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Plenty of people who (I assume) are smarter than Trump don't understand that FOSS refers to freedom, not price. It's not a very good term and I don't like how widely used it is now.

The one that says that Android is Linux therefore every Android device is a Linux phone (or tablet, etc).

This is often dismissed as a technicality but as every thread on so-called "mobile Linux" demonstrates, so-called "Linux phones" are judged basically on how well they can run Android crapware... just as "desktop Linux" is more or less judged solely on how well it can run Windows apps. Unlike Windows, however, Android is open source(-ish) and already a Linux operating system.

Most people who want to "switch to Linux" don't actually care about Linux, they just want Windows that doesn't suck. I imagine most people who want "mobile Linux" similarly want a non-sucky Android... which actually exists, unlike Windows.

If what you want is "Mobile Linux that can run Android apps" go install GrapheneOS or LineageOS or whatever.

This is not so much an "ActivityPub problem" as it is just how things work when you move something from point A to point B. You can't unsend an email (or physical mail) or untell a secret.

The idea that you can just delete something on a whim is an illusion created by the centralized silo networks, and it's not even true those cases as it's generally a soft delete, and archived by other means anyway.

A human using a browser feature/extension you personally disapprove of does not make them a bot. Once your content is inside my browser I have the right to disrespect it as I see fit.

Not that I see much value in "AI summaries" of course - but this feels very much like the "adblocking is theft" type discourse of past years.

"linux phone"

Don't make me tap the sign

Thunderbird and Firefox are developed by separate companies (both under the Mozilla Foundation). Thunderbird is funded through donations. Firefox is funded through (among other sources, such as Pocket and advertisements) the Google search deal. As far as I know it's not legally feasible (or even possible) for the Firefox money to go to Thunderbird or vice versa.

Linux is the kernel, so the userspace is irrelevant. And I'm not sure what the exact amount of Linux you can change before it is no longer Linux, but it's Linux enough to run entire desktop environments.

Disagree - making it harder to ship proprietary blob crap "for Linux" is a feature, not a bug.

I just think it's worth to keep in mind that the most widely used smartphone OS already is a Linux... especially since people who want so called "real Linux phones" end up wanting to run Android crapware on them anyway.

If you want a Linux phone that can run Android apps, they are very plentiful. You can even run so-called Linux applications including entire desktop environments. Android is very much not a "fake Linux."

(That is not to say I have no interest in non-Android Linuxes, I just don't think it's worth switching just so you can claim to run "real Linux")

Framing this as a problem specific to open source implies that proprietary applications are inherently more trustworthy. Regardless, the reason to use free software is so you can have the four freedoms, not necessarily because it is easier to audit.

Yes, pre-NT Windows actually was DOS. Windows 95 was MS-DOS 7.0.

This is strikingly similar to an account on reddit that has been posting variations of some LLM-generated screed about the supposed problem of trust in open source. I wonder what the end goal of this is.