in the ladt 5 years, it all just blurs together.

I think the point is, we used to have phones that were 9mm+ thick. Iphone 4s and iphone 5c from Apple and Samsung Galaxy S3 and motorola G phones were all that thickness. They even had replacable batteries and expandable storage. Some of those were even waterproof despite all of that.

I think the main driver of impractical thinness has been marketing, planned obselecence and cost savings.

You are probably correct that the Trump government is returning to the “good old days”, so I concede that point around their current policies.

The predominant strategy from the US and China has been to leverage corruption in regional governments to obtain control of strategic assest like ports, transport hubs, mineral resouces etc, and then place those assets under the control of a few party adjacent corporations. Thus they extract those resources over local companies in the region. After making sure that the local politcal elite gets their miniscule cut of course.

Economic neocolonialism. Far less shooting and a lot more wealth extraction from a country.

But their thickness can accomidate todays cameras.

No thicker than very popular and successful phones from just 5 years ago. They can use the extra space for a larger battery, so they dont have to nerf performance to maintain stability in older phones. They can also use the space to restore repairability.

But probably not for a folding phone, since making both sides that thick will probably be too much.

I was referring to the last 35 years. Before then the US strategy was different. Their tactics are different now. China also made the same change.

I think there is a strategy in what you are pointing out.

For the general public, its not that we should advocate for the use of software, but for the use of a package of hardware+software.

People dont say they want iOS or MacOS or even Windows. They say they want an iPad, Macbook or ASUS Strix Laptop. The software is not a primary consideration for them.

The Steam Deck is the prime example. Its about making the package attractive.

If we can do things like have Bazzite make a deal with Steam for “Steam Machine” accreditation, that can be packaged and marketed to be sold by the hardware vendors. Probably starting with the gaming system integrators.

We need a similar brand and package for general purpose users, but I dont know what the set of hooks would be to make it marketable. Maybe its right to repair, maybe 10 years of software support. Maybe a 10 year warranty. Something the community still needs to figure out. Linux Mint is probably one of the most suitable for this package.

People are making legal arguments, so I pointed out the flaw in it.

Morally and strategically, the US is a neocolonial power just like China and Russia. China and the US is probably at the same level of exploitation with their methods being economic in nature. Russian being worse given they like to foster internal conflcit in order to keep their resource exploitation in place.

Also, Nigeria has had a democratic government since 1999. The last coup was in 1993. So it would not be fair to infer they are a puppet government of the US. There are other examples of that.

Like most countries in Africa, they have been burdened by a legacy of colonial exploitation that has left them vulnerable to exploitation by commercial interests and islamic religious imperialism.

As usual the good guys are the innocents in the middle just wanting to live and let live.

And it is my solemn duty to respond by saying I am very jelous of your deminishing ass.

Congrats!