chrome can use their dominant market position to kill all other competing browsers, then they can use their monopoly to kill addons and extensions they don’t like, slow down or break webpages which go against their interests, and so on.

google having a near-complete monopoly on the web scares me more than most issues in tech

thanks, i wasn’t aware of the specifics :3

the sliding stuff generally wasn’t a problem unless you buried your phone in sand or something, that would probably make the slide a bit gritty, but it was fine otherwise

the keyboards back in the day were generally dustproof, yes, with only the gap between the keyboard and the rest of the phone being an issue. the keys weren’t like the keys on a laptop, generally, they were more like buttons under a solid plastic sheet, that’s how they kept it from gettng dirty!

Fuck off, either ban me or don’t. Censoring my opinions about activism is as gatekeeping as it comes.

I’m not going to stop telling people that boycotts, without clear goals, targets, and an actual structured organized effort are a waste of time, because they are.

Boycotts as part of an organized movement with a clear target and goal are worthwhile.

Slacktivism, like petitions and individuals boycotting things, just absorb time and energy from real activist efforts.

If you want to stop wasting time and energy arguing about it, then be the change you want to see in the world. I am not going to stop pushing for real change.

Today’s boycotter becomes tomorrow’s person who gives up on the boycott because that’s just how boycotts are. They are not generally effective as a standalone tool. That is just a fact.

Yes, absolutely! Thank you very much for sharing the link.

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the problem is systemic, it’s not limited to just Musk or Trump, or just American corporations. Boycotting corporations without a clear target, a clear goal, and active organization efforts, is just a waste of time for everyone involved. All you will accomplish is move some money from one capitalist to another, nothing more.

The ruling class are very happy if you choose to boycott, because they know it, just as well as I do. The revolution will not be televised. The boycotts are getting press coverage. You should consider why.

boycotts can work if they’re targeted, have clear goals, and comprise part of an organized effort, but as a standalone tool, they are very rarely effective.

boycotts, like petitions and elections, are generally slacktivism - participate if you want to, and they can be helpful, but if those are the only things you are doing, then you’re not doing enough.

i’m not sure i’d call it “least effective” while petitions still exist :p

you’re totally right on everything else though!

i didn’t say it didn’t matter, I said it’s harm reduction. that’s totally worth voting for.

but even if everyone voted, it wouldn’t fix any of the major systemic problems we have.

the oppression and exploitation of the working class is inevitable under capitalism. it is impossible to vote to end capitalism.

the fact you’re being distracted from something that would actually work - organizing, unionizing, real activism efforts - by elections, is why i call them circuses.

the main purpose of elections is to give us a false feeling of political influence and power.

we have real power, but only when we work together and withhold our labor.

our power does not derive from our vote, or how we spend money. our power comes from our labor, and our ability to withhold it.

imagine if all of us, collectively, just refused to work for capitalism anymore, and instead, we worked only for the mutual benefit of our fellow workers. some of us would produce food, some of us would repair vehicles and machinery, some of us would provide education, healthcare, childcare, and so on. and we could collectively withhold all of these from the ruling class.

that is how we end capitalism. that is what I consider revolution to be. but we NEED to work together, and stop getting distracted by shit that barely achieves anything.

you should definitely vote, but voting is really mostly harm reduction - the system is designed to work for the benefit of the ruling class.

you’ve probably heard the term “bread and circuses” - elections are our circuses.

the rich and powerful control the state. we cannot vote our way out of capitalism for that reason.

oh sorry! sometimes i struggle with sarcasm online :p

solidarity!

Great, now you need to take a look at some of the links I posted to learn about what I mean by organizing.

Individual acts of sabotage offer little more than a fleeting sense of revenge, which may admittedly be all that keeps you sane on a bad day at work. But for a real feeling of collective empowerment, there’s nothing quite like direct action by a large number of disgruntled workers to make your day.

you’re misinterpreting that list, it is not exhaustive - it’s a list of banking apps which someone has tried and updated the list. the lack of a specific country or bank on that list doesn’t mean it doesn’t work, it means nobody has tested it, or nobody has added it to the list, at least

The bank doesn’t need to manually support GrapheneOS, the app just needs to behave appropriately - which, as you can see from that list, the overwhelming majority of them do.

If my bank stops supporting it, then I will move banks. But I doubt it will ever really become an issue.

i’m a person with bills to pay, but if i paid those bills by endangering people, i’d be a bad person.

corporations exist to protect people from the financial and legal repercussions of their business activity.

they should not exist, and so, I will celebrate if Mozilla goes into bankruptcy.

we do not need them. control of firefox should be in the hands of a not-for-profit group, not a company.